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Sarah Barnbrook

Sarah Barnbrook

Sarah Barnbrook is the Founder and CEO of Away from Keyboard (AFK) Inc., an Australian charity working on digital safety, ethical AI governance and the prevention of technology-facilitated harm. She also leads Xallarap, a technology ethics and governance consultancy. A socio-technologist, she builds practical tools that help people see the blind spots in the technology they use, design and deploy.

Her flagship tool, Alt-TAB, is a free, globally accessible ethical technology assessment tool that helps organisations review technology decisions, including AI systems, before deployment. It screens against 35 international and Australian governance frameworks, with mandatory checks for child safety, technology-facilitated gender-based violence and cybersecurity. Launched at the NGO CSW70 Forum in New York, it needs no login and stores nothing that is submitted.

Sarah is an accredited United Nations delegate across multiple CSW and ITU WSIS cycles, has delivered workshops and sessions at UN and ITU forums, and is a WSIS Digital Trendsetter. In 2026 she led the civil society consultation on the Women Deliver Declaration on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Melbourne.

At home, she has made submissions to Senate and parliamentary committees, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and the federal Digital Duty of Care consultation, and has engaged with the eSafety Commissioner on safeguards for young people.

Sarah is Co-Vice Chair of IEEE Industry Connections Activity IC25-008-01 on AI and Family Violence. She is a member of IEEE, including the Society on Social Implications of Technology and Women in Engineering, as well as the Australian Women in Security Network and the Royal Society of Victoria. She is National Advocacy Lead for the Digital Safety Futures Project with Soroptimist International Australia, Chief Advocacy Officer at Women 4 STEM, Company Secretary of the Australian Gender Equality Council, and Human Rights and ICT Adviser to the National Council of Women Victoria.

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