computer science

Tactical Technology Collective

Tactical Technology Collective is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tactical Technology Collective rather than just read about it. In short: Tactical Technology Collective (or Tactical Tech) is an international nongovernmental organization that engages with citizens and civil society organisations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. As of 2014, the organisation is based in Berlin with two staff including co-founder and executive director Stephanie Hankey.

Key takeaways

Tactical Technology Collective belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Tactical Technology Collective to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Tactical Technology Collective from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Tactical Technology Collective (or Tactical Tech) is an international nongovernmental organization that engages with citizens and civil society organisations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. As of 2014, the organisation is based in Berlin with two staff including co-founder and executive director Stephanie Hankey.

Key projects Events including Summer Source Camp, an open source workshop, held in Croatia (2003), Africa Source, open source workshop, held in Namibia (2004) and Uganda (2006) and Asia Source, a series of three open source camps held in Bangalore, India (2005), in Sukabumi, Indonesia (2007) and in Silang in the Philippines (2009). '10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action', a 50-minute film (2009) that shows "how social justice organizations in the Global South use everything from Google Earth to Facebook in their campaigns." NGO-in-a-Box (2005) provided free and open source software to nonprofit organizations. Security in-a-box (2008–2019) was created with Front Line Defenders to help people stay safe and secure online. Me and My Shadow (2011–2018) helped people identifying ways their devices and accounts are emitting information. Data Detox Kit (2016–present) The organization also creates digital security training curriculum modules.

The Glass Room The Glass Room was launched in 2016 with the Mozilla Foundation as an art installation that helped demonstrate the importance of privacy and security. Installations of the exhibit have included:

The White Room Berlin (2016) The Glass Room New York (2016) The Glass Room London (2017) The Glass Room San Francisco (2019)

See also Electronic Frontier Foundation Open Knowledge Foundation

References

External links Official site

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tactical Technology Collective

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tactical Technology Collective claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tactical Technology Collective before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tactical Technology Collective ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tactical Technology Collective

In research: Tactical Technology Collective appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tactical Technology Collective in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tactical Technology Collective is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Citizen media, Communications and media organisations based in Germany, Free and open-source software organizations, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tactical Technology Collective outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Tactical Technology Collective in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Tactical Technology Collective means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Tactical Technology Collective out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Tactical Technology Collective in simple terms?

Why does Tactical Technology Collective matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Tactical Technology Collective?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Tactical Technology Collective.