About this portal
Who built this, why, and how the three organisations behind POINT Conference Iraq 7 fit together.
This portal was built for the people coming to POINT Conference Iraq 7, and for anyone doing the same work in Iraq and the wider region who cannot travel there. It comes out of a needs assessment of 14 civil society organisations.
Every tool page here says where your text goes, who can read it, and what to never put into it.
The three organisations
POINT Conference Iraq 7
POINT Conference Iraq was established in 2018 by Tawasoul Organization for Youth Empowerment, together with international and national partners. It is the counterpart, for Iraq and the region, of the international POINT Conference held every year in Sarajevo by Why Not Foundation (Zašto ne) and the ACTION SEE Network.
Its stated aim is “developing the capacities of activists, journalists, and human rights defenders in protecting civil and political rights and freedoms.”
Edition 7 runs from 18 to 20 September 2026 in Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Tawasoul Organization for Youth Empowerment
The Iraqi host. It convenes the conference, brings the Iraqi civil society network into the room, and decides what the programme covers. Reach the conference and its host at https://point-iraq.org/.
CDR
CDR works on “technology for better public decisions”. It is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit with a presence in Türkiye. This portal is part of its gov2ai programme, and CDR wrote the tool assessments, the safety guidance and the recipes on this site.
How they fit together
Tawasoul hosts the conference in Iraq. CDR builds and maintains this portal, the written half you can still read in six months, in your own language, when the session you attended has faded. Why Not Foundation (Zašto ne) and the ACTION SEE Network run the original POINT Conference in Sarajevo, which this edition is modelled on. They are partners of the conference, not of this website.
What we get wrong
This site is written by people who do not live with the risks its readers live with. Some tool pages say “untested” rather than give a score, because nobody has measured that tool in Arabic or Kurdish and we will not invent a number. The Arabic and Kurdish are machine-assisted until a native speaker reviews them, and every unreviewed page says so at the top.
If something here is wrong, out of date, or dangerous in your context, tell us at the conference or through CDR. Being corrected is cheaper than being trusted by mistake.