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