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Saving the present, transforming the future.

To create a more informed and just world, we co-develop secure mobile archiving tools with and for "histories' first responders" like eyewitnesses and documentarians to protect them and their media from digital threats. Always free, always open source.

Human Rights Archiving in practice

We safeguard our histories by co-creating tools to verify and securely route mobile media to community-maintained collections in public and private archives. Our work protects eyewitnesses and their evidentiary media from digital threats like surveillance, targeting, content removal, media manipulation, and other harms.

Our impact

Bolster Free Speech

We help those at risk safely share media without fear of retribution, targeting, and other malicious attacks.

Equip Communities

We equip communities with the tools and resources to preserve evidentiary media to exact accountability and justice.

Protect Sources/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

Save app

Save helps eyewitnesses preserve, protect, authenticate and amplify crucial records of human rights abuses. Download Save for iOS and Android.

Who we serve

Citizen reporters Eyewitnesses NGOs Documentarians Human Rights Defenders Legal Advocates Academics Newsrooms Archivists Librarians Historians

Anna
Anna

Researcher at a human rights organization

In the past, I would have transferred data to my laptop and uploaded it from there, but I don't do that anymore. I only upload media from my mobile device now.

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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