Hong Kong Watch hosts UK Youth Initiative workshops on community resilience and digital security

This week, as part of our UK Youth Initiative Programme, Hong Kong Watch hosted two workshops on building community resilience and enhancing digital security.

On Sunday, we welcomed Richard Choi, Councillor for Sutton Central and founder of the Sutton Hongkonger community. Richard shared his journey and insights on building a sustainable Hong Konger grassroots community, mobilising people for positive change, and overcoming setbacks. He also facilitated an exercise on community organising and resilience.

Yesterday, participants took part in a digital security training session led by Maia Scott and Rebekah Brown from Citizen Lab, an organisation that provides training, tools, and educational resources on protecting high-risk groups in democracy, human rights, and global security. Maia and Rebekah shared their expertise in identifying common phishing techniques and ways to strengthen digital safety.

These workshops conclude this year’s series of training in advocacy, public policy, and civic engagement under our UK Youth Initiative Programme. We are grateful to all our speakers for their contributions, and we look forward to continuing to build our youth participants’ knowledge and skills and to supporting their advocacy and civic pursuits.

香港監察舉辦青年政治參與工作坊 探討社區韌性和數碼安全

香港監察本星期舉辦了兩場「英國青年政治參與計劃」工作坊，探討如何培養社區韌性和保障數碼安全。

星期日，我們邀請了Sutton Central區議員兼港人組織「Sutton 香港人」創辦人蔡嘉源（Richard Choi）擔任講者。Richard分享他在建立可持續的港人街坊社區、動員社區力量推動變革，以及克服挫折等方面的經驗。他亦引導參加者做有關社區組織和韌性的練習。

昨天，學員參加由來自公民實驗室（Citizen Lab）的專家Maia Scott和Rebekah Brown講授的數碼安全培訓。公民實驗室是致力為在民主、人權和全球安全領域工作的高風險群體提供培訓、工具和教育資源的組織。兩位專家分享了如何識別常見的網絡釣魚（phishing）詐騙手法，以及提升數碼安全的方法。

這兩場工作坊為本年度香港監察「英國青年政治參與計劃」中倡議、公共政策和公民參與培訓系列劃上句號。我們感激一眾講者的分享，同時期待繼續培訓青年參加者的知識和技能，並支持他們未來投身倡議及公民活動。

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