EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS THROUGH DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW
Our world is increasingly reliant on technology and the use of digital devices. We struggle every day to have control over our digital lives and make informed responsible choices. Own Your Data works to fill the knowledge gap, advocating for a digitally intelligent global community. We believe every person should have the ability and resources to protect themselves online.
We equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.
WHY DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE
Our digital lives are no longer sequestered to digital devices, they impact every aspect of our physical world.
Digital intelligence, the ability to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills related to digital technologies, is the primary focus for the foundation, and includes education and awareness around crucial topics:
- Data Rights
- Cybersecurity
- Online Ethics
- Effective Communication
- Technology Proficiency
Digital intelligence is imperative in creating a moral, transparent, and consensual global future.
We equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.
OUR INITIATIVE, OBJECTIVE, PLAN
We aim to be the capacity builders and multipliers in the digital intelligence movement by focusing on the training of trainers. Through the implementation of curricula and advanced training programs for those who teach digital intelligence skills, we have set out to greatly expand our reach and impact.
Our efforts are focused on mobilizing adults and those with influence while inspiring a network of youth volunteers to become a valuable resource for their classmates and peers.
We believe by investing in the enhancement of our educators, trainers, and peer experts we invest in our combined global future.
We believe by investing in the enhancement of our educators, trainers, and peer experts we invest in our combined global future.
TIMELINE AND GOALS
We strive to inspire a systemic change in digital intelligence education. Starting with activation on a local level and expanding outwards, we are calling on communities to realize the importance and urgency of digital intelligence education and the exponential positive impact it can have.
Implementing these training programs in local school systems, after school programs and summer compliments are the first steps in this transformation. Through measured success, we can continue to expand our mission to corporations and governments while measuring the impact on a global scale.
Implementing these training programs in local school systems, after school programs and summer compliments are the first steps in this transformation.
RESOURCES
Become Digitally Intelligent (DQ)
ABOUT US
We are Human Rights champions. We are Privacy activists. We are Education advocates.
Brittany Kaiser
Brittany Kaiser is the Co-Founder of the Own Your Data Foundation. She is also a Co-Founder of the Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA), a nonprofit lobbying firm advancing legislative reform protecting the rights of individuals to control their digital assets. To raise awareness of data rights, she co-founded the Own Your Data Foundation, to promote digital literacy education. Brittany is also the primary subject of the Netflix Original documentary The Great Hack, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and the author of Targeted published by Harper Collins.
NATALIE KAISER
Natalie Kaiser is the Co-Founder of the Own Your Data Foundation. Across her career, she has developed expertise in working with children. Natalie’s background in child psychology combined with her years of experience has given her unique insights into the way children learn about the world around them. She is passionate about equipping every child with the essential tools they need to be successful and protected in our global digital world.
CHRISTOPHER SIA
Christopher Sia is the Chief Financial Officer of the Own Your Data Foundation. He retired from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Throughout his career, he had risen through a series of positions of increasing responsibility, serving as a Staff Accountant, Controller, Controller & Chief Technology Officer, and Treasurer & Chief Technology Officer. After his retirement, he has worked as a finance and technology consultant with groups ranging from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock Veatch Program. In addition to his professional interests, Chris is an avid marathoner and a passionate fisherman. He currently serves on the board of New Ground, a Long Island-based not-for-profit that provides social work and education services to help families and veterans break the cycle of poverty and homelessness. Chris received a B.S. in Commerce, Major in Business Management from De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines.
ABOUT THE FOUNDATION
The Own Your Data Foundation is a Wyoming 501(c)(3) non-profit. As a non-profit foundation, we are implementing programs that democratize digital intelligence education and create measurable social impact.
Your valued donations will support the following first initiatives:
- Own Your Data is building curricula for the training of trainers for digital intelligence education, aimed at teachers, parents, and student leaders.
- Own Your Data is helping to build an expert network to support the Coalition for Digital Intelligence, refining global standards in digital literacy education.
- Own Your Data is training thought leaders throughout the technology field to become multipliers and conduct their own training worldwide.