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https://www.opentech.fund/labs/sua-lab/

Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

Adjacent Fields, Assistive and Accessible Tech, Build something, Cybersecurity, Digital security and privacy, The People, User research, User research groups

coaching, trainings

https://internews.org/the-internews-risk-and-response-fund/

The Internews Risk and Response Fund

The Risk and Response Fund is a $10 million pool of unrestricted resources that can be deployed with speed when a crisis strikes

California

2023

Funders & donors, Get funding, Journalism, Media

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-02-the-security-tab-is-now-security-quality/

Github Security and Quality

Section that runs security alerts and evaluates code quality on Github repos

Redmond, WA

2026

Cybersecurity, General purpose open source tools, Open source, Report cards and audits

https://www.factcheck.org/

Factcheck.org

A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

Washington, DC

2003

Factchecking, Fight disinformation, Watchdogging and transparency

https://codeforamerica.org/news/ai-studio-announcement/?utm_campaign=cfa-newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=310142466&utm_content=310142466&utm_source=hs_email

Code for America AI Studio

Workshop series to provide "a hands-on way for government to learn about the opportunities and considerations of leveraging AI and implementing these systems responsibly."

USA

2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Govtech

workshops