Come, say hi & ask us many questions in our Quarterly Member’s Call for 2024 on Thursday, 25th April 2024 at 5:30 PM IST.
Who are we?
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), is an impact-oriented and award-winning Indian digital rights advocacy organisation.
We seek to ensure that technology respects human rights. Born out of the SaveTheInternet movement, over the last seven years, IFF has worked to advance constitutional rights in a shared, collective vision for a free and open internet. We're committed to defending and expanding fundamental rights as India gets more digitally connected. As part of this mandate, we strategically engage with courts, regulators, and other legal institutions across India. We work across a wide range of issues with expertise in internet shutdowns, website blocking, data protection, surveillance reform and intermediary liability.
IFF’s primary objective has been to bring campaigners, policy experts, lawyers, technologists and artists together to build an open, safe and progressive digital ecosystem that respects human rights. IFF adopts a framework of civic literacy and engagement through online campaigning channelled towards institutional change. We regularly engage with courts, parliamentary bodies and government agencies over a broad range of digital rights issues. IFF strengthens its work with principles of collaboration and unleashing the power of being a community-centric organization. Through this structure, IFF has been able to successfully work on a range of digital rights issues through a variety of approaches.
Radical Transparency
As a tiny, donor-funded organisation which relies upon contributions from the people of India, your support and faith can only be maintained with greater transparency about our financial needs, fund inflows, and expenses. And we do this by
- Proactively publishing monthly financial disclosures, with income and expenditure figures. (here)
- Publishing tax reports, filings and documents related to board governance. (here)
- Hosting quarterly members’ and donors’ calls to touch base with our biggest cheerleaders, YOU GUYS! (here)
What goes on in these “Quarterly Members’ and Donors’ calls and why do we host them?
While a lot of you are familiar with IFF’s quarterly members’ and donors’ calls, we wanted to talk a moment to explain why we do these calls.
As a small donor-funded organisation, supported by Indian citizens like you, we strongly believe that your faith in our work can only be maintained with greater transparency.
What are you funding?
In our quarterly calls, we walk you, our community, through what your money and support are going towards, what we have been working on for the last quarter, issues we are closely following, critical developments shaping our digital rights landscape, and our responses to them.
The presentation part of the call is live-streamed through our social media channels, but as a member/donor, YOU get a chance to engage directly with the IFF staff and the community. Every quarter, all our supporters get to hop on the call and ask us questions, give their input/feedback, and hold us accountable!
2024, the election szn, and beyond.
Between April 19 and June 4, 2024, 96 crore Indian voters will elect the 18th Lok Sabha in the largest-ever election in the world. Concurrently, elections will also take place for the Legislative Assemblies in multiple states and by-elections for 35 seats in 16 states.
The stakes for our democracy are higher than ever and we’re keeping our eyes on the ways in which technology is shaping electoral processes and outcomes.
As the avenues of democratic civic spaces of resistance continue shrinking, we need to participate in democracy in deeper and more meaningful ways. Engaging with our community is critical for us to grow and stay transparent about our work and vision, not only in the digital rights scape but generally in our rights-centric advocacy efforts.
Your support is what makes our collective vision for a transparent, accountable and free internet possible. Following feedback from our community, we’ve also revamped our subscription tiers to make supporting our work even easier!
Join us!
We’re hosting our second Quarterly Member’s Call for 2024 on Thursday, 25th April 2024 at 5:30 PM IST. Members & Donors - check your inboxes for an invite!
Please mark your calendar and join us for this fun and insightful conversation with IFF staffers and meet the inaugural cohort of the Freedom Innovation Fellowship.
We will also live-stream the call on Twitter and YouTube if you’re not a member (become one?).