the people's reset 2026 workshop/activity
Rise Above Big Tech - Open Source Ecosystems
Hakeem Anwar
January 31, 2026
5:15 -6:45 PM
Manifestation Room at the Grand Cantalagua
Free
Hakeem Anwar
January 31, 2026
5:15 -6:45 PM
Manifestation Room at the Grand Cantalagua
Free
Want to ditch big tech? Learn how in this workshop; Hakeem CEO of Above Phone will lead attendees through different solutions across de-googled phones and laptops.
We’ll cover what life is like on open-source tech: Everything from PowerPoints to Peer to Peer crypto exchanges.
Phone
– Communications
– Navigation
– Media
– Finance
Laptops
– Office work
– Cryptocurrency
– Cloud Sync
Have a laptop you want to convert to Linux? We’ll have Linux USBs you can borrow or buy to test out different operating systems and install them.
Workshop attendees will receive a special discount towards an Above Phone or Above Book.
Hakeem Anwar
Hakeem Anwar is a technologist and educator who dropped his career in big tech to work on meaningful social movements. He founded #TakeBackOurTech to teach freedom lovers how to use technology privately, and created Above: a privacy-first technology company that develops phones, laptops, and communication services.
Hakeem believes in using technology for good. As a professional software engineer and technologist who was awake to the agenda, Hakeem quickly grew tired of corrupted and misguided corporate work. His heart drew him towards activist movements, in 2019 he began running technology infrastructure for The Freedom Cell Network and The Greater Reset, helping bring countless people all over the world together under one purpose, to live freely. This was the true power of technology. In 2021, Hakeem started #TakeBackOurTech, an educational initiative that publishes free guides on using friendly, private, open-source software. At the same time he founded Above, a privacy first tech company that provides professional private phone and laptop solutions, internet & communications services (email, encrypted chat, video conferencing, VPN, search) along with the support and education to empower people to use their tech confidently.
Pushing the boundaries past digital technology, this year Hakeem wishes to share his research on energetic medicine and its importance in healing ourselves.
https://takebackourtech.org