The Center for Digital Resilience (CDR) aims to improve the security of at-risk civil society in East and Southeast Asia through the adoption of a widely used ticketing and threat analysis platform that coordinates the work of digital security help desks and alert networks globally. The project carefully expands on existing networks to bring this critical region into a system that maps and identifies digital attack trends, shares threat intelligence, and coordinates warning systems. As the procurement of dangerous spyware is spreading among authoritarian governments, the project will help coordinate the tracking and mediation of digital threats targeting activists, journalists, and human rights defenders in East and Southeast Asia while connecting the region to a global tracking system.
During the first year of the project, CDR will work with OTF-supported digital security partners with deep connections to civil society in Tibet, Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Cambodia, and Malaysia. They will create context-specific versions of their ticketing and threat analysis platform that both build on the organization’s own internal capacity to track and mitigate dangerous threats, while also connecting them to other at-risk civil society organizations globally.
Throughout the second year, these partners will expand their reach by surveying threats facing smaller organizations in their communities. They will provide ongoing rapid response for these organizations with the assistance of an international network of expert service providers. This threat data will be fed into the global system, further contributing to the mapping and alert system.
