OpenArchive Collaborates with FFDW and Hypha to Integrate Decentralized Storage into Save

Assessing Human Rights Defenders' Documentation Needs - Looking Back on OpenArchive’s first DAC Cohort

Harm Reduction for History’s First Responders -  Working with Decentralized Archivist Communities (DACs)

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

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

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

OpenArchive’s team is supporting human rights defenders in Ukraine to preserve evidence of Russian war crimes and other human rights atrocities.

Documenting Russian war crimes in Ukraine&#58; OpenArchive partners with Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

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 of 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.

Introducing Save

Amal

Investigator at a local Sudanese human rights organization

Anna

Researcher at a human rights organization

Arazu

Project Manager at human rights org

Darius

Freelance Videographer at a human rights organization

Diego

Investigation Coordinator

Elena

Lawyer

Gabriela

Documentary Photographer

Isabella

Freelance reporter and editor

Ivan

Project Coordinator at a Ukrainian Human Rights Group

Jaime

Program Investigator

Juanita

Researcher

Archivist at a human rights organization

Leila

Investigative Journalist with a local Sudanese media organization

Maribel

Miguel

Project Manager

Mohamed

Independent journalist and human rights defender in Iraq

Nadia

Documenter at a Ukrainian NGO partner organization

Nasser

Media Project Manager at a local Sudanese media organization

Noor

Researcher in Iraq

Oleksandra

Documenter and database manager at a Ukrainian NGO

Oscar

MENA

Personas