Access is a new global movement for digital freedom.
Born out of the aftermath of the 2009 Iranian election, Access provides innovative, crowd-sourced tech tools to help return the political process to the people.
We support civil society, and political freedom movements in particular, to empower themselves through direct access to information technologies -- including automatically generated web based proxies, anonymous twitter relays, low bandwidth projects and a safe house for citizen media.
We’re building a global digital swat team -- the best and brightest digital activists who can be deployed at a moments notice or in anticipation of a net shutdown.
Our global digital freedom movement of citizens will form a global proxy cloud (hundreds of thousands of virtual machines), hovering over any country or region when access is denied.
In the offline world -- hard-fought rights have been won. Now, we must guarantee their protection in our online future.
We envision a world where citizens, regardless of frontiers, can be active participants in their future by freely seeking, receiving and imparting information digitally.
Latest news
U.S. Companies Selling China Surveillance? (EFF Deeplinks)
Iranian Cyber Army Takes Opposition Radio Offline (Bloomberg News)
Why is Mowjcamp Still Down 6 Weeks After Hack Attack? (AccessNow Blog)
Congressional Websites Hacked in Wake of Obama's State of the Union Address (Huffington Post)
AccessNow on Bill Gates and China (AOL News)
AccessNow in the NYTimes
AccessNow in PCWorld
AccessNow in the Wall Street Journal
World Rallies in Support of Google
Global petition launched for Google to stand strong
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