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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Open Technology Fund Files Suit at the Court of Federal Claims: Seeks $20 Million in Internet Freedom Funding Unjustifiably Withheld (Press Release)

Last updated: 2020-08-24 17:44

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