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CDR Link’s help desk applications run via Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp channels, and provide organizations with a dashboard from which they can streamline responses to digital security support requests. Open Technology Fund’s Security Lab partner Assured AB - Security Consultants recently audited Center for Digital Resilience’s CDR Link to ensure it is as safe as possible for users. Learn more: https://ow.ly/HzaR50YRlTM

Open Technology Fund’s Impact & Engagement Lab helps technology-focused internet freedom projects effectively communicate about their work through editorial and design support services. These services ensure people in authoritarian contexts learn about and adopt the technologies that provide access to the global internet securely and privately. Apply to join the Lab by May 15, 2026! Learn more: https://ow.ly/XOUe50YJZcC

Open Technology Fund’s Security Lab partner 7ASecurity recently audited Bitpart to ensure it is as safe as possible for users. Learn more: https://ow.ly/R13V50YzYc8

It is critical that people living in authoritarian contexts learn about the technologies that provide access to the open internet privately and securely. Open Technology Fund’s Impact & Engagement Lab partners with writers, editors, and designers to help OTF-supported internet freedom projects effectively communicate about their work in order to contribute to audience adoption in the world’s most repressive-information contexts. We are currently soliciting proposals from individuals and organizations interested in providing editorial and design support services for our Impact & Engagement Lab. Learn more and apply by May 15, 2026: https://ow.ly/84ja50YIeJ9

eQualitie's dComms platform helps users in repressive information contexts create their own communications networks, such as secure messaging systems and social networking services. Unlike cloud-based platforms, dComms’ self-hosted networking solutions offer resilient, internet shutdown-resistant infrastructure. Open Technology Fund’s Security Lab partner 7ASecurity recently audited the dComms platform to ensure it offers users the best possible security. Learn more: https://ow.ly/GsvV50YzXXN

Geph VPN has connected millions of people facing repressive information controls to the global internet. Its design prevents authoritarian censors from associating browser activity with user identity. Open Technology Fund’s Security Lab partner Atredis Partners recently audited Geph VPN to ensure it is as safe as possible for users. Learn more: https://ow.ly/cspP50YzTsn

GitHub is proud to be supporting the new funding round of the Open Technology Funds FOSS Sustainability Fund! Internet freedom technologies rely on a stack of foundational open source technologies and protocols whose maintenance is critical to access to information and freedom of expression worldwide. Learn more and apply by May 7, 2026.

Ensuring a sustainable free, open source ecosystem is critical to the development, maintenance, and reliability of the anti-censorship and privacy-preserving technologies that millions of users in repressive contexts around the world rely upon. However, these internet freedom technologies should not be created in isolation; they are most impactful if other developers can easily and securely fork, improve, update, and integrate code into solutions addressing regionally-specific and ever-evolving censorship contexts and user needs. For the continued iteration and innovation of the open source internet freedom tech stack, there are foundational requirements around maintenance, quality documentation, interoperability, and reproducibility that must be met by projects committed to long-term sustainability and resilience. Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Fund is currently soliciting applications from established, free and open source internet freedom tools in need of support related to these foundational requirements. Details related to the full scope, eligibility requirements, timeline, multi-stage process, funding ranges, and other key information are available in the solicitation. We are grateful to GitHub for contributing to this round of the FOSS Sustainability Fund! Learn more and apply by May 7, 2026: https://ow.ly/GUw950YzaFf

⏳Last call to apply to join Open Technology Fund’s Security Lab as a partner! We are seeking cybersecurity experts interested in strengthening the security of privacy-enhancing and anti-censorship technologies used in authoritarian contexts. Submit your proposal by March 25, 2026: https://ow.ly/2yr150YeA72

Deadline to apply to be a partner with Open Technology Fund's Security Lab extended to March 25, 2026! We’re extending the deadline in order to answer questions in a timely manner prior to the end date of the Request for Proposals. Submit questions by March 13 to security_lab@opentech.fund! Learn more: https://ow.ly/zVqn50YrOwb