The DAC program builds partnerships between OpenArchive and organizations creating and managing mobile media archives. Through these collaborations, we gain valuable insights on our partners' needs. This research allows us to adapt and update the Save app as well as customize workshops, trainings, and guides to the partners. We share our research findings to share with the wider community of archival and human rights practitioners and scholars.
Most importantly, the communities we work with are able to grow or strengthen their archiving and documentation processes. Through the DAC program, partners will benefit from:
The program framework is customized to match DAC partners’ most pressing needs and meet communities where they are.
We have global partnerships with “Decentralized Archivist Communities” (DACs) to support, steward, and promote secure, decentralized archiving efforts to ensure their documentation is safe and accessible for the long-term.
Are you interested in working towards a more equitable and representative media landscape where your voices are heard and preserved? If so, contact Us to learn more about becoming a DAC partner!
Our work is a result of more than a decade of applied research and collaboration with communities and organizations around the world. Through these collaborations, we do co-research and co-design with them to better understand and meet our their usability, technological, security, and preservation needs.
To learn more about those we serve, explore the use cases we've built through our community partnerships in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the United States, and the MENA region.