Sponsor 9

Project Title - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights

Project Period: December 1, 2017 - December 31, 2020

Project Goals/Activities

Summary - implement an intervention in support of activists and others fighting for their rights under repressive and unstable regimes. This intervention will specifically target organizers on the ground in Colombia, Kenya, and Uganda and provide training on how to use the Tor Network through desktop and mobile devices in order to communicate anonymously and securely.

Objective 1: Eliminate censorship barriers that prevent agents of change from influencing political, civic, social, and environmental discourse, organization, and activism via the Internet.

Goal 1.1: Empower agents of change to circumvent censorship blocks to Internet access. Goal 1.2: As censorship blocks evolve, empower impacted groups to impel corresponding updates in anti-censorship technologies.

Objective 2: Empower agents of change to act against corruption and abuses of human rights and safety when and where they are observed, through publication, activism, whistle-blowing, and reporting, irrespective of physical location.

Goal 2.1: Provide access to secure, untraceable communications in places where censorship of mobile web access and app usage is increasing.

Objective 3: Reduce the technological barriers that isolate marginalized individuals and cultural and civic groups,including women and other historically oppressed groups, from actively participating in broad dialouges about peace-building and situational improvement.

Goal 3.1: Increase awareness of Tor as a means for marginalized and oppressed groups to avert imposed barriers to online access.

Goal 3.2: Reframe Tor as a user-friendly consumer product, not tool just for technologists.

Objective 4: Reduce opportunities for oppressive actors to identify, locate, physically or digitally attack, and persecute agents of change.

Goal 4.1: Empower agents of change to avert online surveillance and to communicate as anonymously as they wish.

Objective 5: Empower vulnerable individuals to safely and securely communicate, organize, share resources, and express opinions using Internet resources without fear of retaliation or recrimination due to negative surveillance.

Goal 5.1: Cultivate a general understanding of online threat models and risks related to oppressive surveillance.

Goal 5.2: Empower vulnerable groups to freely connect, learn, and engage online without fear of identification, retaliation, or recrimination.

Goal 5.3: Reduce technological barriers to safe, secure communications.

Project Tracking

Tickets related

Component: Applications/Tor Browser (10 matches)

Ticket	Summary	Status	Owner	Keywords	Priority
#24918	Help users finding the new circuit display	closed	tbb-team	ux-team, TorBrowserTeam201808	Very High
#18867	Ship auto-updates for Tor Browser nightly channel	assigned	boklm	tbb-rbm, boklm201910, tbb-update, TorBrowserTeam201912	High
#27485	Onboarding: user not taught *how* to open the security-slider dialog	closed	tbb-team	tbb-8.0-issues, tbb-onboarding, ux-team, tbb-8.5, TorBrowserTeam201903	High
#27511	Add New identity button to toolbar	closed	tbb-team	ux-team, tbb-newnym, tbb-9.0-must-alpha, TorBrowserTeam201910R	High
#28800	Implement New Identity functionality for Tor Browser on Android	needs_information	tbb-team	tbb-mobile, tbb-newnym, ux-team, TBA-a3, tbb-8.5, tbb-parity, TorBrowserTeamTriaged, fenix-migration	High
#29768	Introduce new features to users in Tor Browser	closed	tbb-team	TorBrowserTeam201904R, tbb-8.5-must-alpha	High
#30570	Implement per-site security settings support	assigned	pospeselr	ux-team, tbb-9.5, TorBrowserTeam201912	High
#28187	Change Tor Circuit display icon to an onion	closed	tbb-team	tbb-usability, ux-team, TorBrowserTeam201811R	Medium
#28628	Introduce New Security Settings to users	closed	dunqan	ux-team, TorBrowserTeam201903R, tbb-8.5	Medium
#32475	Reduce the number of locales we provide updates for in nightly	closed	boklm	tbb-rbm, tbb-update, TorBrowserTeam201911R, ux-team	Medium
Component: Community/Translations (1 match)
Ticket	Summary	Status	Owner	Keywords	Priority
#25643	QA and language review within context	closed	emmapeel		Medium
Component: Internal Services/Service - git (2 matches)
Ticket	Summary	Status	Owner	Keywords	Priority
#31224	Create new repository for Training Materials	closed	tor-gitadm		Medium
#31486	Create a new repository for User Research	closed	tor-gitadm		Medium
Component: UX/Research (10 matches)
Ticket	Summary	Status	Owner	Keywords	Priority
#27010	2018 UX Research	closed	nyinz	ux-team	Medium
#27117	Usability Research: Onions - Uganda	closed	nyinz	ux-team	Medium
#27119	Usability Testing: Support Portal	assigned	antonela	ux-team	Medium
#27742	Usability Research: Onions Mombasa, Kenya	closed	nyinz	ux-team	Medium
#27743	Usability Research: Circuit Display - Mombasa, Kenya	closed	nyinz	ux-team	Medium
#27744	Usability Research: Circuit Display: Nairobi (group 1)	closed	nyinz	ux-team	Medium
#27745	Usability Research: Circuit Display: Nairobi (group 2)	closed	nyinz	ux-team	Medium
#27747	Usability Research: Onions - Nairobi (group 1)	closed	nyinz	ux-team	Medium
#28088	User Needs Discovery: Kenya	closed	nyinz	ux-team	Medium
#28626	Usability Research: Circuit Display - Uganda	closed	nyinz	ux-team	Medium
Component: Webpages/Website (7 matches)
Ticket	Summary	Status	Owner	Keywords	Priority
#21222	Main ticket for website redesign project	assigned	isabela	ux-team,	Very High
#24133	community.torproject.org work	assigned	pili	ux-team,	Medium
#25637	sitemap for torproject.org	closed	isabela	ux-team,	Medium
#25638	Design mocks for torproject.org	closed	antonela	ux-team,	Medium
#25640	coding torproject.org	closed	hiro	ux-team,	Medium
#25641	content for torproject.org	closed	isabela	ux-team,	Medium
#25642	translation of torproject.org	closed	emmapeel	ux-team, l10n	Medium
Component: Webpages/Webtools (1 match)
Ticket	Summary	Status	Owner	Keywords	Priority
#31965	dev portal git repo and lektor instance	new	hiro		Medium