Engineering Lab at Open Tech Fund

The lab focuses on supporting the implementation and inclusion of established technologies into existing applications, organizations, and communities that are advancing Internet freedom, supporting the initial/bootstrap operating and infrastructure costs associated with getting deployments online, and, finally, conducting one-off assessments of existing apps or websites for recommended privacy, security, or anti-censorship improvements. All of this work will be conducted either by service partners or applicants themselves—with triage and oversight by an OTF.

The goals of this lab are to:

Facilitate easier widespread adoption of underlying privacy, security, and circumvention technologies that advance Internet freedom (many of which OTF has incubated in the past);
Gain a better sense of the effort and costs required to enhance existing systems (i.e., web and mobile apps relied upon by high-risk folks) with these technologies; and
Support greater availability of alternate core infrastructures that address the unique needs of Internet freedom software developers, the people who deploy and maintain the technology, and the community of end-users who rely upon it.
The lab focuses on supporting the implementation and inclusion of established technologies into existing applications, organizations, and communities that are advancing Internet freedom, supporting the initial/bootstrap operating and infrastructure costs associated with getting deployments online, and, finally, conducting one-off assessments of existing apps or websites for recommended privacy, security, or anti-censorship improvements. All of this work will be conducted either by service partners or applicants themselves—with triage and oversight by an OTF.