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We want everyone to benefit from the tools and technologies that have helped globalize our world. Modern-day slavery, human trafficking and the slave trade is also global and leaves no corner of the world untouched. Our fight against it should be just the same, globalized and leaving nothing behind.
Survivors Connect is an organization that works to build global advocacy & support networks of survivors and activists working to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. We use innovative instruments such as social media and connective technologies to empower and enhance protection, prosecution and prevention efforts.
Our mission is to empower the survivor and activist, advocate the movement and network to build a globalized response to modern-day slavery and human trafficking using the power of technology.
We’re a global group of technology experts, researchers, activists, survivors and organizations working to develop a holistic understanding and response to modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Our team researches the latest tools in social networking, mobile and web technology and innovations in campaigns and uses them to strengthen anti-trafficking efforts, networks, build community resilience against slavery and improve our responses to combating slavery. With new, free and open source technologies emerging globally, we work together to find ways these can be used to reduce trafficking, support anti-trafficking efforts and empower survivors and activists to advocate.
Our approach:
Survivors Connect works with governments, universities, international and domestic organizations, community groups and individuals around the world. Together we work to identify innovative research, best practices in anti-trafficking and apply new technologies that can enhance programs for survivors, campaigns and collaborative action. By connecting activists and survivors through the web, we create an open, transparent and influential dialogue for advocacy. Our aim is to build the capacity of individuals to become advocates with a collective and powerful voice. Our goal is to end slavery and to see a world of survivors and activists made more powerful and effective in their efforts through the use technology.
We believe that social media and technology are important to international development and serve as useful tools for anti-trafficking movements as they navigate through an increasingly challenging environment. Our team at Survivors Connect is constantly networking with groups to learn where problems exist, and offer ideas and solutions that can help. Users of our site also have access to our global network to share ideas and collaborate.
To learn about our various projects check, explore our links to the left.
We’re all about efficiency here! Survivors Connect is a non-partisan all-volunteer collaboration between software developers, designers, academics, survivors, advocates and other professionals working to build a transnational advocacy network. We’re all unified behind the belief that we can bring slavery and trafficking to an end in our lifetime by working in a collaborative and transparent manner.
How do we know its working?
We are committed to consistently and thoroughly evaluating our projects based on our team members and local and technical experts. We gather ethnographic data to write case studies with the aim of improving their effectiveness, identifying what works/does not, and profiling best practices in anti-trafficking.
Interested? Explore our website to learn more!
Can’t find what you are looking for? Email us at hello@survivorsconnect.org
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