Helping eyewitnesses preserve truth to power
Anyone with a phone can expose injustice. OpenArchive helps history's first responders safely store, verify, and share critical evidence. We conduct co-research, build tools, and create guides that advance human rights every day.
Human Rights Archiving in practice
OpenArchive is dedicated to protecting media freedom: preserving, amplifying, and securely routing mobile media to community-maintained collections in accessible public and private archives, outside the corporate walled gardens currently dominating the online media ecosystem.
Our impact
Bolster Free Speech
We help those at risk safely share media without fear of retribution, targeting, and other malicious attacks.
Empower Communities
We equip communities with the tools and resources to preserve evidentiary media to exact accountability and justice.
Protect Sources and Media
Our tools and guides mitigate surveillance, interception, misuse, and media manipulation.
Create Standards
We work at the forefront of digital freedom, contributing research and emergent best practices for archiving sensitive mobile media.
Our projects
Who we serve
Citizen reporters • Eyewitnesses • Activists • Documentarians • Human Rights Defenders • Legal Advocates • Academics • Newsrooms • Archivists • Librarians • Historians
Testimonials
We must bring justice to the Ukrainian victims of Russian atrocities. It is crucial to document these horrific war crimes and ensure we preserve and verify this evidence effectively and securely. OpenArchive is playing a critical role to help us bolster this process. With their help, we are able to implement more streamlined ways to document war crimes with new technologies and create a more robust and secure archive. Our partnership is invaluable!
Yevgeniy Zakharov
The Save app fills a long-standing need to provide secure, fully encrypted and self-hosted file transfer for our staff all over the world. OpenArchive carefully listened to our needs, built an intuitive app, and tailored its features to make human rights data safer, and my job a whole lot easier.
Senior Archivist
Human rights NGO
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Together, we can preserve truth to power!
