Save Internet Freedom: Support the Open Technology Fund

Global internet freedom is more important than ever before, but the current administration in the United States is threatening to dismantle the Open Technology Fund - the most effective tool Congress has in the fight to safeguard the internet as a secure democratic space.

The US Agency for Global Media, under the leadership of new CEO Michael Pack, is currently withholding $20 million in Congressionally allocated internet freedom fundsfrom OTF. As a result, on July 31, OTF was forced to halt 49 of its 60 internet freedom projects, impacting 80% of the organization's critical work helping human rights advocates, journalists, and members of the most vulnerable communities. This forced cutoff jeopardizes the lives of millions of people worldwide who depend on OTF-supported tools to access the internet and news, and threatens the livelihood of countless individuals who rely on funding from OTF to help promote internet freedom.

You can help. The internet freedom community has organized a relief fund through Open Collective to provide bridge funds to OTF projects whose contracts are now frozen.

Donate to #SaveInternetFreedom today. Take action now to ensure people around the world are still able to speak, think, and worship freely online.

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DC Superior Court Affirms the Open Technology Fund’s Board of Directors; Rejects USAGM’s Unauthorized Attempt to Take Over Independent Non-Profit (Press Release)

Last updated: 2020-10-16 16:01

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Amar Ashar
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Julia Reda
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Emma Prest
OCCRP
Josh Levy
Center for Digital Resilience
Antonela Debiasi
The Tor Project
Mohamad Najem
SMEX
David Weinberger
Dan Gillmor
Arizona State University
Nathalie Marechal
Ranking Digital Rights
Niels ten Oever
DATACTIVE Research Group at University of Amsterdam
Salil Vadhan
Harvard University
Britt Paris
Rutgers University
Belen Febres
Simon Fraser University
Cole Gleason
Carnegie Mellon University
Sarah Morris
Open Technology Institute
Paul Dourish
University of California, Irvine
Danny O'Brien
Jennifer Brody
Access Now
Craig Aaron
Free Press Action
Alexandre Franke
GNOME
Rebecca MacKinnon
Susan Landau
Tufts University
Jana Wichmann
Board member Open Knowledge Foundation Germany
Lotus R
Citizen Lab
Mohammad Ghaffarian
United for Iran
Andrea Lampros
UC Berkeley Human Rights Center
Marina Fedorova
UCI
Judith Olson
University of California Irvine
Mario Hoffmann
HTW Berlin
Wendy Seltzer
Ming-Syuan Ho
Taiwan Association for Human Rights
Javier Garza
Freelance journalist
Emma Humphries
Mozilla
Julia Kloiber
Superrr
Psi Vesely
UC Berkeley, cLabs
Michael Meehan
Former BBG Governor
Rebecca MacKinnon
Nehalenniæ OUDIN
Sorbonne Université, LIP6
Li-Lun Wang
Google
Juan Rivera Palomino
Universidad de San Marcos-Lima-Peru
Dongfang Han
China Labour Bulletin
Arthit Suriyawongkul
Thai Netizen Network
Mike Linksvayer
GitHub
Meghan McDermott
CUNY Law
Christopher Coleman
University of Denver
Ben Scott
Reset
Me Me Thein
Myanmar People Alliance (Shan State)
Mila Salahuddin
My future
Ken Montenegro
National Lawyers Guild
Claire Vergerio
Princeton University
Valerie Frissen
SIDN fund/Leiden university
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Al Smith
The Tor Project
Dr Clara Brekke
Durham University
Catherine Liu
UC Irvine
Harley Balzer
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
Javier Cavanilles
IFF
Mallory Knodel
Center for Democracy & Technology
Qiang Xiao
School of Information, UC Berkeley
Eileen Donahoe
Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator
Samaneh Tajalizadeh
ICANN
Kendra Albert
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Laura Moy
Georgetown University Law Center
Stephanie Taylor
Progressive Change Institute
Alexei Abrahams
Citizen Lab
Mykola Kostynyan
FreeNet Ukraine Coalition
Marianne Díaz Hernandez
Derechos Digitales
Alexey Rusakov
Red Hat
Libby Liu
Open Technology Fund (Disputed)
Sofia Arroyo
EDGE Funders Alliance
Nedal Alsalman
Bahrain rights
Nicholas Doiron
Tufts University
Lex Gill
Citizen Lab
Raquel Renno
ARTICLE 19
Daniel Mahoney
Internet Systems Consortium
Riana Pfefferkorn
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Mehrad Sheida
Alexander Howard
Digital Democracy Project, Demand Progress Education Fund
Joshua Shepperd
University of Colorado at Boulder
Mishi Choudhary
Software Freedom Law Center
Emmanuele Somma
Partito Pirata in Italia (President of the Permanent Congress)
Rachael Jolley
Index on Censorship
Jonathan Nelson
HACKFund.com
Bo-Xiang You
National Taiwan University
Alexa Koenig
UC Berkeley Human Rights Center
Wojtek Bogusz
Front Line Defenders
Max Hunter
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Todd Davies
Stanford University
Francesca Musiani
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Lokman Tsui
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Vivian Zuniga
Internet Freedom Festival Advisory Board
Arzu Geybulla
Azerbaijan Internet Watch
Ron Deibert
Citizen Lab
Felicia Anthonio
Access Now
Kat Duffy
Harlo Holmes
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Pierce Stanley
Council on Foreign Relations
Iryna Chulivska
Digital Security Lab Ukraine
Katherine Maher
Wikimedia Foundation, CEO
Caroline Sinders
Harvard Kennedy School
Maksym Lunochkin
Digital Security Lab Ukraine
Michael J. Oghia
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
Chad Sansing
Mozilla Foundation
Myra Abdallah
Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality
Jonathan Penn
University of Cambridge
Ivan Sigal
Global Voices
Baobao Zhang
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Mutale Nkonde
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Allen Gunn
Aspiration Tech
Diep Dao
SaveNET - Internet Freedom for Vietnam
Miguel De icaza
Microsoft
Lauren Bridges
Annenberg School for Communication
Miller Michelle
Coworker
Ivan Sigal
Global Voices
Ben Cheng
Internet Society Hong Kong
Lulu Keng
Open Culture Foundation
Maame Akua Marfo
Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA), Young Feminist Collective (Ghana)
Peter Micek
Access Now
Bill Marczak
Citizen Lab
John Sarapata
Google
Paola Ricaurte
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
John Hering
Lookout & The Hering Foundation
Chris Lawrence
Grant for the Web
Jillian York
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Xavier Canal Masjuan
Red Hat
Jessica Fjeld
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Kevin Wed
DigitalOcean
Lucy Bernholz
Irene Poetranto
The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
Wendy Hanamura
Internet Archive
Bernard Tyers
OTF Advisory Council
Allison McDonald
University of Michigan
Zachary Weinberg
UMass-Amherst
Marcus Michaelsen
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Linghao Zhang
ETH Zurich
Bryan Nunez
Michael Dessen
Professor, University of California, Irvine
Lobsang Gyatso Sither
Tibet Action Institute
Emma Hornick
University of Iowa
Tessa Menatian
Media Democracy Fund
Luis Villa
Co-founder, Tidelift; board member emeritus, Open Source Initiative
Luke Stark
Microsoft Research
Qiang Xiao
China Digital Times
Pia Mancini
Open Collective
Yen-Tung Lin
UC Berkeley
Abdallah Alsalmi
BBC
Barbie Zelizer
Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania
Keri Lloyd
Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Masashi Nishihata
Nicole Leaver
Tufts University
Shariya Algama
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
SC Leung
ISOC Hong Kong
Clinton Gibson
University of California Davis
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