Digital Compass
Civic Tech
Reviewed by OpenAI and published in ChatGPT — plugin in ChatGPT
Case study & materials
The problem
When something happens to someone online — a fake link, a hacked account, a shopping scam, blackmail — they find either talk about "digital skills" or technical articles. No clear public path, in their language, answering "what do I do NOW?"
Description
Open-source public guide to digital safety: "situation → what to do" playbooks written for non-technical readers, editorialized for 9 countries (each with its own reporting channels), installable as a PWA with guides savable offline, and exposed to AI agents through an MCP server published in the registry.
Result
19 crisis playbooks and 11 prevention guides, in 9 languages, each with the steps to take now, what NOT to do, and where to report in your country — with sources cited in the open.
Technical details
- 19 crisis playbooks (fake links, hacked accounts, sextortion, shopping scams, crypto "investments", lost phone and more) + 11 prevention guides, per language.
- 9 editorialized languages, not mechanical translations: reporting channels anchored per country — 288 static pages.
- Non-technical language passing the "grandma test": every term explained simply before being named; sources cited for every claim.
- Installable PWA with guides explicitly savable offline — for the person in crisis with poor connectivity.
- MCP server v0.3.0 published in the registry + llms.txt — AI agents can serve the steps straight from the source.
- MIT code + CC BY 4.0 content, published on GitHub (marian5070/digital-compass); HowTo structured data on playbooks.
- Documented as of August 2026 — information and figures reflect the state at publication time.