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About

Jaaklac researches and advocates for Critical Digital Education. We believe that this knowledge must be free, accessible, built from collaboration, care and recognition of our diversities to transform us towards fairer societies.

Our international governance closes gaps in knowledge in the digital age with a Council, Committee and Community. We have a special focus on overlooked groups representing the Global Majority, such as women, LGBTQI+, children, youth, afro, indigenous, rural, poor and people with disabilities.

In 2024, the Jaaklac Community was created to formalise collaborative processes and develop actions from broader perspectives. The Community actions were iterated with the Jaaklac Intentions for different projects to keep, change and try.

We started in 2020 and are a non-formal organisation with an international scope from Latin America. The initiative is based on volunteering and funds for projects limited in time. Projects are coordinated with youth, educators and civil society organisations.

More information about Jaaklac and its Principles for Collaboration and Coexistence

Projects


Research

We use Participatory Action Research (PAR) to change social reality through quality education in the digital age. We break monopolies through knowledge in action.

We explore reality by exchanging roles between those who research, those who learn and those who teach. We design processes in which the problematisation of societies fosters knowledge and reconversion towards fairer systems.

We open the black box, decoding the personalisation of media, especially by elevating traditionally invisible and oppressed voices in the development of solutions.


Education

We recognise teaching and learning processes outside formal or private spaces by the different actors involved in the full development of digital societies.

We develop a digital education focused on critical thinking towards traditional power structures, human rights in their broad spectrum, and participation to foster democracies and the environment.

We engage in dialogue and co-create in our hybrid Oficinas (workshops) to Share, Learn and Do! better global digital societies. We continue asynchronous digital learning, in blogs, podcasts and activity notes.


Community

We include different sectors and disciplines, within and outside the Jaaklac Community (local, regional or international). The CDE reuses and builds resources together with diverse stakeholders.

We build the CDE based on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We are especially inclusive of overlooked perspectives and those with the greatest negative impacts of the issues to be addressed.

We share work and learning through feminist approaches, across languages, time zones, low technologies and lack of internet access to manifest more equitable (digital) societies.


Advocacy

We advocate to close the learning gaps that amplify social injustices in the digital age. Digital education has focused on teaching with digital technologies and skills for the technology sector job market.

We spread the word about our processes and results to amplify a global movement materialising quality education in freer digital societies under Creative Commons 4.0 licenses.

We elevate CDE by openly sharing our research tools, tools and results in academic and non-academic media, such as social networks, blogs and podcasts.


Share, Learn and Do!

Get to know the different Projects, Alies and Lessons Learnt. Support us to strengthen and expand the intentions and work of the Community with your resources, knowledge, creativity and drive. Join our global actions bridging digital divides for social justice.

Resources

Internet governance

Data governance

Understanding the web

Community empowerment

Accessibility and inclusion

Contact

If you are interested:

  • in establishing collaborations with JAAKLAC

  • obtaining more information about the initiative

  • learning more about a particular project

Write to: jallalla [at] jaaklac [dot] org.

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Blog

Here is JAAKLAC’s Blog in which we share our different outlooks on various topics of interest.