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Overview
| Donor: | Open Technology Fund (OTF) |
| Application procedure: | Online Application |
| Donor base: | United States |
| Reference number: | - |
| Eligible applicants: | Individual, Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business |
| Deadline: | ongoing |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Small - up to $100,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | 1.000$ |
| Total available budget: | - |
| Funding type: | Grants |
| Maximum grant size: | 50.000$ |
| Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Governance & Democracy
- Human Rights
- Media & Journalism
- Research, Technology & Innovation
Project Locations
America
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
Asia
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen
Europe
Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Pacific
Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Description
1) Objective
The Rapid Response Fund aims to facilitate the digital emergency response community to resolve threats in a timely and comprehensive manner for individuals, communities, and organizations whose free expression has recently been repressed. To resolve digital emergencies, OTF offers both direct financial support as well as technical services from trusted partners to high-risk people and organizations, such as bloggers, cyber activists, journalists, and human rights defenders. It offers two types of support to organizations, activists, journalists, and other human rights defenders facing digital attacks and emergencies of various kinds: (1) technological services from trusted service partners; and (2) direct financial support for the many needs that cannot be fulfilled by available service partners. For either form of support, the process starts with a single application. Support is only available through the Rapid Response Fund when there is a clear time-sensitive digital emergency in which an applicant is seeking short-term and urgent support.
Activities include: (1) establishing new Internet connections (such as VPNs) when existing connections have been cut off or are being restricted; (2) providing personal digital protection for online journalists, human rights defenders, NGOs, activists and bloggers; (3) rapid development of tools or translations needed to respond adequately to emergencies; (4) developing decentralized, mobile Internet applications that can link computers as an independent network (mesh or delay-tolerant networks); and (5) any appropriate response to digital emergencies not listed here.
2) Eligibility
Eligible are individuals and groups.
3) Location
Actions can take place worldwide.
4) Budget
Grants may range from $1,000-$50,000. Average support amounts are between $5,000 and $25,000 .
5) Application
They accept and review applications for the Rapid Response Fund on an ongoing basis as they’re received. There are no deadlines or application rounds for Rapid Response. This ensures that digital emergencies can be addressed in real time. They aim to assess Rapid Response applications as quickly as possible, with a goal of making funding determinations within 5 days.