The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is a non-profit organization committed to advancing global Internet freedom. OTF supports projects focused on counteracting repressive censorship and surveillance, enabling citizens worldwide to exercise their fundamental human rights online.
Types of assistance offered by the organisation:
Funding
Digital security
Target group: human rights defenders, journalists, researchers
Operates worldwide
The Rapid Response Fund is OTF’s digital emergency response mechanism, providing short-term, urgently needed support in the face of time-sensitive internet freedom violations. If you or your organization work in the fields of human rights, activism, or journalism and media and have recently experienced a digital emergency, our Rapid Response Fund may be able to help, either through direct financial support or through technological services conducted by our trusted service partners.
Funding
Digital security
Target group: human rights defenders, journalists, researchers
Operates worldwide
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.
Funding
Digital security
Target group: human rights defenders, journalists, researchers
Operates worldwide
The Technology at Scale Fund is the primary means through which OTF directly supports the technology needs of USAGM broadcast networks, journalists, and their audiences.
Career support
Funding
Target group: human rights defenders, journalists, researchers
Operates worldwide
OTF Resource Labs are a general set of mechanisms utilized by the program to offset its current inability to provide long-term funding support. The Labs are recognition that the community of Internet freedom and digital human-rights defenders require continuous sustenance rather than limited projects and constant re-application processes.
