About us

Digital Empowerment Beyond Barriers

NetFreedom Pioneers (NFP) is a technology nonprofit developing innovative anti-censorship tools and sending life-changing information anywhere the Internet doesn’t reach. We harness digital technologies to promote education, learning, and empowerment – the building blocks to lasting change.

Our Mission

Information is powerful. It gives individuals the tools to forge a better life, and communities the power to sculpt their collective future. Pushing beyond frontiers both figurative and physical, NetFreedom Pioneers creates the products, systems, and partnerships that bring valuable and life-changing information to those most in-need.

Our Vision

NFP envisions a fully connected world with unhindered access to empowering digital resources, including online social communities, educational resources, supportive advocacy content, news and current events, and other media.

In our vision of this world even the smallest of minorities, the most disenfranchised, and the heavily censored have the same digital access to resources and information as the tech-savvy and well-connected. The Syrian refugee in Jordan, the remote islander in Polynesia, the lone transgender villager in Iran, the Latin American Guarani grandmother, the displaced Roma in Europe, the homeless veteran in the United States, the Dalit in India, and the Sikh worshipper in Pakistan will all have equal access to information, and thus all of us will have equal access to each other.

To realize this vision and dream, NFP develops and employs innovative satellite, internet, and mobile technologies that can overcome the largest digital barriers to empowering and educating people around the globe.

Our Priciples

NetFreedom Pioneers puts the Digital Principles into practice through its policies, processes and activities.

Design With the User

User-centered design starts with getting to know the people you are designing for through conversation, observation and co-creation.

Design for Scale

Achieving scale requires adoption beyond an initiatives pilot population and often necessitates securing funding or partners that take the initiative to new communities or regions.

Understand the Existing Ecosystem

Well-designed initiatives and digital tools consider the particular structures and needs that exist in each country, region and community.

Address Privacy & Security

Addressing privacy and security in digital development involves careful consideration of which data are collected and how data are acquired, used, stored and shared.

Be Collaborative

Achieving scale requires adoption beyond an initiatives pilot population and often necessitates securing funding or partners that take the initiative to new communities or regions.

Build for Sustainability

When an initiative is data driven, quality information is available to the right people when they need it, and they are using those data to take action.

Use Open Standards, Open Data, Open Source, and Open Innovation

An open approach to digital development can help to increase collaboration in the digital development community and avoid duplicating work that has already been done.