Broadcasting Board of Governors

Office of Freedom $13.8M The Office of Internet Freedom (OIF) the BBG’s mission to inform, engage, FY18 internet within the Broadcasting Board of and connect people around the world freedom budget Governors (BBG), oversees the efforts in support of freedom and democracy, of BBG-funded Internet Freedom (IF) OIF provides appropriate anti-censorship projects, including the work carried out technologies and services to citizens 2016 by the Open Technology Fund (OTF), a and journalists living in repressive OIF established Absorbing the Internet BBG-nonprofit grantee and a division environments. OIF also supports global Anti-Censorship of Radio Free Asia. In coordination with education and awareness of IF matters, Division, established OTF, OIF manages and supports the enhancing users’ ability to safely access in 2002 research, development, deployment, and and share digital news and information use of BBG-funded IF technologies via without fear of repressive censorship 2012 third party contractors. Consistent with or surveillance. OTF established

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Current Projects Psiphon Case Study MOBILE During the Iranian protests in early January 2018, BBG governments, as well as application Psiphon Mobile App is a added over 75,000 new users program interface (API) access in 3 days. The websites of VOA mobile version of Psiphon’s to allow integration of Psiphon’s Persian and RFE/RL Radio anti-censorship virtual private circumvention layer into apps Farda delivered a total of over network (VPN) software that 1.1 million page views per day to deployed by BBG broadcasters. enables unfettered Internet Psiphon users throughout the protests. access to citizens of repressive K-9 Mail is the most widely used EVALUATION AND encrypted email platform for REPORTING BBG Expansion Android, with between 5 and 10 and Collaboration million downloads and availability in Red Team Lab provides more than 30 languages. independent technology audits to OIF collaborates with other internet freedom projects to verify federal government entities, NewNode is the first decentralized any security or privacy claims including the U.S. State peer-to-peer content delivery offered to the public. protocol, enabling data distribution Department and U.S. Agency free from censorship, spying, Adversary Lab is a new real-time for International Development and attack. analysis engine that can analyze (USAID), to combat censorship captured network traffic to extract and surveillance activities by statistical properties and determine DESKTOP repressive regimes around the their ability to evade censors. world. OIF is seeking to forge Psiphon is an open source web- Sub-Saharan Africa Cyber similar relationships with based proxy and desktop client Threat Modeling will detect, private and nonprofit anti-censorship VPN software document, and analyze current sector entities. that enables unfettered Internet and emerging cyber threats with access to citizens of repressive a long term goal to mitigate their governments with customized impact on users at risk in specific versions to promote BBG Sub-Saharan African countries CLOUD SERVICES broadcast services. especially around elections. Eclipis.is As part of the OTF NoScript is a popular privacy Specifically the project will study Engineering Lab, internet freedom and security enhancing browser Ethiopia, Rwanda, Nigeria, Kenya, projects can request access to extension for Mozilla Firefox and is Cameroon, Zimbabwe and South a secure cloud infrastructure in pre-installed in the Browser. Sudan. order to research, develop, and NoScript increases the safety Rapid Response Fund is part deploy their tools and services in of online browsing by restricting of a broader initiative which aims secure and strategically located the use of online content often to facilitate the development of a environments around the globe. misused by repressive actors to strong digital emergency response either track an individual’s Internet community that can work together GlobaLeaks is an open-source usage or to compromise their to resolve threats in a timely and secure submission framework, computer via in-browser scripts. comprehensive manner. allowing media organizations, activist groups, corporations Mailvelope is a browser extension and public agencies to set up that brings the privacy and security DATA AGGREGATION their own secure whistleblowing of PGP encryption to webmail platform. The platform is secure clients for services such as Gmail, Analytics Central is BBG internal while maintaining usability for Yahoo! and others while also being portal that aggregates information average users, empowering anyone configurable for use on private about censorship circumvention to easily set up and maintain a email servers that offer a web tool usage. Quick-access data GlobaLeaks instance. client experience. will foster rapid responses to new censorship attempts by anti- NewNode is the first decentralized internet freedom governments. peer-to-peer content delivery protocol, enabling data distribution free from censorship, spying, and attack.

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