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Information Controls Fellowship Program Now Accepting Applications for Ninth Cohort
OTF’s Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) is open for applications for its ninth fellowship cohort, with a final deadline of March 13, 2022.
Automating Censorship Evasion Strategies to Unlock Closed Societies
IFF-supported Geneva project revolutionizes censorship circumvention via real-world deployment of genetic algorithms
OTF Conducts Security Audit of Hypha
Connecting and Building: Welcome to Our Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab
OTF is excited to announce the revamp of our Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab (formerly called “Usability Lab”) and share lessons learned from our community-led consultation and evaluation, which informed this update.
Methodologies and tools for open dialogue in the defense of digital rights
Sursiendo is a Mexican organization working to defend digital rights in order to achieve a more open and collaborative environment. As part of Sursiendo’s work, the organization has accompanied social organizations in digital care by working to ensure that skill-building processes are closer to contexts and methodologies adapted to each reality. That is why Sursiendo believes that analyzing one’s own actions is essential to improving this approach. Sursiendo’s collaboration with OTF has contributed to this direction.
GFWatch: A Longitudinal Measurement Platform Built to Monitor China's DNS Censorship at Scale
The following blog post is authored by Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) fellow Hoàng Nguyên Phong. As an ICFP fellow, Phong's research examines China’s DNS filtering mechanism, one of the techniques deployed by China's Great Firewall (GFW). DNS filtering is a process of interfering with DNS resolutions, which are used to map human-memorable domain names (such as "opentech.fund") to their hosting IP address(es), to prevent access to undesired content. Working with the host organization, Citizen Lab at University of Toronto, Phong built GFWatch, a measurement platform that allows researchers to continuously monitor the GFW’s DNS filtering behavior.
Open Technology Fund Announces 2020/2021 Internet Freedom Fund (IFF) Advisory Council Cohort
Request for Proposal for OTF Rapid Response Fund
Request for Proposal for OTF Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab
2019 ICFP Wrap Up
OTF’s sixth class of Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) fellows is a diverse group that is comprised of civil society and social science researchers, computer scientists and engineers. With the cohort’s fellowships completed, we’d like to highlight these fellows and the accomplishments they achieved during their time as ICFP fellows.
Investigative Series on Xinjiang Detention Camps Wins Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting
An investigative series funded by Open Technology Fund brought to light the scale of China’s internment of Uyghurs.
Understanding India’s Troubling Rise in Internet Shutdowns
ICFP fellow Kris Ruijgrok examines the motivations and decision-making processes behind the recent trend
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OTF to Accept Applications (May 17-June 30, 2021) for Information Controls Fellowship Program
Apply by June 30, 2021 to join OTF’s eighth ICFP fellowship cohort
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