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 funds from 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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Joint letter: OTF Shake-up Highlights Need for Diverse Funding for Internet Freedom Projects

Last updated: 2020-11-16 14:00

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