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Ceno is building a borderless internet

Our motto is ‘Share the Web!’
because that is what our users do.

There are many tools available to people who face internet restrictions, but these tools often don’t help people in the midst of internet shutdowns, blockages, VPN breaks and other disruptions.
Ceno is different. People using Ceno Browser are able to access a library of saved internet content that continues to be available during service interruptions.

That’s where sharing the web comes in: users with access to content or a stable network help to collect and share content with those who don’t. This means, for example, that a Ceno user in Azerbaijan can read a blocked article if another Ceno user in Italy has pulled up the same one.
This is made possible by people running Ceno from countries with more reliable and open access to the internet – we call these users “Bridges“. Bridges can share content with people using Ceno in heavily restricted networks.

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The team behind Ceno

Ceno is created and maintained by the Canadian not-for-profit organization eQualitie in support of Articles 18, 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We have over ten years of experience creating and advancing tools to protect freedom of speech, facilitate information exchange, and promote self-expression on the internet.

Ceno — and all accompanying components of the tool that together create a decentralized network of peers and nodes — is free and open source software. You can inspect our code or re-create the entire network yourself!

The team behind Ceno

Ceno is for everyone. It can replace your existing mobile browser as it shares many of the same functions and features.

If you’re running Ceno from a region with open access to the internet, you’ll access content the same way you would on a mainstream browser. The benefit is that you can choose to help other Ceno users while you browse by becoming a Bridge.

Ceno is especially useful for people facing internet censorship or connectivity issues.

Citizen

Student

Human rights defender

Human rights defender

The Technologist works in IT as a system admin and network administrator. He is concerned about the ongoing reform of the Russian internet and is threatened by the increasing  sovereignization of the RuNet. He has advanced knowledge of how the internet works, and likes to try different privacy enhancing tools, and is especially interested in open source and free software. He’s a fan of “old school” technologies such as Jabber or IRC, and is interested in mesh networking and decentralized/distributed networks (in principle, as architectural solutions, but also for privacy and reliability reasons). He’s looking for a new distributed circumvention solution that can become an alternative to VPNs and Tor. It’s challenging to gain his trust; he needs to have a look at the code or to read someone’s detailed review/audit before actually trusting a tool. He uses Linux and Android, and appreciates when apps are available on F-Droid or APKs are available directly. Appreciates even more when builds are available for Linux. He’s ready to participate in a project if he likes it (either as a « seeder » or a node in the system to help distribute content, or as a bug reporter).

Journalist

Technologist

Diaspora user