Projects - Adjacent Fields

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.

apps

Open Tech Fund's list of funders

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

OTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.

Humanitarian Knowledge Base

San Francisco

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

Intersection

10 Hudson Yards, 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA

Connecting brands and consumers

Gender and Technology Resources wiki

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”.

Gavel

Lagos

Gavel is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving the pace of justice delivery in Nigeria through digital technology and citizen engagement.

Darcy

Darcy will allow everyone to run their own federated social media instance – without having to worry about technology, moderation or legal compliance, because Darcy will take care of that for you – if you want!

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

LegalApp

Colombia

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

NYC Connectivity Challenge

New York City

De Blasio Administration Launches NYCx to Stimulate Economic Growth, Create Jobs and Solve Big Challenges Through New Technologies

Privacy International

62 Britton Street, London EC1M 5UY, UK

We’re here to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from the powerful institutions who breach public trust.

BuiltWorlds

Chicago, IL

BuiltWorlds is the premier research-driven network operating at the intersection of the built industry and technological innovation

housing

Speak Out Tech

Worcester, MA

What if Tech said

campaigns

Discotechs

Detroit, MI

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

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.

E-court

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

E-Court specialises in private and civil online dispute resolution. It aims to provide administrative justice at low costs.

Maryland Law HelpApp

Maryland

Maryland Law Help is a mobile application that connects Maryland citizens with legal information, tools and resources.

apps

Digital Attack Map

New York City

Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now

Sideways Dictionary

Washington, DC

it's like a dictionary, but using analogies instead of definitions.

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

Internet Geographies

Oxford, UK

This project maps and measures the geographies of information on the Internet.

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.

Blokable

Southeast Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA, USA

We partner with market rate and not for profit land developers and service providers to make housing happen. Building at lower cost, higher quality, and in less time, we create real estate equity.

Police Case

Sierra Leone

Police Case uses popular TV culture to educate the public about legal rights and the justice system.

Gravyty Go

Travel to the right donors, at the right time.

Internet Universality Indicators (ROAM-X)

UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris, France

A map of the Internet measuring its compliance with human Rights (R), evaluating its Openness (O) and Accessibility (A), and assessing the involvement of Multistakeholder actors (M) in its governance

human rights

Gravyty Guide

This weekly digest email helps you more efficiently manage your portfolio so you prioritize the right donors at the right time and raise more

Justice Connect

Australia

Justice Connect provides legal help to people and communites at risk of being of left behind by the law. This includesa guided diagnostic, intake and triage tool, several online self-help tools, and a facility that allows other organisationsto refer people to Justice Connect.

Youth in Front guide to student protests

This is an online course designed around promoting and discussing student-led voice in civic engagement.

youth

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.

ICRC Rules on Personal Data Protection

Avenue de la Paix 19, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland

The ICRC responds quickly and efficiently to help people affected by armed conflict. We also respond to disasters in conflict zones, because the effects of a disaster are compounded if a country is already at war.

In4Justice

Nigeria

In4Justice is an online dispute resolution service, and provides an alternate dispute resolution mechanism for small claim settlements.

Wakili Mkononi

Kenya

Wakili Mkononi helps individuals in need to find lawyers or law firms.

Project Lemon Aid

Nigeria

Project Lemon Aid matches people awaiting trial behind bars with pro bono lawyers who can represent their case.

Briar Project

Secure messaging, anywhere

apps

Wagbot

New Zealand

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

Open Legal Data

Berlin

Wir stellen Gesetzestexte und Urteile für alle kostenlos und maschinenlesbar zur Verfügung.

Campaign OS

The All-in-One Campaign Management Dashboard for Democrats and Progressives

partisan

Center for Humane Technology

The Center for Humane Technology is a world-class team of former tech insiders and CEOs who are advancing thoughtful solutions to change the culture, business incentives, design techniques, and organizational structures driving how technology hijacks our brains.

Guide to organizational security

The Engine Room, Albany Street, London, UK

We partnered with the Ford Foundation to look at how civil society can strengthen their digital security, what and who is out there to support them, and how they can develop better digital security practices.

research

Pokket

75 5th Street NW Atlanta, GA 30308

Pokket℠ connects justice agencies and human service providers with returning citizens to break the cycle.

recidivism

Safetag

SAFETAG adapts traditional penetration testing and risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to smaller non-profit organizations.

Icon

Austin, TX

3d printed homes

housing

Code for Australia ORBIT

Victoria, Australia

Helping staff and volunteers make accurate referrals across the legal assistance sector in Victoria.

Digital Defense Fund

United States of America (the)

We are Digital Defense Fund, and we do digital security for the abortion access movement.

InsideAirbnb

Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is being used in cities around the world.

Airbnb

Platform point cooperation 平台點合作

Hong Kong

This book lists a number of different cases and explains the prospects and development of future platform cooperation ahead of the 2018 Platform Cooperativism Alliance Conference.