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Two-thirds of the world’s population—nearly 5. 5 billion people—live in a country where the global internet is censored. And this number is only increasing as authoritarian governments around the world are harnessing technological advances to increase the scale, scope, and efficiency of digital repression.
As a result, we see increasingly sophisticated challenges to protect internet freedom, and see evolving community needs: the constant evolution of repressive censorship and surveillance tactics growing demand for anti-censorship tools secure, privacy-enhancing technology to counter surveillance rapid digital security support for at-risk communities under-funding and under-support for the FOSS ecosystem We fund technical solutions to address these and more.
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Applied research to better understand where and how censorship is occurring, and the technical methods to combat it Development & deployment of anti-censorship and privacy-enhancing technologies Emergency, short-term digital security support for human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society groups Long-term maintenance of established, free, and open source software projects underpinning the open, global internet Sustaining large-scale, open source, anti-censorship tools operating in highly repressive contexts Systemic improvements to the digital security ecosystem Technology-focused convenings that empower internet freedom communities to collaborate and share knowledge Check out the funding options below to learn more.
Our Applicant Guidebook can help you with the application process. Facing a clear, time-sensitive, state-sponsored digital emergency and need short-term, urgent digital security support? Free and Open Source Software Sustainability Fund Does your project idea support the long-term maintainability, interoperability, reproducibility, security, and resilience of the internet freedom technology ecosystem?
Need support for user costs for your large-scale, open source VPN or anti-censorship tool to respond to demand in repressive information contexts? Have an idea for an innovative technology or research project that helps people facing repressive censorship and/or surveillance? Information Controls Research Interested in researching the technical orchestration of repressive information controls and the methods to combat it?
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. Manage {vendor_count} vendors
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