During the first half of 2026, TEDIC’s community came together in different places and in different ways: in workshops, on the streets, in classrooms, institutional spaces, community gatherings, and conversations that crossed geographical and thematic boundaries. Sometimes, we came together to learn how to care for ourselves; other times, to question who is present, think about how democracy is built, or connect with those directly experiencing the impacts of technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a journey through these encounters and the conversations we collectively built between January and June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For TEDIC, January is a month for planning, designing strategies, and thinking about the paths we will take throughout the year. But even during a quieter period, there was still room to come together and share tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In partnership with the Movimiento Estudiantil Creemos and Filo al Aire, the student radio station at the Faculty of Philosophy that works alongside Radio Fe y Alegr\u00eda, we held a digital security workshop<\/a> for students preparing to pursue careers in journalism. The session was an opportunity to talk about the challenges of communicating in digital environments and the tools needed to do so more safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is how the year began: thinking about what was ahead while also strengthening, from the very beginning, the relationships that make it possible for us to care for one another as a community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In February, we came together for a Feminist Minga<\/a> around the All Male Panel project gallery, alongside feminist women and gender-focused activists. More than 20 participants reviewed and selected images from the archive to collectively identify the situations most relevant to reflecting on the impact of these exclusions on democracy and women’s participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conversation revolved around absences: who appears as an expert voice? Who is invited to participate in public discussions? In which spaces does the exclusion of women become most evident? We also asked ourselves what place women are given when they do appear and what imaginaries are built around their presence: when they are recognized for their knowledge and experience, and when their presence is associated with their physical appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The selection of images thus became a collective exercise in examining power, representation, and the absences that persist in the spaces where the country’s public, cultural, and technological agenda is shaped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In March, International Women\u2019s Day brought us together across different spaces and formats<\/a>. We began by sending TEDIC materials and merch to our community, circulating messages, resources, and tools to support conversations around feminism, gender, and technology beyond our usual spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also sat down with women councillors from the Central Department to discuss online violence and disinformation, two phenomena that disproportionately affect women\u2019s political participation. Sharing concrete experiences of coordinated attacks, harassment, and the circulation of false information allowed us to think about prevention and response strategies in a space of trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cinema was another way to open up the conversation. Through a screening of I Am Nevenka<\/em>, organized with the Centro Cultural de Espa\u00f1a, we engaged with a story that invites us to think about harassment, political violence, and the costs many women face when they decide to occupy public spaces and report violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, finally, we took to the streets. We participated in the March for International Women\u2019s Day, bringing our messages and sharing a day that, year after year, reminds us that the struggle for equality is built by occupying public space and coming together with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Together with the Senate’s Commission for Equity and Gender, in April we brought the art exhibition \u00bfD\u00f3nde est\u00e1n las mujeres?<\/a><\/em> to the National Congress. Inspired by the All Male Panel archive, the exhibition brings together three works by emerging Paraguayan artists\u2014Paz Moreno Re, Betania Ruttia, and Riccardo Castellani\u2014alongside a large collage created by Karen Vera from images collectively selected during the Feminist Minga in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bringing this conversation into an institutional space such as Congress was a form of advocacy, but also an opportunity for encounter. Through art, absences and exclusions could be observed, explored, and discussed from a different perspective. The exhibition allowed us to bring a question into the heart of one of the spaces where decisions about public life in the country are made, while also sharing with the community a different way of looking at and challenging the underrepresentation of women\u2014not only through denunciation, but also through creation, imagination, and encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n April was also a month of conversations about how democracy is built and contested in the present. Together with the Red Pol\u00edtica de Innovaci\u00f3n, we met with young leaders<\/a>, people involved in politics, and candidates for city council to discuss how we imagine politics, how we exercise democracy, and the challenges facing civic participation in Paraguay and the region. The exchange allowed us to learn about the concerns and proposals of those thinking about new ways of doing politics in a context marked by disinformation, polarization, and declining trust in institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As part of the Americas Regional Forum 2026, co-organized by Alma C\u00edvica and the Global Democracy Coalition, we took part in a laboratory on disinformation<\/a>. Drawing on lessons from previous research, we collectively developed strategies to address this phenomenon and think about how it affects different groups and communities in different ways. The activity focused not only on understanding the problem, but also on imagining possible responses together with those who took part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also organized a dialogue with journalists <\/a>and communicators together with the Wikimedia Foundation on information sovereignty. The conversation focused on how the expansion of artificial intelligence is transforming the production, circulation, and sustainability of information, and on the risks that data and knowledge extraction pose both to open knowledge projects and to independent journalism. More than 20 journalists took part in this exchange, which allowed us to share a concern that is becoming increasingly urgent: what happens to information when people stop reaching the sources that produce it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n May was a month to talk about digital care: about how to protect ourselves online, but also about how to incorporate these practices into our everyday lives, our workplaces, and the organizations we are part of. Throughout the month, we held three digital security workshops with diverse communities, adapting the conversations to their needs and experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Global Infancia<\/a>, we worked alongside women human rights defenders and activists on the threats and risks they face in their work, as well as on the tools needed to strengthen their digital care practices. With journalists from \u00daltima Hora<\/a>, we discussed the protection of devices, accounts, and information in a context where digital security is also part of the conditions necessary to practice journalism. And at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Art (FADA), we addressed safer sexting and care around intimacy<\/a>, including an increasingly present concern: the use of artificial intelligence to create deepfakes and other forms of digital violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Across all three spaces, a common concern emerged: artificial intelligence is adding new layers of complexity to digital care. The use of these tools can compromise the security of documents and institutional information, but they can also be used to create content that directly affects people’s intimacy, reputation, and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And because these workshops arise from the need to share concrete tools, at TEDIC we offer them free of charge to organizations, activists, journalists, women and men human rights defenders, and students. Each space is adapted to the concerns of those who participate: sometimes we talk about protecting documents and devices, while other times we focus on protecting our intimacy or addressing new threats linked to artificial intelligence. Because we believe that digital security is effective when we democratize information and circulate knowledge, so that we can take care of each other as a pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout June, through our Libres y Segures campaign, we once again placed at the center a concern that affects many LGBT+ communities: the need for safe digital spaces in the face of hate speech, harassment, and coordinated attacks that seek to silence, drive out, or erase the voices of online activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We joined the Pride Paradise community in a series of picnics<\/a> held in different locations across the Central Department. At these gatherings, conversations about digital security left the screens behind to meet the community in open spaces, sharing tools and strategies to respond to attacks and strengthen the online presence of LGBT+ activists and organizations. Because protecting digital spaces also means defending our ability to express ourselves, organize, and continue to be present.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFebruary: Absences Speak Too<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
March: From the Screen to the Streets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
April: Bringing the Questions Together<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A Conversation That Reached the National Congress<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Thinking About Democracy from Different Perspectives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
May: Taking Care of Each Other as a Pack<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
June: The Community Is on the Move<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Picnics, rainbows, and digital security<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Talking about facial recognition in the eastern part of the country<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n