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We fund & support open technology projects that promote human rights and open societies. We help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications networks.

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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 >>

OTF has supported 450+ projects to date.

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.

Lab Fact

OTF has supported 450+ projects to date.

OTF provides service & training support for projects through these resource labs:
Localization Lab

Localization Lab

Making Internet freedom tools available in new languages.

Red Team Lab

Red Team Lab

Strengthening the security of open-source Internet freedom software.

Localization Lab

Secure Usability & Accessibility Lab

The Usability Lab aims to increase user safety and promote practical Internet freedom.

Localization Lab

Learning Lab

Telling the stories of projects and the results they produce.

Lab Fact

OTF provides ongoing project support for security audits, usability and user safety, translations, and community learning.

OTF New Projects: Developing Test Lists for Censored Online Content

Improving the quality of internet censorship measurements

OTF New Projects: SynthMorph

Censorship-resistant tool that mimics user interactions with services like videoconferencing

OTF New Projects: InterSecLab

Digital forensics laboratory in Brazil working with CSOs to monitor & map threats facing vulnerable communities

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

OTF HAS PROVIDED RAPID RESPONSE ASSISTANCE FOR DIGITAL EMERGENCIES IN

20+

COUNTRIES GLOBALLY.