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THANK YOU! Global Community - Critical Digital Educación

01.03.2026 | Author: Soledad Magnone

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“Jaaklac 2025 Community & Collaborations. Jaaklac iniciativa”

We are sharing a report summarising Jaaklac’s 2025 activities, and our Community members' experiences, and ideas for next actions. The field of digital human rights is being defunded, attacked and discredited through various mechanisms. At this time, it is even more important to spread the knowledge about digital technologies and the collective actions that facilitate fairer societies. We hope that Jaaklac’s Critical Digital Education is an inspiration and that together we can foster a better future for all.

Jaaklac’s 2025 Community & Collaborations

Jaaklac has remained as a fully volunteer-based organisation for a consecutive third year. This has been difficult to sustain. Nevertheless, we have been able to bolster our knowledge with amazing people and organisations from around the world.

Access our Jaaklac 2025 Community report and resources. We used our online workshops to Share Jaaklac’s experiences on Critical Digital Education; to Learn about our Community’s work and perspectives; and to Do! collective actions on topics that move diverse individuals and organisations from around the world.

Jaaklac’s activities opened the door for learning spaces and resources with a total of 19 people registered among the Community, Committee, and Council. Together, we searched for funding, coordinated CDE workshops, and outreached our actions on social media campaigns.

Jaaklac’s 2025 Community was mobilised to bridge knowledge gaps stemming from the intersections between digital human rights, community technology, deceptive design, wellbeing, and gender.

  • At the bottom of this article you will find podcasts and blogs imprinting these perspectives.

Reflections and Ideas for a better Community programme

We asked our second cohort of the Jaaklac Community about the programme’s main strengths and areas for improvement. We received a total of 5 responses from 10 Community members registered. The geographical perspectives included people from Mexico, Ecuador, Taiwan, Finland, Colombia, India, and Peru. Below is a summary of the responses representing different contributions.

1. What do you consider to be Jaaklac’s main contributions?

A diverse and passionate Community that fosters meaningful dialogue on a topic that is often overlooked.

Critical Digital Education from the perspective of the Global Majority, enriched with contributions from people from different geographies.

Establishing clear principles of collaboration and fostering a community culture based on justice, well-being, and decoloniality.

An international community that has been formed over the past few years and the impact it generates.

I feel very fortunate to be part of the Community.

2. What were the strengths and limitations of our Jaaklac Community and Collaborations programme?

a. Strengths

The generosity of those who participated and the perspectives represented, which enriched the conversations and learning.

Not being defined by a funder or rigid guidelines so that experimentation could take place.

Structured monthly workshops with a consistent SHARE-LEARN-DO design. A member-centred approach that encourages autonomy and co-creation.

Maintaining consistent sessions and different forms of interaction with limited resources.

b. Limitations

Conflicting personal and professional commitments. Participation is entirely voluntary, which limits the depth of collaboration over time.

The lack of funding makes those of us in the Global Majority precarious, with no time to contribute more meaningfully.

The long duration of the project requires sustained commitment. The small size of the Community limits its potential reach and impact.

The English language, as I do not have sufficient command of it to understand it fully, and the schedules of the video calls.

3. How can we improve our community activities?

Activities should be structured more deliberately to provide concrete value to participants. Focus primarily on activities that are worth investing time in, rather than updates.

More publicity for activities, as there are very interesting blogs, podcasts and reflections.

Create pairings between members of different topics to encourage collaboration and reduce isolation.

Establish simple guidelines on milestones to help track progress.

Activities with simultaneous translation. Digital space to communicate via chat; perhaps a Signal group could generate more closeness.

Improve the research agenda and grant writing. Involve some high-level academics from both the North and South, along with lawyers.

4. Is there any other information we haven’t asked about that you would like to share about Jaaklac?

Jaaklac has a powerful and unique approach. The dedication they have shown as a completely voluntary initiative is remarkable.

I appreciate the efforts of each and every one of you, and it means a lot to me to suddenly be close to the Jaaklac community.

Jaaklac has a strong and distinctive identity that combines the perspectives of CDE, decoloniality, digital justice, and the global majority. Jaaklac functions as a growing ecosystem rather than a single programme, which positions it to become a global hub for CDE.

Jaaklac is moving very quickly towards becoming a robust international organisation. Intercontinental actions are being carried out because we have different realities between Latin American and European countries.

Catch up with some of our 2025 Community outputs and network