Ying Tong - HackMD

[PSE Grant Proposal] Community Privacy Residency

Project: Community Privacy Residency Project Overview :page_facing_up: Overview The Community Privacy Residency is a 2-4 week residency centered on researching, co-designing, prototyping, and building open-source community privacy applications. This residency will build community, organize events, and create original work and research promoting open-source applications of privacy and cryptography tools in direct collaboration with vulnerable communities. Residents will be invited to engage with sessions at RightsCon (Feb 24 - 27, 2025) on collective approaches to privacy and data protection; community resilience against surveillance; digital rights for marginalized communities; and more. Throughout the duration, residents will be invited to host knowledge sharing sessions and interactive workshops. The organizing team will also invite local cryptography, ZK, MPC, and governance communities to attend and host sessions. The residency will culminate in a demo day, where residents share their outputs and processes. Outputs may include code prototypes, workshops and research reports, and educational communications and materials. The organising team will compile these outputs in the form of a written publication. After the residency, teams will continue to work on ongoing projects that have emerged. The residency will not directly provide funding for these projects, but will connect teams to potential trusted funding sources.