Nuevas convocatorias Digital Defenders

The Digi­tal Defen­ders Part­ners­hip (DDP) is plea­sed to announce the opening of two calls for grant appli­ca­ti­ons: for Sustai­na­ble Protec­tion Funding and Regi­o­nal Part­ners­hip Funding.

Through Sustai­na­ble Protec­tion Funding, DDP will support human rights orga­ni­sa­ti­ons (inclu­ding jour­na­lists, grass-roots social move­ments, etc) build their digi­tal secu­rity capa­ci­ties over a longer period with grants of up to €50,000 for a period of 1 year star­ting in August or Septem­ber 2020.

Sustai­na­ble Protec­tion Funding can be used to cover a number of costs, which contri­bute to strengt­he­ning an orga­ni­sa­tion or collec­ti­ve’s capa­city to respond to digi­tal thre­ats. These can include, for exam­ple:

New compu­ters, servers, or hosting for data or websi­tes;

Migra­tion to more secure plat­forms;

Tech­ni­cal support in imple­men­ting new systems;

Trai­ning or accom­pa­ni­ment proces­ses on digi­tal secu­rity or other aspects of secu­rity and protec­tion;

Measu­res to improve physi­cal secu­rity (which relate to infor­ma­tion manage­ment and digi­tal secu­rity)

Measu­res to address the psycho­lo­gi­cal and psycho­so­cial impacts of digi­tal thre­ats.

You can find out more about how to apply on the Sustai­na­ble Protec­tion Funding section of our website

Through Regi­o­nal Part­ners­hip Funding, DDP will support initi­a­ti­ves (orga­ni­sa­ti­ons or collec­ti­ves) promo­ting online free­dom and protec­tion of human rights defen­ders from a holis­tic pers­pec­tive, with grants of up to €50,000 for a period of 1 year star­ting in August or Septem­ber 2020.

A wide vari­ety of acti­vi­ties in support of inter­net free­dom and/or protec­tion of human rights defen­ders can be suppor­ted through Regi­o­nal Part­ners­hip Funding. These can include, but are not limi­ted to:

Suppor­ting inter­net access in cases of shut­downs, slow­downs, censors­hip or infras­truc­tu­ral damage;

Trai­ning or accom­pa­ni­ment on digi­tal secu­rity, or other aspects of secu­rity and protec­tion to human rights defen­ders at risk;

Expert advice, digi­tal foren­sic analy­sis, hosting or other tech­ni­cal servi­ces to civil soci­ety;

Lobby and advo­cacy work for digi­tal rights and inter­net free­dom;

Cove­rage of core costs for orga­ni­sa­ti­ons or collec­ti­ves with parti­cu­larly high poten­tial for impact and limi­ted alter­na­tive oppor­tu­ni­ties in this regard.

You can find out more about how to apply on the Regi­o­nal Part­ners­hip Funding section of our website

The dead­line for Concept Notes for both funding types—to be based on the ques­ti­ons in the atta­ched docu­ments—is 22 May 2020. Projects which are short-listed will then be invi­ted to submit full appli­ca­ti­ons.

Finally, as those of you who clic­ked on the links above may have noti­ced, we are also deligh­ted to announce the launch of our newly rede­sig­ned website at https://digi­tal­de­fen­ders.org, with beau­ti­ful designs by the artist Diana Moreno. We hope you will find this website a useful source of infor­ma­tion about our program­mes and ongoing deve­lop­ments.

If you have any ques­ti­ons, please do not hesi­tate to get in touch with us. We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards

The Digi­tal Defen­ders Part­ners­hip Team