OUR VISION
Convened by the GFMD and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), we are building a structured, scalable Alliance that:
- Reduces cloud computing costs for investigative and data newsrooms;
- Strengthens security, privacy, and digital resilience; and
- Supports innovation across investigative journalism and public-interest initiatives.
Over the next three years, we are developing the JCA into a bottom-up, community-driven, non-profit social enterprise. Acting as an intermediary between our members and trusted technology partners, we will secure preferential rates, shared infrastructure, and tailored services – and, in time, move towards a purpose-built cloud for civil society, and eventually community-owned cloud infrastructure.
A SMARTER, SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR JOURNALISM
Access to independent, high-quality investigative journalism has never been more important. Yet the tools required to do this work – cloud services, artificial intelligence tools, and big data infrastructure – are becoming more expensive, more complex, and harder to control.
The JCA is reshaping how technology works for journalism by:
- Using collective bargaining to lower costs.
- Pooling expertise to design fit-for-purpose architectures.
- Aligning with partners who share our values of openness, safety, and human rights.
- Exploring new revenue models that circulate value back into the community.
By uniting public-interest organisations under one coalition, we are building a co-operative, digital public good model for public-interest technology that is secure, cost-effective, and future-ready.
