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Article 19

Washington, D.C.

Grants

2023 (2 years)
$300,000

Article 19 is an international human rights organization that focuses on the protection and promotion of freedom of expression and access to information. It works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination. The award provides flexible support to the organization’s Global Digital Programme. Since its inception in 2014, the Global Digital Programme has worked to build and strengthen human rights considerations in the design, development, and deployment of global Internet infrastructure technologies. It has three areas of focus: (1) Censorship – ensuring that all people have meaningful choices in how they connect to the internet and exercise their rights to speak and know; (2) Dataification – ensuring that people are not blocked or chilled from their right to speak, know, and protect because of data captured through the infrastructures that make up their public spaces; and (3) Connectivity – ensuring that people can exercise their rights to speak and know using internet infrastructure that is purposefully designed and deployed to enable the free flow of information. The Global Digital Programme’s work includes engagement within technical standards setting bodies, research and policy analysis.

2019 ( 1 month)
$5,000

The award supports a workshop September 12th – 13th convening technologists, academics and civil society experts focused on future paths for public internet infrastructure.

2019 (4 years 5 months)
$450,000

Article 19’s vision is a world in which all people can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination. Its mission is to promote and defend freedom of expression and information globally. The award provides flexible support to Article 19’s Team Digital, which works as a bridge between policy and technology, facilitating the design, implementation and regulation of internet infrastructure and related technology that enable people to fully exercise freedom of expression and other human rights. This work is done through influencing the development of internet standards that impact freedom of expression and related rights like the right to privacy in bodies such as the Internet Engineering Task Force and by direct engagement with internet infrastructure companies whose decisions impact human rights. Across its work, Team Digital seeks to help diversify the people who undertake public interest work within the internet infrastructure industry through a fellowship program and by helping to build and maintain global networks of advocates around the globe focused on the development and governance of the internet and related digital technology.

2017 ( 2 months)
$10,000

Article 19 is an international human rights organization headquartered in London that defends and promotes freedom of expression and freedom of information worldwide. The grant will support travel for civil society participation in a public interest technology strategy meeting and related activities during the Internet Engineering Task Force conference July 15-21 in Prague.