Web apps and solutions for Municipalities & Regions

• apps
• city

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

The Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network is a non-profit wireless community that aims to develop, use and promote a wireless broadband network in the wider Athens area.

• city

• Connectivity

A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Connectivity

This map displays where Internet services are available across the United States, as reported by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to the FCC. The map will be updated continuously to improve its accuracy through a combination of FCC verification efforts, new data from Internet providers, updates to the location data, and—importantly—information from the public.

• United States (federal government)

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Civic maps

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed Internet access by funding planning, infrastructure deployment and adoption programs.

• Govtech
• Connectivity

Alert people privately through a system that protect their privacy - without texts, emails or phone calls.

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Connectivity

Ranking Digital Rights's inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard reveals that telecom companies, despite being gatekeepers of the internet for most of the world, are less transparent overall and more susceptible to government demands than their Big Tech peers.

• reports

• Evaluate impact
• Digital rights
• Connectivity

The Myanmar Internet Project was established in 2022 by a collective of researchers, practitioners and advocates with years of experience tracking developments in the Myanmar digital space.

• Learn about civic tech
• Digital rights
• Connectivity

The Breakout Program is a $250,000 seed funding initiative launched by eQualitie to support innovations in digital communication that can withstand network shutdowns and censorship of global connectivity.

• free speech

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Connectivity

Broadband Labels (Internet de Banda Ancha Etiquetas - en español) are designed to provide clear, easy-to-understand, and accurate information about the cost and performance of high-speed internet services.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Connectivity
• Trustmarks

Space X's Starlink unit was granted permission by the US FCC to activate a satellite connectivity option for Americans in hurricane zones

• hurricanes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Connectivity
• Satellites

This map shows municipal networks across the United States.

• Civic maps
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Convening internet measurement groups with an established practice of working in the open to collaborate and converge on best practices, methodologies, and complementary approaches for the collecting of data around internet censorship.

• free speech

• Connectivity
• Circumvention tech
• Roundtables

The FRIDA Program site is the platform that collects the types of funds to which you can apply and the projects financed since 2004.

• Funders & donors
• Connectivity

Using Technology to Empower Rural and urban last mile communities across Nigeria

• workshops
• rural

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Connectivity
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

National Digital Inclusion Alliance advances digital equity by supporting community programs and equipping policymakers to act.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Created by NetFreedom Pioneers, the NKITI is designed to lower the entry barriers for technical individuals and organizations seeking to develop new information access solutions for the DPRK, and to serve as a launchpad for a new wave of technology-driven and DPRK-focused organizations.

• Connectivity
• Circumvention tech
• Incubators

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Connectivity
• Hardware

Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.

• Foundational layers
• Connectivity
• Open knowledge

Общество защиты интернета (ОЗИ) проводит мониторинг связности в Сети. Индекс связности обновляется ежедневно и чем он больше — тем лучше.

• Digital security and privacy
• Connectivity
• Circumvention tech

Monitor Macroscopic Internet Outages in Near Real-Time

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

Moja WiFi is a turnkey Solution for monetizing public WiFi networks

• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Red Hook WiFi, a project of Red Hook Initiative (RHI), is a community-led effort to close the digital divide.

• Connectivity
• Hardware
• Community wifi

We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society

• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Artistic interventions

The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado.

• state

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

2023 applications for digital equity grant opportunities from the City of Seattle are now open for organizations and community groups looking to help close the digital divide. This year, the City is offering $545,000 for qualifying projects with Technology Matching Fund (TMF) grants.

• city

• Get funding
• Connectivity

Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas:

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Connectivity

The Equitable Internet Initiative (EII) is a collaboration between the Detroit Community Technology Project and a network of community organizations including BLVD Harambee.

• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Open data from an investigation of disparate outcomes in internet deals across 38 major cities in the United States.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Connectivity

This study documents the rise of competitive broadband service in Boston; describes steadily increasing City efforts to close gaps in broadband affordability, devices, and skills; characterizes the remaining gaps in these areas as defined by stakeholders and available data; and makes near-term policy recommendations to address these gaps in light of current federal funding opportunities

• Digital literacy
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Blockchain-based connectivity network for decentralized wireless infrastructure

• Blockchain
• Connectivity

Community-owned internet infrastructure

• coop
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Connectivity
• Community-building resources
• Community wifi

by Pew Charitable Trusts

• state

• Connectivity

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Data science for social good
• Fellowships
• Connectivity

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

Internet access in major global subway networks

• city
• mass transit
• mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

a data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

The Internet Master Plan is a new vision for broadband infrastructure and service in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

2018 Book by Susan Crawford

• books

• Books
• Connectivity

San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.

• rural

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

We support the research, design, development, and deployment of technology-focused projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance, to enable global internet users to exercise their fundamental human rights online.

• free speech

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Access the internet simply and reliably where you are. BRCK is a rugged, self powered, cloud enabled wifi hotspot router with built in fail-overs.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Connectivity

We are a technology nonprofit developing innovative anti-censorship tools and sending life-changing information anywhere the Internet doesn’t reach.

• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Freedom of Information

Connecting coronavirus relief and aid orgs with support

• Nonprofit tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Internet insights for social good

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields