Registration now open for the 2017 Internet Freedom Festival

Hosted by IREX and the Open Technology Fund, the Internet Freedom Festival brings together diverse members of the online community, including journalists, activists, and information security professionals, to fight censorship and surveillance on the internet. Through multidisciplinary collaboration, the Internet Freedom Festival creates a space where these community members can come together to teach, plan, and act.

The festival will take place March 6-10, 2017in Valencia, Spain. Attendance is free, but space is limited. Fellowships are also available.

The Internet Freedom Festival (IFF) is one of the largest, most diverse, and most inclusive unconferences in the internet freedom community.

The IFF focuses on antisurveillance and anticensorship initiatives, creating a positive and inclusive space for hands-on, multidisciplinary collaboration between journalists, media organizations, on-the-ground activists, software developers, information security professionals, digital security trainers, designers, and many other internet freedom professionals.

  • In 2016, the IFF had over 700 attendees coming from 74 countries, and hosted over 200 sessions. More than 40% of the attendees where women.
  • To tackle the issues that make participation in the internet freedom community difficult for underrepresented groups, the Internet Freedom Festival created the IFF Diversity & Inclusion Fund. The fund allows these groups to not only take part in important conversations at the IFF, but also design programs and agendas o collectively address inequality and regional issues.

For more information, visit the Internet Freedom Festival web page