Guardians of the Grid – Join our Digital Campaign for the 16 Days of Activism
Digital Defender Badge:
Step into your role as a Digital Defender. Download your badge and show your commitment to creating safer online spaces for women and girls.
Digital Defender (Badge) (431 downloads )
Digital Defender Pledge:
Take the Digital Defender Pledge. Use this commitment guide to help you stay intentional about preventing and responding to online harm.
Digital Defender (Pledge) (398 downloads )
For the Safe Space Builder Badge:
Safe Space Builder (Badge) (396 downloads )
For the Safe Space Builder Pledge:
Become a Safe Space Builder. Download your badge and show your commitment to supporting survivors with empathy, protection and practical help.
Take the Safe Space Builder Pledge. Use this guide to strengthen the way you listen, support and create safer environments for those facing online or offline harm.
GUARDIANS OF THE GRID CAMPAIGN
Every day, people are stalked, intimidated, threatened, shamed and silenced through their phones, socialmedia and messaging apps. Screenshots become weapons, group chats turn into mob attacks, and a single post can unleash waves of abuse. Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) is real violence with real-life consequences. If we’re honest about how we may have been part of the problem,
This #16DaysOfActivism2025, you can join Her Story Our Story Nigeria; TechSocietal; TechHerNG and Dataphyte Foundation to make the internet a safer place.
Take Responsibility to ‘Guard the Grid’
Guard the Grid as a Digital Defender
- Speak up against non-consensual image sharing, online harassment, cyberstalking, sextortion and doxxing
- Don’t spread online abuse. Interrupt it.
- Don’t look away. Call out perpetrators of online abuse immediately
- Report it
Guard the Grid as a Safe Space Builder
- Don’t judge, blame or shame victims of online gender-based violence
- Don’t be silent. Stand up for those who are being harassed and intimidated online
- Refer victims of online abuse to organisations who can provide support
Don’t Stay Silent When You Can Use Your Power to Prevent and Protect
Log on. Stand up. Guard the Grid.
Join the campaign, download the badge and the pledge and post to your online / social profiles (Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Whatsapp etc).
#EndDigitalViolence #HerStoryOurStoryNG #16DaysOfActivism2025