Our vision
A world in which every person can easily access secure whistleblowing tools to report wrongdoings and human rights violations, to promote the values of transparency and anti-corruption. This is the vision of GlobaLeaks. In pursuit of this vision, the mission of GlobaLeaks is to research and develop a whistleblowing project development framework.
Our mission
Our mission is to promote transparency and accountability in society. We aim to increase the involvement of citizens in managing matters of public interest and to boost active participation of employees in correcting the management of the corporations and companies that they work for.
GlobaLeaks forms a global community of human rights defenders based on the principles of international solidarity, the universality and indivisibility of human rights, impartiality, independence and diversity.
Our organization
Whistleblowing Solutions Impresa Sociale S.r.l. (WBS) is an innovative social enterprise that carries out research and development to support whistleblowers and the fight against corruption. It was founded in 2016 to guarantee the economic sustainability of the GlobaLeaks project, through taking care of the growing number of requests for assistance, maintenance and custom deployment. WBS hosts the development activities and coordinates the community efforts.
People
Susanna Ferro
Susanna has been working on transparency and anticorruption since 2013. She worked for Transparency International Italia for 9 years mainly following advocacy and data analysis activities. She has a long-standing collaboration with GlobaLeaks on whistleblowing projects for citizens and the public sector. In 2022 she joined the team as Project Manager.
Giovanni Pellerano
Computer engineer and whistleblowing hacktivist, Giovanni is co-author of GlobaLeaks involved in its architectural design since the early stages and has continuously guided and advised contributors and users since 2011. He is current Project Lead.
Fabio Pietrosanti
Fabio co-founded the GlobaLeaks project taking care of the initial organization specifically focusing on fundraising and early deployments. Fundraising, strategy and project development mostly in anticorruption uses of the software have been his primary focus areas over time.
Alessandro Rodolfi
Alessandro has been supporting the GlobaLeaks project since 2012, particularly by analyzing regulatory issues and working on data protection compliance and information security certifications. He collaborates with Legal Informatics and Cyberspace in the Law Faculty of the University of Milan. His fields of expertise are principally privacy and new technology, ICT audit, cybersecurity, cyber crimes and digital whistleblowing. He is current Compliance Manager.
Rima Sghaier
Rima has been a long-term contributor to the GlobaLeaks project since 2015 leading localization and outreach efforts and international project development. She was the program manager of the Digital Whistleblowing Fund, a grant program that enables investigative journalism groups and human rights grassroots organizations to apply to receive financial, technical and strategic support in starting a secure digital whistleblowing initiative. She is current Community Lead and DPO and has been supporting the GL team in an advisory capacity on HR, governance and fundraising issues.
Projects
Digital Whistleblowing Fund (DWF)
The Digital Whistleblowing Fund is a micro-grant program that aims to enable investigative journalism groups and human rights grassroots organizations to receive financial, operational and strategic support in starting a secure digital whistleblowing initiative, as part of their social mission.
Digital Whistleblowing fund was supported by OSIFE in its first call for application meant for projects operating within Europe.
Speak Up Europe
Speak Up Europe is a two-year project coordinated by Transparency International aiming to prevent corruption in high-risk areas in the EU by empowering individuals to speak up about misconduct to public, private and civil society organisations that can take action.
To achieve this, the project will help provide European citizens with safe corruption reporting channels to receive technical, legal and advocacy assistance in Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Slovenia. GlobaLeaks will collaborate with Transparency International’s chapters in these countries to implement the whistleblowing framework.
The project will also help public and private European organisations in high-risk sectors to implement best-practice whistleblowing mechanisms. A pilot initiative will be therefore developed in Slovenia to replicate the successful experience gained in Italy with WhistleblowingPA.
This project is funded by the European Commission.
WhistleblowingPA (WBPA)
WhistleblowingPA is an initiative in collaboration with Transparency International Italia that makes available to all public bodies, subsidiaries and affiliates, a free IT platform to receive and manage reports of corruption.
The administration that subscribes to the WhistleblowingPA project has access to a personal platform, based on the GlobaLeaks software. On this platform, the Head of Corruption Prevention receives the reports and communicates with the whistleblower, also anonymously.
The platform is available with a questionnaire specifically designed for the fight against corruption in compliance with italian regulation n.179/2017 and European Directive 2019/1937 .
Expanding Anonymous Tipping (EAT)
EAT is a two-year project developed by civil society organisations from the ten countries with the highest level of corruption in Europe, according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index
The project aims to promote a whistleblowing culture and ultimately contribute to a lower level of corruption and empower civil society.
Expanding Anonymous Tipping (EAT) is a two-year anti-corruption project developed by civil society organizations from the top 10 countries with the highest level of corruption in Europe, according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. The project aims to promote whistleblowing culture centered around the use and improvement of secure whistleblowing technology (EAT dropboxes based on GlobaLeaks) to ultimately contribute to a lower level of corruption through empowering local civil society.
This project is funded by the European Commission.
Funding
The development of GlobaLeaks into a sustainable product was made possible by grants from a number of programs and institutions.
2011
The first prototype of GlobaLeaks 0.1 was funded by USAID Serbia
2012
GlobaLeaks 2.0 was funded with $108,400 by the Open Technology Fund under the Freedom2Connect program
2014
2014
GlobaLeaks was awarded €200.000 by the Hivos Foundation for Project Deployments of Whistleblowing Initiatives in the Global South
2014
GlobaLeaks received a grant of $234.000 by by The Open Technology Fund supporting 24 months of R&D
2016
GlobaLeaks received a grant of $108.000 by by The Open Technology Fund supporting 18 months of R&D
2017
GlobaLeaks was awarded an R&D grant of €11.200 by the Lush Digital Fund, a program created out of a collaboration between Access Now and Lush.
2018
GlobaLeaks was awarded a grant of €10.000 by the Lush Digital Fund supporting WhistleblowingPa and GlobaLeaks campaigning costs
2019
GlobaLeaks received €41.000 from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to support R&D and an on-site mission to develop a secure whistleblowing system for the anti-corruption authority of Madagascar (BIANCO)
2019
The European Commission funded the The Expanding Anonymous Tipping (EAT) project.
2021
The European Commission funded the Speak Up Europe project.
Roadmap
The current development roadmap of GlobaLeaks can be explored on the following link: https://docs.globaleaks.org/en/devel/roadmap/index.html