{"id":6568,"date":"2025-04-10T02:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6568\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T02:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:04:21","slug":"apply-now-200000-for-internet-freedom-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6568\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply Now: $200,000 for Internet Freedom Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u21d3 More from ICTworks<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Wayan Vota on March 17, 2025 &#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/net-neutrality.png\" alt=\"Internet Access Funding\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion, expression, and the press, including the right to seek, receive, and impart information without interference through any media \u2013 and that the best way to protect these freedoms is to passionately support a free and open internet.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Freedom Funding<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentech.fund\/funds\/internet-freedom-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet Freedom Fund<\/a> supports innovative global internet freedom projects. These projects are focused on technology development and implementation, but can also include applied research, convenings, and digital security projects. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Creating new, open-source circumvention technologies<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Taking an existing open-source internet freedom technology and improving upon its security, usability, and adaptability<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Developing content redistribution methods to aid in content access behind government firewalls<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Next-generation tools<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Improving security standards, quality assurance, and best practices within core infrastructure projects<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Improving accessibility and usability of existing projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Fund prioritizes projects coming from individuals or organizations who are applying for the first time, identify as under-represented within the field, and address areas that are underfunded. Ideal applicants seek funding between $50,000 and $200,000 for efforts between 6 and 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Funding awards are performance-based contracts signed directly with the applicant or applicants. Funding is dispersed upon completion of stated objectives, activities, and deliverables per a schedule outlined in the contract.<\/p>\n<p>More Funding Opportunities<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/donors-support-digital-entrepreneurs-lmics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get startup investments<\/a>\u00a0for a technology business? Or learn how to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/win-grant-funding-startup-investments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">win more contracts<\/a>? Then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/inveneo\/subscribe-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please sign up now <\/a>to get our email updates. We are constantly publishing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/category\/funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new funding opportunities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNow Read These Related Posts\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top:10px;border-top:1px solid #ccc;\"><strong>Filed Under:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/category\/funding\/\" rel=\"category tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Funding<\/a> <br \/><strong>More About:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/digital-freedom\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digital freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/internet-access\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Access<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictworks.org\/tag\/project-funding\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project Funding<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/b94941f6a8bc374844f084add8e01460\" class=\"avatar avatar-68 photo wpfla round-avatars \" width=\"68\" height=\"68\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wayan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wayan Vota<\/a> co-founded ICTworks. He also co-founded Technology Salon, MERL Tech, ICTforAg, ICT4Djobs, ICT4Drinks, JadedAid, Kurante, OLPC News and a few other things.  Opinions expressed here are his own and do not reflect the position of his employer, any of its entities, or any ICTWorks sponsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u21d3 More from ICTworks &#13; By Wayan Vota on March 17, 2025 &#13; Everyone has the right to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[3787,3082,3788,3789,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-6568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-digital-freedom","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-internet-access","11":"tag-project-funding","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114311218055278014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}