How We Created the First DWeb Mobile Backend in Save

OpenArchive Collaborates with FFDW and Hypha to Create the First DWeb Mobile Backend in Save

Reflections on Two Years of Collaborative Human Rights Archiving

Harm Reduction for History's First Responders

What truly defines a storage system as decentralized, beyond data distribution, is the underlying principle that the computers hosting the data are controlled by different entities and that no single entity exercises full control.

Mapping the Decentralized Storage Ecosystem

This Human Rights Day, OpenArchive is highlighting the important work our Decentralized Archivist Communities do to fight for a more just world for at-risk groups. They work to combat electoral violence, threats to the environment, gender-based violence, arbitrary detention, and many other pressing issues.

A Year in Review: Celebrating the impact of our Decentralized Archivist Communities

Las defensoras y defensores de los derechos humanos en México enfrentan crecientes amenazas por documentar los abusos a los derechos humanos en el país. Nuestra reciente evaluación de necesidades ofrece una visión sobre las realidades, desafíos y oportunidades que enfrentan las y los defensores de derechos humanos, periodistas y testigos presenciales en México mientras documentan y archivan evidencia de violencia e injusticia.

Memo desde Ciudad de México:  Examinando las necesidades de las comunidades de documentalistas trabajando en México

Mexican human rights defenders face increasing threats for documenting human rights abuses in the country. Our recent needs assessment offers insight into the realities, challenges, and opportunities faced by human rights defenders, journalists, and eyewitnesses in Mexico while documenting and archiving evidence of violence and injustice.

Memo from Mexico City: Examining the needs of documenter communities working in Mexico

Las defensoras y defensores de los derechos humanos en Cuba enfrentan crecientes amenazas por documentar la represión y violencia gubernamental. Nuestra reciente evaluación de necesidades ofrece una visión de las realidades, desafíos y oportunidades que los defensores de derechos humanos en el contexto cubano enfrentan mientras documentan y archivan evidencia de injusticia.

Memo desde Havana: Examinando las necesidades de las comunidades de documentalistas trabajando en Cuba

Cuban human rights defenders face increasing threats for documenting government repression and violence. Our recent needs assessment offers insight into the realities, challenges, and opportunities that human rights defenders in the Cuban context face while documenting and archiving evidence of injustice.

Memo from Havana: Examining the needs of documenter communities working in Cuba

Human rights archivists rely on encryption to protect at-risk communities, safeguard sensitive media, maintain data integrity, control access, and facilitate secure storage and transfer.

Preserving the Past, Protecting the Future: The Vital Role of Encryption in Media Preservation

Las defensoras y defensores de los derechos humanos en Ecuador enfrentan crecientes amenazas por su trabajo en la lucha contra los abusos derivados de las operaciones mineras. Nuestra reciente evaluación de necesidades sobre las comunidades que documentan y archivan evidencia de injusticia ofrece información sobre las realidades, desafíos y oportunidades que enfrentan estos defensores de derechos humanos en Ecuador.

Memo desde Quito: Entendiendo las necesidades de las comunidades documentadoras de Ecuador

Ecuadorian human rights defenders face increasing threats for their work combatting abuses by mining operations.

Memo from Quito: Understanding the Needs of Ecuador’s Documenter Communities

Through support from the Open Tech Fund's (OTF) Red Team Lab, OpenArchive successfully completed a third-party security audit conducted by Trail of Bits.

OTF & Trail of Bits’ Independent Security Audit of Save

In a moment of escalating conflict in Sudan, our recent needs assessment with a local human rights organization offers an insightful glimpse into the realities, challenges, and opportunities that Sudanese human rights defenders face as they document and archive evidence of injustice.

Memo from Khartoum: Responding to Documenters’ Needs in Escalating Conflict

OpenArchive is partnering with two human rights organizations in Latin America to strengthen archiving efforts and workflows in the region.

OpenArchive Launches New Partnerships in Latin America

In a moment when free speech is under direct threat in Iraq, our recent needs assessment with an Iraqi partner organization offers an insightful glimpse into the realities, challenges, and opportunities that Iraqi human rights defenders are facing as they document and archive evidence of injustice.

Memo from Baghdad: Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Iraqi Documenters

OpenArchive is partnering with digital rights defenders in Iraq to strengthen archiving efforts and workflows in the region.

OpenArchive Partners With Iraqi Human Rights Defenders

Our recent needs assessment offers an insightful glimpse into the realities, challenges, and opportunities that Ukrainian human rights defenders are facing in their efforts to document and expose war crimes.

Memo from Kharkiv: mapping the realities of Ukrainian documenter communities

How we build our organizational infrastructure for action

Archiving Forward Part 2 - Mapping Our Decentralized Ecosystem

A federal privacy bill may give Americans more control over their data but does not go far enough and would weaken existing state protections.

What you need to know about the United States’ latest privacy bill

OpenArchive receives Grant from FFDW to Help Secure, Share, and Store Critical Human Rights DataInformation on the Decentralized Web

FFDW and OpenArchive Collaborate to Deploy Decentralized Archive for Human Rights Data

Learn about what the benefits and drawbacks of preserving your media in the cloud

Archiving Forward Part 1 - Demystifying the Cloud

OpenArchive launches new app Save to help journalists and human rights advocates protect and preserve highly sensitive digital media.

OpenArchive launches Save

Why OpenArchive?

The OpenArchive team is proud to announce the launch of Save, our new mobile application that integrates privacy-enhancing technologies with digital media preservation to make media findable, verifiable, and archived for long-term access.

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