NOTE: This repositorry is a work in progress.

TechUp TechUp is a collaborative space uniting capacity building and social participation to build better and safer digital societies. TechUp is designed to create meaningful impact into society that will translate into new digital policies in government. TechUp is a TIOF Strategic project that works towards enabling a conducive environment for Digital Rights, comprised of a number of different activities.

Programmers are the next generation of Rights defenders.

How do we engage them in a meaningful and effective way? How can we bring together the tech community to become the agents of change that digital societies need right now?

For all information about TechUp, check our presentation.

Summary of Activities

• Design, produce and run the TechUp comunity and its events
• Manage the FOSS fund
• Generate opportunities for the audience to make a positive impact in digital societies

Outcomes

• Enable technologists as next generation of Rights defenders
• Encourage the adoption of technology among civil society
• Facilitate the transition of technologists into a career in civil society
• Support FOSS projects to develop and grow

TechUp Library

You can access the list of past TechUp events and related activities and capacity building in the TechUp Library.

See more about our mission, vision and values in the wiki.

By participating in TechUp you also confirm to abide by its Code of Conduct.

Contributing

Quick Links to the project's different needs:

A simple and very quick way to support us is Staring the repo if you like what we are building. This will open the doors to us to crowdfunding platforms such as Open Collective.

Opened Issues (Stage: Ready)	Position descriptions	Features under consideration (Stage: Not Ready)
Want to contribute? We have tasks ranging from code to UX/UI or requests for advice. Review open Issues.	Interested in joining the Project Lockdown community? Explore the positions we have available.	While we put in place a publicly accessible Roadmap, you can find out the ideas that are brewing.

(Note: We are currently adding Issues covering from code to positions and other needs. Stay tune thourough the next days!)