Shared cloud for journalists and civil society
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Strategy, business modelling, and partner audits for cloud services and infrastructure built by and for journalists and human rights organisations.
Most newsrooms and civil society groups run on cloud infrastructure they don't control, hosted by companies whose business models conflict with their journalism and their mission. The Journalism Cloud Alliance, led by the Global Forum for Media Development and OCCRP, is an attempt to build a different stack: cloud infrastructure that's mission-aligned, governed by the people who depend on it, and engineered with human rights at the core.
We've been supporting the Alliance since 2024, with our partners at Abrimos. The work started with an audit across all JCA partners to understand what they actually need from shared infrastructure, where their existing setups are strong and where they are fragile, and where collective ownership would make a difference. From there we developed business models and rollout strategies for the infrastructure itself, and we've stayed on as ongoing strategic advisors as the Alliance moves from concept into implementation.