NewsDecember 20, 2025SplinterCon 2025, Paris: A RecapSurveillance and censorship technologies are evolving, but so are we.
ResearchSeptember 17, 2025Implementing Secure, Decentralized Storage to Protect Mobile MediaLearn about the research, development, and deployment processes we implemented with Hypha Co-Operative to co-create the first secure, decentralized mobile media storage backend.
NewsNovember 21, 2024How We Created the First Decentralized Storage Backend for Mobile MediaIn Spring 2024, OpenArchive joined forces with Hypha Worker Co-operative and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web to co-develop the first secure, usable Decentralized storage backend for mobile media. The following post dives into some of the more technical aspects of our project.
NewsNovember 14, 2024OpenArchive, Hypha, and FFDW Collaborate to Create the First DWeb Mobile Backend in SaveIn 2024, DWeb and archiving experts unite to forge a more secure, decentralized storage system for mobile media and beyond.
ResearchFebruary 13, 2024Mapping the Decentralized Storage EcosystemWhat 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.
ResearchDecember 11, 2023A Year in Review: Celebrating the impact of our Decentralized Archivist CommunitiesThis 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.
ResearchNovember 29, 2023Memo from Mexico City: Examining the needs of documenter communities working in MexicoMexican 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.
ResearchNovember 27, 2023Memo from Havana: Examining the needs of documenter communities working in CubaCuban 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.
ResearchOctober 20, 2023Preserving the Past, Protecting the Future: The Vital Role of Encryption in Media PreservationPrivacy-focused archivists rely on encryption to protect at-risk communities, safeguard sensitive media, maintain data integrity, control access, and facilitate secure storage and transfer.
ResearchAugust 22, 2023Memo from Quito: Understanding the Needs of Ecuador’s Documenter CommunitiesEcuadorian human rights defenders face increasing threats for their work combatting abuses by mining operations.
NewsJuly 31, 2023OTF & Trail of Bits' Independent Security Audit of SaveThrough support from the Open Tech Fund's (OTF) Red Team Lab, OpenArchive successfully completed a third-party security audit conducted by Trail of Bits.
ResearchMay 31, 2023Memo from Khartoum: Responding to Documenters’ Needs in Escalating ConflictIn 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.
ResearchMay 11, 2023Memo from Baghdad: Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Iraqi DocumentersIn 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.
ResearchJanuary 23, 2023Memo from Kharkiv: Mapping the realities of Ukrainian documenter communitiesAfter working with a partner organization in Ukraine for the past year, 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.
ResearchOctober 3, 2022Archiving Forward Part 2 - Mapping Our Decentralized EcosystemThis second part of our "Archiving Forward" series will talk about our decentralized ecosystem, and how community organizations, tech developers, and everyday users each play a critical role in preserving, amplifying, and securely routing significant records of important social events and privacy-sensitive information.
ResearchSeptember 8, 2022What you need to know about the United States' latest privacy billA federal privacy bill may give Americans more control over their data but does not go far enough and would weaken existing state protections.
NewsNovember 18, 2021FFDW and OpenArchive Collaborate to Deploy Decentralized Archive to Safeguard Important Community MediaOpenArchive receives Grant from FFDW to Help Secure, Share, and Store Important Community Media on the Decentralized Web
ResearchFebruary 16, 2021Archiving Forward - Demystifying the CloudOur "Archiving Forward" blog series will explore and explain how different actors, from individuals, to community organizations, to technology providers, each play critical roles in preserving, amplifying, and securely sending significant and impactful mobile media to their destinations.
ResearchMay 13, 2018Why OpenArchive?Despite the egalitarian accolades heaped upon early content platform startups, access to this new world of media has become unbalanced and asymmetrical. Before users learn the hard way that they cannot trust corporate platforms with valued and sensitive digital media, OpenArchive provides an alternative secure archiving solution at scale.
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