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Supporting Internet Freedom Worldwide

Without Fear of Repressive Censorship or Surveillance.

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Introducing the OTF Authorization Act

House Foreign Affairs Committee leadership has introduced “The Open Technology Fund Authorization Act” which would establish OTF as an independent grantee of the US Agency for Global Media.

Focus areas guiding our work

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Access to the Internet, including tools to circumvent website blocks, connection blackouts, and widespread censorship

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Awareness of access, privacy, or security threats and protective measures, including how-to guides, instructional apps, data collection platforms, and other efforts that increase the efficacy of Internet freedom tools

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Privacy enhancement, including the ability to be free from repressive observation and the option to be anonymous when accessing the Internet

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Security from danger or threat when accessing the Internet, including encryption tools

More about our results and learnings

Funding opportunities

The Open Technology Fund supports projects and people that develop open and accessible technologies promoting human rights and open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications networks.

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Next deadline: May 1, 2020

Internet Freedom Fund

The Internet Freedom Fund is OTF's primary way to support projects and people working on open and accessible technology-centric p…
Next deadline: May 1, 2020

Core Infrastructure Fund

The Core Infrastructure Fund supports the ‘building block’ technologies, infrastructures, and communities relied upon by digital …

Rapid Response Fund

The Rapid Response Fund aims to facilitate the digital emergency response community to resolve threats in a timely and comprehens…

Community Prototype Fund

The Community Prototype Fund supports the rapid development of innovative, viable and open Internet freedom technology prototypes…
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Resource Labs

Open Technology Fund’s Resource Labs help projects and people succeed. The services we provide are available to groups regardless of affiliation with OTF and are an important element in our continued growth as an organisation.

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Learning Lab

Telling the stories of projects and the results they produce

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Engineering Lab

Facilitate more adoption of underlying privacy, security, and circumvention technologies advancing Internet freedom

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Community Lab

Empowering a stronger, more diverse Internet freedom community

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Localization Lab

Making Internet freedom tools available in new languages

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Red Team Lab

Strengthening the security of open-source Internet freedom software

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Usability Lab

The Usability Lab aims to increase user safety and promote practical Internet freedom by working with developers and technologist…
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