Fair Tech was a part of a consultant team that co-lead research and community organizing efforts that launched ARISE, a community space for sharing knowledge, building bonds of solidarity, and a laboratory of ideas from the Global South to counter strategies of global and dominant technology actors that seek to evade platform responsibility, and organized the community’s first offline gathering in Kenya in January 2024. More information on the first ARISE Retreat by one of the community's members, Fundación InternetBolivia.org (link in Spanish).
The project was funded by the Netgain Partnership, with administrative support from the Media Democracy Fund. It was a collective work with Dr. Anja Kovacs, Dr. Senka Hadzic, and Paz Peña, in addition to the active contributions of ARISE members.