This report shares what we learned from the Tech Justice Roadtrip, which ran from autumn 2024 to spring 2025. It captures the conditions that helped justice-led partners experiment, organise and imagine more liberatory relationships with technology. It is offered as an invitation for others to build on what worked and adapt what did not.​

On this page you can read about the evaluation approach, view the full report as a flipbook (and download it), and explore five intentions that we hope will shape future justice-led funding and tech projects.​

What this evaluation is about

The Tech Justice Roadtrip set out to show that a fairer, more inclusive digital future is possible when we centre communities living with tech injustice and shift power towards them. Building on the Tech Justice Manifesto, we convened justice-led partners Chayn, Camden Giving and Multitudes to experiment with new ways of sharing power, designing technology and funding change.​

Over 2024–2025, the Roadtrip distributed around £90,000 across ten activities, including trauma‑informed feminist AI work, participatory grantmaking, community research, reflective spaces and storytelling. The evaluation explores what became possible through this model, and what remained hard.​

A decolonial approach to learning

We worked with inFocus and Nikita Shah to co-develop a decolonial evaluation framework for the Roadtrip. This approach centres equity, lived experience and relationships, and actively challenges extractive or top‑down ways of defining success.​

The framework invited partners to slow down, notice power, and agree together what learning felt most relevant for them and their communities. It has already started to influence how we think about learning and accountability across other Catalyst projects and wider tech justice work.​

What the Roadtrip made possible

Partners used the Roadtrip funding and governance model to try out approaches that might not fit traditional tech or funding programmes. This included:​

• Chayn deepening survivor‑led, trauma‑informed work on a feminist AI takedown tool
• Camden Giving co‑designing a digital grant‑making tool with young people
• Multitudes exploring “commoning” and governance as tech justice practice
• Hyphen Poetry supporting decolonial and trauma‑informed practice
• Research, reflective spaces, blogs and an Afrofuturist‑inspired zine that connected UK work with global tech justice movements​

Across this work, the evaluation highlights the importance of trust‑building, flexible timelines, and intentional spaces for vulnerability and reflection. It also surfaces tensions around pay equity, time pressure and the limits of short project cycles.​

Five intentions for future practice

From the evaluation, the Circle named five invitations for anyone designing future justice‑led, circle‑based or tech projects.​

• Begin with relationships and human connection
• Build in longer and more flexible timelines
• Develop and share transparent payment frameworks
• Make reflection a rhythm from the outset
• Design with care, access and wellbeing at the centre​

These invitations are not a checklist. They are starting points for people who want to organise, fund and build technology in ways that are more accountable to communities most affected by tech injustice.​

Who this evaluation is for

We hope the Roadtrip evaluation is useful for:

• Justice‑led and community organisations exploring tech, data or digital organising
• Funders and infrastructure bodies experimenting with power‑shifting approaches
• Designers, technologists and facilitators who want to put tech justice at the centre of their work​

You are welcome to adapt the ideas, questions and intentions in ways that make sense in your own context, while crediting the Tech Justice Roadtrip partners and contributors.

View the evaluation report

You can also download a PDF of the report.