About us

What is the Progressive Technology Project?

PTP is a social justice movement partner with a mission to strengthen grassroots organizing groups to achieve their goals more effectively and efficiently through the strategic use of technology. PTP is committed to social justice work because we believe that real political change can only be achieved when people of color, indigenous people, immigrants, women, low-income, LGBTQ, and people whose lives intersect these communities collectively build power in their communities to drive systemic change that dismantles oppressive structures, inequalities, and conditions. Learn more

Powerbase

The database for community organizers

People Of Color Techie Training

Fighting racism within movement technology communities

Technology Strategy

Bringing politics & technology to organzing, grassroots fundraising, and communications

Voter Project

More than voter turnout

Digital Security

Holistic approach to movement security

Next Gen Technology

What is revolutionary technology and how do we develop it?

Testimonials

We have worked with hundreds of movement organizations over our 20 year history.

  • I learned things in this [Grassroots Fundraising & Technology] training that will greatly increase my organization’s ability to have successful fundraising campaigns.

    Misha Cornelius

    Black Organizing Project

  • PTP helps our organization combine communications and technology to go further.

    Christina Parker

    Grassroots Leadership

  • PowerBase is a gift for organizations large and small that want technology that is designed by and for organizers.

    Robin Schneider

    Texas Campaign for the Enivironment

  • Thanks to PTP’s REVERB team Iowa CCI has not just one, but TWO new websites that are simple, affordable and – get this – useful.

    Hugh Epsey

    Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

From our blog

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Is it important to control our communication tools today? What about tomorrow?

on August 9, 2023

Many of us have seen the recent headlines about Zoom using audio and video content from calls to train its Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. Some aspects of this story are familiar, but there are a two angles that are worth considering more carefully. The first is access. Can zoom access our conversations? Despite Zoom’s best marketing effort in 2020 claiming they are rolling out end-to-end encryption, the truth is that virtually none of our zoom meetings are end-to-end encrypted.

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Can we build alternatives to corporate technology?

on May 1, 2023

May First Movement Technology has released a report: “Politics and practices of an autonomous technology: voices from the May First membership.” Based on extensive interviews, the report explores why and how social justice movement organizers and activists are building a sustainable and powerful alternative to corporate technology. According to Alice Aguilar, executive director of Progressive Technology Project and one of the authors of the report: It’s not possible to have a truly collective approach to technology without cultivating a radically inclusive space that is representative of our movements.

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Don’t [let your devices] talk to cops

on March 21, 2023

A Joint Statement from Progressive Technology Project and May First As part of the mass mobilization to protest the creation of Cop City, a huge police training facility in Atlanta, 23 more protesters have been charged with domestic terrorism. This latest round brings the total number of Cop City protesters facing this dangerous charge to 42. Make no mistake: by charging political protesters with a crime that carries a sentence of up to 35 years in prison, the police are resorting to desperate measures to stop dissent.

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Progressive Technology Project is leaving Twitter

on December 12, 2022

PTP is happily joining the migration from Twitter to non-corporate alternatives! Many of you have already launched your new home in the fediverse and we invite you to follow us on Mastodon here. For those of you still using Twitter, we invite you to learn about the alternatives by signing up for an account on one of the many fediverse instances (see below for more information on what the fediverse is and how to join it).

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