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Ramy Raoof (رامي رؤوف), is an award-winning Egyptian technologist, privacy advocate and digital security consultant. He engages with multiple overlapping communities in Egypt and the MENA on efficiently integrating technologies with privacy in mind. His activities are focused on mapping surveillance patterns based on that developing holistic security approach for activists and civil society groups.

In the course of his work he provided and developed digital security plans and strategies for NGOs and members of the media, as well as emergency response plans in cases of physical threats and operational plans for human rights emergency response teams in Egypt, the Middle East and the Northern Africa Region. Ramy developed strategies in support of publishing sensitive material and secured systems for managing information about sexual violence and torture survivors. He also contributed to the testing of privacy programs, the localization of several privacy apps into Arabic and the development of privacy protocols.

On 21 May 2016 he gave a TedxCairo talk titled:PR!\/@CY?



Recognition
In May 2016 Ramy received the international Bobs Award - Best of Online Activism by people's vote in recognition for his work in digital security and privacy. In January 2016, he was named in the World Top 100 Info Security Influencers list by CISO Platform in India. In 2012, he was ranked number 10 by the Newsweek Magazine in the Revolutionaries list of the Digital Power Index, after being ranked number 14 by Forbes Middle East in Top 100 Arab Presence on Twitter a year earlier.