Projects - Adjacent Fields

Secure Messaging? More Like A Secure Mess.

EFF Guide to Messaging

Laudelina

Brazil (Brasil)

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

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Law for Me

India

LawforMe attempts to make the law and legal processes accessible to all citizens by simplifying Indian laws throughthe use of design and technology.

Information Controls Fellowship

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Raoul Wallenberg Place Southwest, Washington, DC, USA

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.

Intra

New York, NY

Intra is an Android app that protects against DNS manipulation, making it easy to access blocked websites and apps and get safer access to the internet.

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Seeing AI

Redmond, WA

A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects

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Be My Eyes

Åbogade 15, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark

Bringing sight to blind and low-vision people

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NNIP Catalog of data trainings

The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC, USA

This catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.

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Enjambre

Mexico

We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.

Tor Project

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

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Legal Health Check-up

Halton Community Legal Services, Dorval Drive, Oakville, ON, Canada

Halton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.

Citizen Science (book)

Gower Street, London, UK

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

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Project Drawdown

San Francisco

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

Climate action

PakAirQuality

Pakistan

Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.

air quality

Pakistani Lawyer

Pakistan

Pakistani Lawyer is web-based platform that provides contact details of lawyers, as well as resources to educate students and non-lawyers about Pakistani law.

Social Media Exchange (SMEX)

Beirut

Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments

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Outline VPN offered in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

Tactical Tech

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

Tactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.

Surveillance Self-Defense

San Francisco

TIPS, TOOLS AND HOW-TOS FOR SAFER ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS

EveryAction

1445 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA

EveryAction offers a best-in-class Digital, Fundraising and Organizing SaaS products, with a unified customer relationship management (CRM) platform that is able to effectively serve large and small nonprofits, as well as campaigns through its NGP VAN brand.

Dear Landlord

Australia

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

Queensland Law Handbook

Queensland, Australia

Queensland Law Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible resource designed to help Queensland residents withtheir legal problems.

Legal Legends

South Africa

Legal Legends allows small businesses to purchase legal services at fixed prices on its platform.

Vframe

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

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Re-focus

Australia

Re-focus is a mobile application that provides legal information and welfare advice for women who are separated orare thinking of separating.

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LegalApp

Colombia

Digital tool that helps Colombian citizens know where, how and what to do regarding their everyday legal paperwork

Libre AI

Dublin, Ireland

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

Safecast

Law Padi

Nigeria

LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.

LawzGrid

India

LawzGrid allows individuals and businesses to seek legal information, find a lawyer and create online legaldocuments based on their requirements.

David E. Glover Center for Technology

Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond

Fundación Karisma

Transversal 22a #59-44, Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

Organización de la sociedad civil que trabaja en la promoción de los derechos humanos en el mundo digital

Famalia

Kenya

Famalia is an SMS-based tool that seeks to inform people about succession law.

Internet Geographies

Oxford, UK

MobLab Dispatch

The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.

Open Hub

78 Susan Drive, Newburgh, NY, USA

Tech Community Incubator in Hudson Valley

IP Observatory

Monash University, Wellington Rd, Clayton VIC, Australia

Internet insights for social good

Digital Undivided

50 Hurt Plaza Southeast, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

BLACK AND LATINX WOMEN FOUNDERS + THEIR BIG IDEAS AND HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES + OUR TRAINING, NETWORK, AND ACCESS TO FUNDING = SOMETHING THE STARTUP WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE

Calyx Institute

Brooklyn, NY

Our mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. By embracing "privacy by design," we help make digital security and privacy more accessible to everyone.

Wayfindr with TfL

52-58 Arcola Street, London E8 2DJ, UK

We have developed the world's first internationally-approved standard for accessible audio navigation.

Lexcare

India

Lexcare is an online forum where people can post legal questions and recieve advice. Users can also find lawyers andconsult them for a fee.

Consumer Reports

Yonkers, NY, USA

Smarter choices for a better world

SecureDrop

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.

PLP 2.0

Brazil (Brasil)

The PLP 2.0 mobile application allows victims of domestic violence to report violence. Users feeling threatened bya former or current partner can use the app to report the issue to the police. The app allows a user to contact thepolice by using the phone’s power button. The police receives an alert as well as the GPS location of the user at risk offacing abuse.