The Internet Freedom Fund is OTF’s primary way to support projects and people working on open and accessible technology-centric projects that promote human rights, Internet freedom, open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications networks for at-risk users including journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, and every-day people living within repressive environments who wish to speak freely online.

Priority areas:

• Creating new open source circumvention technologies that fill a current need of targeted users;
• Improving the security, usability, and adaptability of existing open source Internet freedom technologies.
• Providing new or deeper insights into the challenges of front-line communities that ultimately contribute to the improvement of technological solutions;
• Projects that emphasize applied research;
• Research that focuses on real-time monitoring and analysis of both technical and political threats to Internet freedom, including network interference and shutdowns;
• New content redistribution methods able to reintroduce content behind firewalls, or similar services;
• Making targeted communities more resilient to digital attacks via customized solutions in-line with OTF criteria;
• Creating new open source circumvention technologies that fill a current need of targeted users;
• Next-generation tools that move beyond traditional “cat-and-mouse” circumvention techniques;

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