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People will not (and should not) use tech that's untrustworthy. Too many tech projects, including civic tech projects, have abused user privacy and/or failed users in providing a secure user experience. Anyone advocating for increasing digitization of government, social benefits, or public conversation should invest in strong digital security and privacy-respecting approach from the onset and on an ongoing basis, as this area evolves rapidly.

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Defending Digital Campaigns

Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and attacks.

Deflect

Deflect

Canada

DDoS protection for civil society groups

Digital Freedom Fund Grants

Digital Freedom Fund Grants

Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 104-108 1012 SG Amsterdam The Netherlands

The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context.

AWO

AWO

Europe

We’re a new agency working across the world to shape, apply and enforce data rights. We have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working out of offices in London, Brussels and Paris.

Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA)

La coalición Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA) se crea para desafiar la falta de control democrático, transparencia y rendición de cuentas en el uso y adquisición de sistemas de toma de decisiones automatizadas e inteligencia artificial en España.

Círculo

Keep yourself and your community safe with Círculo, an app easy to use that allows you to send check-ins and urgent alerts in a fast and private way.

Fight for the Future

We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression.✊

JAAKLAC initiative

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

Data Privacy Day

An international effort to empower individuals and business to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust.

The Glass Room

The Glass Room

SoHo, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

a three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.

Citizen Lab Summer Institute

The Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) provides a unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and develop new and exciting research that addresses pressing questions for the Internet.

Project Shield

Project Shield

New York, NY

Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

Guardian Project

Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.

Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund

Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

The lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer experience for people experiencing repressive information controls online.

Rarenet

Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.

Mission Billion Challenge

to surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.

Outline

Outline

New York, NY

Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.

Blacklight

Blacklight

New York, NY

A privacy tool that lets you scan any website and see how you are being surveilled

Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA

Established in 2003, guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, the Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all.

Small Media

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.

Digital Integrity Fellowship

Digital Integrity Fellowship

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

The Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.

Mailfence

Mailfence

Rue Middelbourg, Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

Data Justice Lab

Data Justice Lab

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data

Open Internet for Democracy

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

OpenTrustwire

Trustwire gives you strong end-to-end encryption while keeping it simple to use. Trustwire is web-based, so users don't need to download or install apps, and they can manage or exchange files whether they are overseas or just down the street.

Information Controls Fellowship

Information Controls Fellowship

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Raoul Wallenberg Place Southwest, Washington, DC, USA

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.

Project Defenders Sustainable Emergency Grants

Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.

Social Media Exchange (SMEX)

Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments

Outline VPN offered in Zimbabwe

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund

Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

Open Tech Fund's list of funders

OTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.

Colnodo

Colnodo

Colnodo, Diagonal 40a, Bogota, Colombia

Digital security training and resources in Colombia

Gender and Technology Resources wiki

This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”.

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

Privacy International

Privacy International

62 Britton Street, London EC1M 5UY, UK

We’re here to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from the powerful institutions who breach public trust.

Fundación Karisma

Fundación Karisma

Transversal 22a #59-44, Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

Organización de la sociedad civil que trabaja en la promoción de los derechos humanos en el mundo digital

Digital Attack Map

Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now

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