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Meet OTF’s Information Controls Fellowship Program 2024 Cohort
Open Technology Fund (OTF) welcomes 10 new Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) fellows who will advance research, analysis, and tool development to counter digital authoritarianism. Recognizing the scope and scale of autocratic information controls, this...
Questions & Answers from the ICFP Informational Sessions
Submit your application by 11:59 PM GMT on February 28, 2025 Table of Contents General Candidate Eligibility Location Eligibility Application Host Organization Evaluation Process Outputs General What are the primary objectives of the fellowship? The objectives are to...
China’s New Effort to Achieve Cyber Sovereignty
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is selectively and non-uniformly implementing Real-Name Registration (RNR) policies that are designed to chill discourse and encourage self-censorship on digital platforms. In the new report Blocked by Numbers: The Impact of...

OTF provides financial support for projects through these funds & fellowships >>
Internet Freedom Fund
The Internet Freedom Fund is OTF’s primary way to support projects and people working on open and accessible technology-focused projects that promote human rights, Internet freedom, open societies.
Rapid Response Fund
The Rapid Response Fund aims to facilitate the digital emergency response community to resolve threats in a timely and comprehensive manner for individuals, communities, and organizations whose free expression has recently been repressed.
Surge and Sustain Fund
The Surge and Sustain Fund is the primary way that OTF provides resources to leading VPN and circumvention solutions to support user costs in highly restrictive environments.
Information Controls Fellowship
The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive Internet censorship and surveillance.

OTF has supported 450+ projects to date.
Localization Lab
Making Internet freedom tools available in new languages.
Red Team Lab
Strengthening the security of open-source Internet freedom software.
Secure Usability & Accessibility Lab
The Usability Lab aims to increase user safety and promote practical Internet freedom.
Learning Lab
Telling the stories of projects and the results they produce.

OTF provides ongoing project support for security audits, usability and user safety, translations, and community learning.
OTF Key Impacts
2+ BILLION
global users circumvent online censorship with OTF-supported technologies
1+ MILLION
words translated in 240 languages and dialects
35+
advisory council members from academia, industry, and civil society
1042
projects received