Funds

Two-thirds of the world’s population—nearly 5.5 billion people—live in a country where the global internet is censored.

And this number is only increasing as authoritarian governments around the world are harnessing technological advances to increase the scale, scope, and efficiency of digital repression.

As a result, we see increasingly sophisticated challenges to protect internet freedom, and see evolving community needs:

the constant evolution of repressive censorship and surveillance tactics
growing demand for anti-censorship tools
secure, privacy-enhancing technology to counter surveillance
shutdown-resilient tools that help people stay connected
rapid digital security support for at-risk communities
under-funding and under-support for the FOSS ecosystem

We fund technical solutions to address these and more.

Do you have a project that fits within the following areas?

Applied research to better understand where and how censorship is occurring, and the technical methods to combat it
Development & deployment of anti-censorship and privacy-enhancing technologies
Emergency, short-term digital security support for human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society groups
Long-term maintenance of established, free, and open source software projects underpinning the open, global internet
Sustaining large-scale, open source, anti-censorship tools operating in highly repressive contexts
Systemic improvements to the digital security ecosystem
Technology-focused convenings that empower internet freedom communities to collaborate and share knowledge