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+title: Reaching People Where They Are
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Reaching People Where They Are
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Part of the Tor Projects mission is to further
the popular understanding of privacy technologies, and we believe we
can achieve it by combining educational efforts with usability efforts. Popular
understanding is to not only be aware of such privacy technologies but to also
be able to use and control them.
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With that in mind, we decided to integrate user experience
research into our digital security training with a single program called
User Feedback Program.
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When we first launched this program two years ago, we aimed
at a diverse and engaged audience of human rights defenders in the Global
South. We are happy to share that, in a moderate estimate, these
activities reached an audience of 800 people through 71 activities in 22 cities
and seven countries: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, Indonesia, Kenya,
Uganda.
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This was our first major effort to establish a training
cycle aimed to strengthen and expand the understanding of privacy technologies
and the https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/global-south;>Tor
community in the Global South. Members of the UX and Community teams
conducted these trainings in partnership with local non-profits, who helped us
reach the communities from their countries who needed this type of education
the most.
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The results of interviews and usability tests were processed
and analyzed by our UX team, and their work with users has led to different
projects: a collection of personas to help guide our decisions when working on
our tools, interface improvements, bugs fixed, and new features already
deployed by the Tor Project developers. We are proud to say that today, the Tor
Project has a software development cycle that puts the user at the center while
respecting privacy.
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That is a huge gain, but is not all we set out to do. We
learned a lot running these trainings, and we dont want to keep it to
ourselves. We also want to share some insights into our experiences running
trainings in the Global South to empower others to do the same. We know we
cant scale if
