Our Internal Decolonising Process

Building on discussions about the wider decolonising process for the digital rights field, in 2022 we started to look at ways that we can decolonise our own work. From January through June, all staff participated in an intense series of workshops on internal decolonising principles and practices run by expert external consultants. Although much of this work focuses on personal changes, such as learning about antidotes to white supremacy culture and building more empathetic ways of communicating, we also started to make some concrete operational changes to embed these principles in our internal culture. This includes, for example, changing our working guidelines to integrate wellbeing, mental health, and anti-oppression practices; Time-Off-In-Lieu recognition; childcare support allowance; home office allowance; etc. Working hours were reduced from 40 to 36 hours per week, and we implemented a flexible policy around working remotely.