GlobaLeaks · Vinony

GlobaLeaks · Vinony

GlobaLeaks forms a global community of human rights defenders based on the principles of international solidarity, the universality and indivisibility of human rights, impartiality, independence and diversity. Susanna has been working on transparency and anticorruption since 2013. She worked for Transparency International Italia for 9 years mainly following advocacy and data analysis activities. She has a long-standing collaboration with GlobaLeaks on whistleblowing projects for citizens and the public sector. In 2022 she joined the team as Project Manager. Abdul is a talented computer engineer and advocate for secure communication, has been an active code contributor to GlobaLeaks. His efforts have focused on enhancing the platform’s architecture and functionality, collaborating with the team to ensure it remains a reliable tool for secure and anonymous whistleblowing. Computer engineer and whistleblowing hacktivist, Giovanni is co-author of GlobaLeaks involved in its architectural design since the early stages and has continuously guided and advised contributors and users since 2011. He is current Project Lead. Fabio co-founded the GlobaLeaks project taking care of the initial organization specifically focusing on fundraising and early deployments. Fundraising, strategy and project development mostly in anticorruption uses of the software have been his primary focus areas over time. Alessandro has been supporting the GlobaLeaks project since 2012, particularly by analyzing regulatory issues and working on data protection compliance and information security certifications. He collaborates with Legal Informatics and Cyberspace in the Law Faculty of the University of Milan. His fields of expertise are principally privacy and new technology, ICT audit, cybersecurity, cyber crimes and digital whistleblowing. He is current Compliance Manager. Rima has been a long-term contributor to the GlobaLeaks project since 2015 leading localization and outreach efforts and international project development. She was the program manager of the Digital Whistleblowing Fund, a grant program that enables investigative journalism groups and human rights grassroots organizations to apply to receive financial, technical and strategic support in starting a secure digital whistleblowing initiative. She is current Community Lead and DPO and has been supporting the GL team in an advisory capacity on HR, governance and fundraising issues. The Digital Whistleblowing Fund is a micro-grant program that aims to enable investigative journalism groups and human rights grassroots organizations to receive financial, operational and strategic support in starting a secure digital whistleblowing initiative, as part of their social mission. Digital Whistleblowing fund was supported by OSIFE in its first call for application meant for projects operating within Europe. To achieve this, the project will help provide European citizens with safe corruption reporting channels to receive technical, legal and advocacy assistance in Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Slovenia. GlobaLeaks will collaborate with Transparency International’s chapters in these countries to implement the whistleblowing framework. The project will also help public and private European organisations in high-risk sectors to implement best-practice whistleblowing mechanisms. A pilot initiative will be therefore developed in Slovenia to replicate the successful experience gained in Italy with WhistleblowingPA. The platform is available with a questionnaire specifically designed for the fight against corruption in compliance with italian regulation n.179/2017 and European Directive 2019/1937 . The project aims to promote a whistleblowing culture and ultimately contribute to a lower level of corruption and empower civil society. Expanding Anonymous Tipping (EAT) is a two-year anti-corruption project developed by civil society organizations from the top 10 countries with the highest