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Overview
The Open Internet Initiative is a community driven effort to ensure the web remains open, interoperable, and freely accessible for all users and developers. This donation page supports ongoing work to sustain open standards, protect digital rights, and empower creators who rely on a stable, permissionless network. Contributions help us fund infrastructure, research, and outreach that uplift diverse voices in the ecosystem. In this project, we strive for clarity, reliability, and long term viability, so the web stays a shared resource for everyone.
The Open Internet Initiative relies on a broad base of supporters. By contributing, you’re strengthening a collaborative platform where information flows without gatekeepers and where independent projects can experiment, publish, and collaborate across borders.
Why Your Support Matters
Our aim is to keep the web open and fair for everyone, regardless of location or income. Your support fuels the core activities that keep this mission visible and effective. We work across communities, developers, researchers, and educators to protect open access and encourage responsible innovation. This project, grounded in transparency and shared purpose, benefits from steady, sustainable funding.
As part of the Open Internet Initiative, we focus on three pillars: sustaining open hosting for essential services, funding research into privacy respecting technologies, and enabling multilingual and accessible interfaces so more people can participate. These efforts are tangible and ongoing, not theoretical.
- Long term hosting and bandwidth for open source services
- Independent research on censorship resistant protocols and privacy
- Community education, translation, and outreach across regions
- Open governance practices inviting broad community input
How Donations Are Used
Funds are allocated transparently to support development, hosting, and community outreach. The Open Internet Initiative tracks expenditure and impact in open summaries to maintain accountability and trust. We allocate resources to ensure accessibility, multilingual support, and ongoing security reviews. This approach helps us maintain a calm, steady pace of progress that benefits diverse users and contributors alike.
Specific uses include system enhancements, performance improvements, accessibility upgrades, and audits of critical services. We also reserve resources for governance activities, documentation, and open data releases so supporters can review how funds are used and what is being accomplished.
Updates
- Milestone reached with a refreshed accessibility audit and a non technical public summary.
- Community workshop series expanded to three new languages with volunteer translators.
Community Voices
“A reliable open web is essential for education and collaboration across borders. Contributing helps keep that door open for students and creators.”
“I’ve seen how transparent funding improves trust. This project stays accountable and inclusive, which matters deeply to our community.”
Transparency And Trust
We publish funding reports, milestones, and governance notes in open formats so supporters can review progress at any time. The Open Internet Initiative invites feedback and constructive discussion to maintain a clear path forward. Public logs, meeting notes, and annual summaries are accessible to all, supporting a culture of accountability and shared responsibility.
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