Wau Holland Foundation

Preserving and furthering Wau Holland's unique ideas of free-thinking in the fields of freedom of communication and informational self-determination.

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Informational Self-Determination
As commercial 'social' network services like Facebook abuse user-contributed contents and personal information as an asset to gain financial profit, the Wau Holland Foundation funds projects like p≡p, GnuPG, SecuShare, Unhosted, GnuNET and Psyc that support the informational self-determination of the users in social networks.
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Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning is a former US Army intelligence analyst sentenced to 35 years in prison for providing the "Collateral Murder" video, the Afghan and Iraq war logs and classified US State Department diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, exposing war crimes, corruption and human rights abuses.
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Julian Assange
Julian Assange is the founder and long-time editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks and is persecuted by the American judiciary. He is threatened by extradition to the USA and a trial there because of his journalistic activities.
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Recent News

Moral Courage: Julian Assange

Announcement posted 14 April, 2019

With the arrest of Julian Assange on the basis of a request for extradition from the American judiciary, the Wau Holland Foundation is now collecting donations for his legal defence in the "Civil Courage" project in order to prevent his extradition to the USA. Read more

15 years ago: The WHS is founded

Announcement posted 1 December, 2018

The Wau Holland Foundation celebrates its 15th anniversary: On 19 December 2003, the Regierungspräsiduum Kassel signed the deed of foundation after the foundation business had... Read more

First version of Sequoia PGP released

Announcement posted 31 October, 2018

The first usable release of Sequoia - an OpenPGP library implemented in Rust - was presented by the developers in October 2018. Sequoia is implemented... Read more

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