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OpenArchive
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https://www.open-archive.org/

Protecting our histories.

We are a nonprofit initiative that co-creates tools and resources to easily safeguard media.

Securely archive, verify, and encrypt your mobile media with our mobile app Save.
✨ OpenArchive co-creates holistic, intuitive & privacy-first archiving tools + resources to preserve our histories.

With secure, responsive mobile preservation, we help communities protect their media & stories — safely, easily, and for the long term.
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🎃 This #Halloween, don’t let your memories become a ghost story. 👻

Archive them securely with our Save app with encryption stronger than any spell. 🔒✨ No tricks, just treats — safely preserved and verifiable data!

🔗 linktr.ee/openarchive
October 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
✨ Save is an easy-to-use mobile app designed to help you securely verify, share, and archive your mobile media.

It's free, open-source, and available for iOS and Android.

Download the app, read our How to Use Save Guide, and watch our video tutorials → www.open-archive.org/save
October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
✨ OpenArchive builds reliable, open-source & decentralized archives to protect history and the people documenting it.

🩵 Join us in safeguarding stories from the margins: explore, share & support our work at www.open-archive.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🌍 In a world where media can vanish overnight, OpenArchive helps you keep it safe.

Our privacy-first, decentralized tools help people preserve and share their stories — creating many copies so history endures.

✨ Help us protect our stories & histories for the long term: www.open-archive.org/donate
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Our new secure decentralized p2p storage offers new ways to preserve and verify mobile media.

✨ The first of its kind ✨

✊🏼💾 Learn how to reclaim control of your archives in our new white paper www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

In partnership with @hypha.coop, with support from @ffdweb.org 🩵
October 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
✨ We refreshed our secure archiving app Save—now safer, smoother & more powerful

Updates:
➡️ Securely archive photos & videos straight from your phone
➡️ Use passcode lock, screen blur & stronger verification
➡️ Coming soon: censorship-resistant DWeb backend. DM to beta test!
www.open-archive.org/save
October 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
✨Together with Hypha Worker Co-operative (@hypha.coop), we built the first secure, p2p decentralized storage backend for our Save app.

🌍 Privacy-first archiving means safer, resilient storage for at-risk media.

Read the white paper + join beta testing: www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph... 🙏
September 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🌈 Thank you, #GlobalGathering2025! We’re inspired after 3 days with leaders, journalists, technologists & funders—learning together, helping set up the Save app & sharing our new #DWeb research on preserving at-risk media. Events like this show why secure, ethical & accessible tools are essential 💜
September 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
OpenArchive is heading to #RightsCon2025, 24-27 February 2025 🧑‍💻🔐

+ Dialogue session: Working with Mobile Media Archiving Tools
+ Weds 26 Feb, 9-10am
+ Room 102, Taipei International Convention Center
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr25mhb8

+ Say hello at our booth!
+ Thurs, 27 Feb, 9am-1pm, location TBD
February 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We created our Citizen Journalist Survival Guide with and for eyewitnesses, citizen reporters, and legal observers. In it, we share best practices and harm reduction tactics to protect at-risk groups from danger and retraumatization while documenting
January 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We interrupt your regularly scheduled scrolling to remind you that you can support @open_archive’s mission to safeguard our shared histories by making a direct donation✨

Whether it's $10, $100, or $1000, every amount counts! #GivingTuesday2024

Visit: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=...

#GivingTuesday
December 3, 2024 at 6:32 PM
🌈We’re thrilled to join the #GlobalGathering this year! ✨
👋 Let’s catch up!
🌊 Venue: FIARTIL - Feira de Artesanato do Estoril, Av. Amaral
📅 Date: 28 September 2024
⏱️ Time: 15:30-17:30 CEST
🗃️ Booth: no. 11
September 23, 2024 at 3:08 PM
📖Learn how decentralized storage can benefit history’s first responders by offering more robust ways to verify ✅and preserve 💾mobile media.

Check it out ➡️ open-archive.org/news/harm-re...
April 25, 2024 at 4:04 PM
We discuss insights from co-research with the DACs & how collaborative #HarmReduction tactics & secure archival tools can help keep them safe 🛡️. 

📜We also share guides by @eff.org, WITNESS, & Berkeley Copwatch, all who are working to safeguard individuals & their evidence.
April 25, 2024 at 3:59 PM
🚨New blog alert! In it, we

🗺️map the challenges brave #HumanRights defenders face when capturing evidence,

🕵️demystify #ThreatModeling, share a real-world threat model, and offer mitigation tactics,

🔎explore the potential benefits of the #DWeb.
open-archive.org/news/harm-re...
April 25, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Job alert!🚨 Join us to lead our operational & fundraising success! 

🚀 We're hiring a Development & Operations Director to guide our team’s operations, administrative, project management, & fundraising efforts.

Interested? Check out the job description & apply now! 👇
open-archive.org/jobs/dod
April 16, 2024 at 2:30 PM
🔍Check out our recently published research on the #DecentralizedWeb

📚Our first blog, part of a trilogy, explores the #dweb’s potential to evolve digital archiving practices. Stay tuned for the next installment on #HarmReduction in media archiving

open-archive.org/news/mapping...
April 2, 2024 at 8:48 PM
🌍 On this #IWD2024, we celebrate the groundbreaking feminist work of three Decentralized Archivist Communities we partner with. 

✊ As a women-founded & led nonprofit, we’re committed to amplifying their revolutionary contributions to documenting & fighting gender-based violence. 

⬇️🧵
March 8, 2024 at 2:26 PM
On this last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, let's reflect on activism & documentation's profound impact on our historical narrative.

🗣️ Black archivists have tirelessly preserved crucial stories.

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼 We must engage, amplify, & advocate for equality.
February 29, 2024 at 2:12 PM
We are joining @brewster.kahle.org, @archive.org, @nathan.freitas.net, and Nikhil Raghuveera on the panel “Building Trust: Integrating Integrity into the Tech Stack” at the Social Impact Summit 🌐💾hosted by #BL4SG, and @ffdw.bsky.social on Feb 27. 

✨Can’t wait to see you there! t.ly/553dE
February 26, 2024 at 2:10 PM
In it, we highlight these ✨important and innovative decentralized projects✨examining 🧐and shaping the #NextWeb

#EternityService, #Publius, #FreeHavenProject, #Tangler, #Freenet, #Tribler, #XVine, #FreenetWebofTrust, #torproject, @ipfs.tech, #Hypercore, #OCapN, @ceramicnetwork.bsky.social
February 15, 2024 at 12:13 PM
We are building on the good work of the @archive.org, @brewster.kahle.org, @ffdw.bsky.social, #TheAlexArchive, and @ipfs.tech, who came before to use these technologies to benefit civil society at large.
February 15, 2024 at 11:59 AM
 📢 Attention! Excited to share our new research on the #DecentralizedWeb

🔎 We delved deep to explore the promises & challenges of how distributed storage systems and blockchain technologies could evolve our digital archiving practices: open-archive.org/news/mapping...

🧵
February 15, 2024 at 11:55 AM
🔒 Stealth mode engaged on #DataPrivacyDay! Securely upload your mobile media and keep your digital content private with our 📲“Save” app. Check out how #OpenArchive ensures your media is safe, secure, and private:

open-archive.org/news/save-se... 

#DataPrivacyDay #HumanRights #DigitalRights
January 29, 2024 at 4:48 PM