; or (2) continue to carry out such program in accordance with subsection (c). (e) Consolidation of Open Technology Fund Program Beginning on October 1, 2028, the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Technology Fund may— (1) consolidate the Program with the mainland China initiatives in the Open Technology Fund; or (2) continue to carry out the Program in accordance with subsection (c). 6. Support for information programs (a) Grants authorized (1) In general The Secretary of State, working through the Open Technology Fund and the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, is authorized to award grants to private organizations to support and develop programs in Hong Kong that promote or expand— (A) online information access; (B) freedom of the press; (C) disruptive technologies that bypass internet blocking, filtering, and other censorship techniques; (D) virtual private networks; (E) firewall circumvention tools; (F) distributed denial of service mitigation techniques; (G) digital security capacity building for internet users; or (H) digital resiliency for international organizations, pro-democracy activists, and other civil society actors in Hong Kong, including emergency support. (2) Goals The programs receiving grants pursuant to paragraph (1) should strive— (A) to make the technologies described in paragraph (1) available in Hong Kong; (B) to increase the number of the tools in the circumvention technology portfolio; (C) to promote the availability of such technologies and tools in Hong Kong; (D) to encourage the adoption of such technologies and tools by the people of Hong Kong; (E) to scale up the distribution of such technologies and tools throughout Hong Kong; (F) to prioritize the development of tools, components, code, and technologies that are fully open-source, to the extent practicable; (G) to conduct research on repressive tactics that undermine internet freedom in Hong Kong