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  string(13645) "If you are joining us at RightsCon in Toronto, hopefully you have already started exploring the program and curating your personal schedule. This is quite a challenging task this year with nearly 20 sessions happening simultaneously, every one of which will tackle a critical aspect of human rights in the digital age. 

With so many amazing sessions to choose from, we wanted to take a moment to recognize the contribution that Access Now grantees are making to the program and to the RightsCon community, and encourage you to check out some of the sessions they are speaking on and organizing. Please note that, due to concerns for their security, we can’t publicly disclose all Access Now grantees.

Access Now Grants’ mission is to defend and extend the digital rights of users, especially those most at risk. Civil society around the globe is working under increasingly difficult circumstances, against targeted censorship, restrictions on operations, and threats to their physical safety. And for human rights defenders, women, LGBTQI people, journalists, and others, the very act of posting something on social media is often an act of defiance and extraordinary courage. As the digital space becomes central to human rights battles, it is also a space where marginalization, societal discrimination, and violence can be reproduced and even amplified. Access Now recognizes that we need more activists around the world, better resourced to fight alongside us for human rights in the digital age. We are proud to support the critical work of the following organizations and groups, and many others that we cannot list here:
Wednesday May 16th

 	Turkey Blocks — Combating shutdowns with COST: A data driven policy tool for internet freedom 
 	Internet Sans Frontières — Shedding light on internet blackouts
 	Coding Rights — Challenging our own digital security training communication and didactics
 	SurSiendo, iFreedom Uganda — Innovation on the frontlines: how grassroots activists are utilizing technology to enhance their work 
 	Visualizing Impact — Documenting ICT companies' impact on civic freedoms & human rights defenders

Thursday May 17th

 	KICTANet, Rudi International — Digital security for civil societies in Africa
 	Fundación Karisma — Women’s voices co-create the internet 
 	Internet Sans Frontières — Lightning Talk - Fact checking: fake news and the roles of the press in Africa
 	Fundación Acceso — Changes and Challenges, scary but necessary: Facing challenges in digital security training models and how change could become a fantastic tool to achieve creative solutions
 	Coding Rights — Offline doesn’t exist anymore  
 	Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice — Digital landscapes of trans-activism in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Threats, opportunities and resistance
 	Paradigm Initiative — Electoral choices and Artificial Intelligence: The need for transnational collaboration in Africa
 	7amleh, Visualizing Impact — Defending minority voices on a censored internet
 	Social Media Exchange — Tech Demo Block #4 - CASEDATA - A collaborative, intersectional database of Global South digital rights legislation & case law
 	KICTANet, Turkey Blocks — When repressive authorities #KeepItOn
 	Syrian Archive — Building an open source tech stack for open source investigation
 	7amleh — Countering hate or suppressing speech? The case of Israel/Palestine

Friday May 18

 	Acoso.Online, Fundación Karisma — Don't say you don't know. Learn concrete tools to provide meaningful help to victims of non-consensual pornography on the internet from the Global South
 	KICTANet — Observing tech in elections
 	Paradigm Initiative — Litigating internet shutdowns in Africa: identifying blurred lines and roadmaps
 	Open Culture Foundation — Trainers Unite: experience exchange of digital security trainers
 	Fundación Karisma — Lawbitrage: developments in cross-border search engine regulation
 	Paradigm Initiative — A technologist, a policy wonk, and an Internet freedom advocate walk into a bar: Assessing how internet communities build bridges for human rights
 	Internet Sans Frontières — Tactics for advancing digital rights in developing economies and challenging political contexts: an RDR perspective
 	Coding Rights — Frontiers of feminist issues online: understanding the tensions and opportunities at the intersection of innovation, digital rights and security
 	ASCAMTA — Community infrastructure for activists: Security and shutdown circumvention
 	Open Culture Foundation — Another brick in the firewall: China’s growing threat to local, regional, and global civil society
 	Bahrain Watch, Paradigm Initiative — Global perspectives on fighting social media censorship
 	Fundación Karisma — Quién Defiende Tus Datos: The latest on holding telecoms accountable with rating report throughout Latin America and Spain
 	Bahrain Watch — Freedoms constrained: How Western-made surveillance technology is used for rights abuses in the Middle East and North Africa
 	Fundación Karisma — Information controls in Latin America: censorship in different layers and nuances
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Access Now Grants’ mission is to defend and extend the digital rights of users, especially those most at risk. Civil society around the globe is working under increasingly difficult circumstances, against targeted censorship, restrictions on operations, and threats to their physical safety. And for human rights defenders, women, LGBTQI people, journalists, and others, the very act of posting something on social media is often an act of defiance and extraordinary courage. As the digital space becomes central to human rights battles, it is also a space where marginalization, societal discrimination, and violence can be reproduced and even amplified. Access Now recognizes that we need more activists around the world, better resourced to fight alongside us for human rights in the digital age. We are proud to support the critical work of the following organizations and groups, and many others that we cannot list here:
Wednesday May 16th

 	Turkey Blocks — Combating shutdowns with COST: A data driven policy tool for internet freedom 
 	Internet Sans Frontières — Shedding light on internet blackouts
 	Coding Rights — Challenging our own digital security training communication and didactics
 	SurSiendo, iFreedom Uganda — Innovation on the frontlines: how grassroots activists are utilizing technology to enhance their work 
 	Visualizing Impact — Documenting ICT companies' impact on civic freedoms & human rights defenders

Thursday May 17th

 	KICTANet, Rudi International — Digital security for civil societies in Africa
 	Fundación Karisma — Women’s voices co-create the internet 
 	Internet Sans Frontières — Lightning Talk - Fact checking: fake news and the roles of the press in Africa
 	Fundación Acceso — Changes and Challenges, scary but necessary: Facing challenges in digital security training models and how change could become a fantastic tool to achieve creative solutions
 	Coding Rights — Offline doesn’t exist anymore  
 	Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice — Digital landscapes of trans-activism in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Threats, opportunities and resistance
 	Paradigm Initiative — Electoral choices and Artificial Intelligence: The need for transnational collaboration in Africa
 	7amleh, Visualizing Impact — Defending minority voices on a censored internet
 	Social Media Exchange — Tech Demo Block #4 - CASEDATA - A collaborative, intersectional database of Global South digital rights legislation & case law
 	KICTANet, Turkey Blocks — When repressive authorities #KeepItOn
 	Syrian Archive — Building an open source tech stack for open source investigation
 	7amleh — Countering hate or suppressing speech? The case of Israel/Palestine

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 	Acoso.Online, Fundación Karisma — Don't say you don't know. Learn concrete tools to provide meaningful help to victims of non-consensual pornography on the internet from the Global South
 	KICTANet — Observing tech in elections
 	Paradigm Initiative — Litigating internet shutdowns in Africa: identifying blurred lines and roadmaps
 	Open Culture Foundation — Trainers Unite: experience exchange of digital security trainers
 	Fundación Karisma — Lawbitrage: developments in cross-border search engine regulation
 	Paradigm Initiative — A technologist, a policy wonk, and an Internet freedom advocate walk into a bar: Assessing how internet communities build bridges for human rights
 	Internet Sans Frontières — Tactics for advancing digital rights in developing economies and challenging political contexts: an RDR perspective
 	Coding Rights — Frontiers of feminist issues online: understanding the tensions and opportunities at the intersection of innovation, digital rights and security
 	ASCAMTA — Community infrastructure for activists: Security and shutdown circumvention
 	Open Culture Foundation — Another brick in the firewall: China’s growing threat to local, regional, and global civil society
 	Bahrain Watch, Paradigm Initiative — Global perspectives on fighting social media censorship
 	Fundación Karisma — Quién Defiende Tus Datos: The latest on holding telecoms accountable with rating report throughout Latin America and Spain
 	Bahrain Watch — Freedoms constrained: How Western-made surveillance technology is used for rights abuses in the Middle East and North Africa
 	Fundación Karisma — Information controls in Latin America: censorship in different layers and nuances
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 	Internet Sans Frontières — Shedding light on internet blackouts
 	Coding Rights — Challenging our own digital security training communication and didactics
 	SurSiendo, iFreedom Uganda — Innovation on the frontlines: how grassroots activists are utilizing technology to enhance their work 
 	Visualizing Impact — Documenting ICT companies' impact on civic freedoms & human rights defenders

Thursday May 17th

 	KICTANet, Rudi International — Digital security for civil societies in Africa
 	Fundación Karisma — Women’s voices co-create the internet 
 	Internet Sans Frontières — Lightning Talk - Fact checking: fake news and the roles of the press in Africa
 	Fundación Acceso — Changes and Challenges, scary but necessary: Facing challenges in digital security training models and how change could become a fantastic tool to achieve creative solutions
 	Coding Rights — Offline doesn’t exist anymore  
 	Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice — Digital landscapes of trans-activism in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Threats, opportunities and resistance
 	Paradigm Initiative — Electoral choices and Artificial Intelligence: The need for transnational collaboration in Africa
 	7amleh, Visualizing Impact — Defending minority voices on a censored internet
 	Social Media Exchange — Tech Demo Block #4 - CASEDATA - A collaborative, intersectional database of Global South digital rights legislation & case law
 	KICTANet, Turkey Blocks — When repressive authorities #KeepItOn
 	Syrian Archive — Building an open source tech stack for open source investigation
 	7amleh — Countering hate or suppressing speech? The case of Israel/Palestine

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 	KICTANet — Observing tech in elections
 	Paradigm Initiative — Litigating internet shutdowns in Africa: identifying blurred lines and roadmaps
 	Open Culture Foundation — Trainers Unite: experience exchange of digital security trainers
 	Fundación Karisma — Lawbitrage: developments in cross-border search engine regulation
 	Paradigm Initiative — A technologist, a policy wonk, and an Internet freedom advocate walk into a bar: Assessing how internet communities build bridges for human rights
 	Internet Sans Frontières — Tactics for advancing digital rights in developing economies and challenging political contexts: an RDR perspective
 	Coding Rights — Frontiers of feminist issues online: understanding the tensions and opportunities at the intersection of innovation, digital rights and security
 	ASCAMTA — Community infrastructure for activists: Security and shutdown circumvention
 	Open Culture Foundation — Another brick in the firewall: China’s growing threat to local, regional, and global civil society
 	Bahrain Watch, Paradigm Initiative — Global perspectives on fighting social media censorship
 	Fundación Karisma — Quién Defiende Tus Datos: The latest on holding telecoms accountable with rating report throughout Latin America and Spain
 	Bahrain Watch — Freedoms constrained: How Western-made surveillance technology is used for rights abuses in the Middle East and North Africa
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About
Staff
Billie Goodman

Billie Goodman

Grants Program Manager

Billie manages the Access Now Grants program, which supports civil society organizations and activists working to advance digital rights and human rights and protect users at risk around the world. She comes to Access Now from American Jewish World Service, where she supported grassroots organizations working for justice, equality and accountability in Asia. Previously she has worked with Ashoka in Washington, DC and has lived and volunteered in Thailand and Palestine. She holds a MA in International Development Studies from George Washington University and a BA in Anthropology from Boston University. She credits her time spent in Palestine, Sri Lanka and Burma/Myanmar for inspiring her commitment to the security of human rights activists under threat and her belief in the power of grassroots social movements.

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Blog

Freedom of Expression

Community Voices: Don’t miss these Access Now grantees at RightsCon Toronto

With so many amazing sessions to choose from, we wanted to take a moment to recognize the contribution that Access Now grantees are making to the program and to the RightsCon community.…

10 May 2018

Blog

Freedom of Expression

How we spent $1 million for digital rights in 2017: empowering the grassroots across the globe

Here’s how the Access Now Grants program supported the grassroots in 2017.…

22 December 2017

Blog

Digital Security

When you give, we give to digital rights defenders

By making a contribution, you’ll provide much-needed resources to help ensure everyone — especially those most at risk — can freely and securely exercise their rights online. …

27 November 2017

Blog

Freedom of Expression

Access Now Grants welcomes Abir Ghattas to advisory board

We will rely on the expertise and contextual knowledge of Ghattas and her colleagues to determine how best to use our grant funds.…

24 May 2017

Blog

Freedom of Expression

What would you do with a million dollars for digital rights?

Access Now Grants is growing, and we want your advice on how best to empower the global digital rights community.…

15 March 2017