Access Innovation Prize: 100.000 Dollar für Technologien zur Förderung von Menschenrechten

Die amerikanische NGO Accessnow.org sucht Ideen, wie Informationstechnologien Menschenrechte ermöglichen und fördern können. In fünf Kategorien werden je 20.000 Dollar Preisgeld an die besten Ideen vergeben. Die Bewerbungsfrist geht noch bis zum 15. August.

Alle wichtigen Informationen gibt’s auf accessnow.org/prize und hier das Bewerbungsformular. Gesucht werden Projekte in diesen Kategorien:

Blackout Resilience

US$20,000 will go to the best actionable idea to help build an open-sourced, blackout resilient technology for use by activists and human rights workers in conditions where there is a need for alternate communications infrastructure to the one put in place and/or controlled by the authorities. For example, where there has been a communication network shutdown.

Making Crypto Easy

US$20,000 will go to the best actionable idea to properly integrate encryption into an existing product/system, educate users as to how to use encryption and/or build a community who use encryption by default.

The Bounty

A US$20,000 bounty will be granted for the best patch for a disclosed or as yet undisclosed vulnerability in a program/platform or software used by human rights defenders and activists.

Golden Jellybean

This is an unthemed category. US$20,000 will go to the best actionable idea of how communication technologies can be used to promote and enable human rights. This could include a funding a researcher for $20,000; the development of a training guide for activists; a new censorship circumvention program; or an initiative to detect surveillance equipment on the network.

Access Facebook Award

US$20,000 will go to the best actionable idea of how to use the Facebook platform to deliver a human rights, human development or social good outcome. We’re looking for initiatives across the spectrum – from enhancing freedom of speech and expression to improving the economic well-being of a disadvantaged group.