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Two-thirds of the world’s population—nearly 5.5 billion people—live in a country where the global internet is censored.
And this number is only increasing as authoritarian governments around the world are harnessing technological advances to increase the scale, scope, and efficiency of digital repression.
As a result, we see increasingly sophisticated challenges to protect internet freedom, and see evolving community needs:
We fund technical solutions to address these and more.
Do you have a project that fits within the following areas?
Check out the funding options below to learn more.
Our Applicant Guidebook can help you with the application process.
Facing a clear, time-sensitive, state-sponsored digital emergency and need short-term, urgent digital security support?
Does your project idea support the long-term maintainability, interoperability, reproducibility, security, and resilience of the internet freedom technology ecosystem?
Need support for user costs for your large-scale, open source VPN or anti-censorship tool to respond to demand in repressive information contexts?
Have an idea for an innovative technology or research project that helps people facing repressive censorship and/or surveillance?
Interested in researching the technical orchestration of repressive information controls and the methods to combat it?
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