In the COVID-19 era, connectivity is a necessity. Virtually all human activities – business, education, healthcare, politics, socializing – have moved online. Yet the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a dramatic decline in global internet freedom.
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State and nonstate actors in many countries are now exploiting opportunities created by the pandemic to shape online narratives, censor critical speech, and build new technological systems of social control.
$300,000 for Internet Freedom Initiatives
The Internet Freedom Fund supports projects advancing Internet freedom for users in repressive environments. Funding is for creating or promoting tools that allow users – including journalists, human rights defenders, activists, and regular people – to circumvent Internet censorship, communicate safely, and access information that is blocked.
Projects can apply for up to $300,000, with most supported efforts receiving between $50,000 and $200,000, and no less than $10,000 for a year long contract to fund:
- Creating new open source circumvention and internet freedom technologies
- Improving the security, usability, and adaptability of existing technologies;
- Providing deeper insights into front-line community challenges
- Research on real-time monitoring of network interference and shutdowns;
- New content redistribution methods for use behind firewalls
- Making targeted communities more resilient to digital attacks
The Internet Freedom Fund gives preference to organizations and individuals without a history of prior support, and who bring with them a deep understanding of the censorship, surveillance, and security issues affecting communities from the Global South living in repressive environments.
Apply Now! Deadline is September 1, 2021
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