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Workshop
As part of the Money Trail project, Finance Uncovered and Free Press Unlimited offer six training courses focused on how to investigate tax abuse, money laundering and corruption plus digital safety. The next training will take place in Jakarta between the 30th of March and the 3rd of April.
We are delighted to invite applications from journalists, campaigners and academics from around the world who would like to attend our five-day financial investigative journalism and digital security training course in Jakarta.
The dates for our Jakarta training will be:
Monday 30 March – Friday 3 April 2020
The deadline for applications is Monday 25 November 2019 at 09h00 BST
You do not need to have a financial background to apply but we consider it important when selecting candidates to see evidence of your investigative experience. Class instructions will take place in English.
Why attend?
Over three days, you will be shown how to investigate corporate accounts, offshore activity and corporate corruption. We will show you where to find documents, how to analyse them and other practical tools to help uncover financial secrecy. We will also demonstrate how you can secure those involved in your investigation by improving your risk assessment and security skills. A combination of hands-on training and guidance from senior practitioners will give you the basis to investigate financial corruption as well as offering the opportunity to network with other journalists and activists.
The course aims to help participants understand:
The building blocks of the offshore world, how to access and interpret company accounts, where to access other company information, the methodology behind the ground-breaking tax avoidance investigations by the journalists who conducted them, how to investigate and report corruption stories, how to track the international policy agenda relating to illicit financial flows and digital security (see below).
Digital Security
Investigative journalists following the money often work with sensitive information that some people and organisations do not want to see publicised.
So keeping you, your data and your sources secure is paramount.
This is why during two days of our training, Free Press Unlimited will focus on advanced digital security techniques, including encryption, secure communication and methods to stay “under the radar” during investigations. We will cover:
- Device security, how to keep one’s equipment secure
- Online security, how to safely operate online
- Mobile security, how to safely use digital equipment on-the-road, including telephones and other devices
- Social media security, how to safely use social media for research and publication
Bursaries available
Bursaries are available for journalists, activists and researchers from Asia. Bursaries will cover visa fees, travel and accommodations. Due to the limited number of bursaries, journalist applicants will be selected on their track record in investigative journalism. Activists will have to demonstrate some economic justice research and campaign experience. As we tend to be over-subscribed some candidates may be placed on a waiting list for subsequent courses.
How to apply
To apply please fill in this online application form. Please do not copy and paste entire articles into the form. Where possible, please provide links or a few lines summary of the article plus date of publication.
More info: www.money-trail.org/training/
Jakarta
Indonesia
