The report serves as an entry point to this ‘forecasting’ stream of work that organizations working in the digital rights ecosystem often overlook, especially when resources are scarce, and they are focused on current challenges and ongoing projects.

• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

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
• Report cards and audits
• Connectivity

Our mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People of Color, in addition to other marginalized groups traditionally identified as the end-users and consumers of innovation and design, and transforming them into the innovators, purveyors, and beneficiaries.

• Quality education
• surveillance
• CTFG partners

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations
• Digital rights

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
• Connectivity
• Digital rights

Defendemos derechos fundamentales en el entorno digital

• Digital rights

With a focus on migration, technology, and human rights, we actively interrogate tech experiments on people crossing borders.

• surveillance
• immigration

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy
• Archives

Enhancing the privacy and security of national digital identity systems

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Identity

OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Freedom of Information

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry.

• surveillance

• Data visualization
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

ADISI-Cameroun est une organisation de la société civile qui a pour cœur de métier l’information et la gouvernance de celle-ci.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Freedom of Information

Un espacio para mujeres, disidencias, diversidades, y activistas que resisten ante la violencia de género en internet.

• anti-harassment
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Digital rights

Somos una asociación civil peruana sin fines de lucro dedicada a investigar, facilitar el entendimiento público y promover el respeto de los derechos y libertades en entornos digitales.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Freedom of Information
• Digital rights
• Open civic data

Want to join the global digital rights and internet freedom community? We providing events, services, job board, community spaces, and more!

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The Catalyst Fund was launched in October 2023 to support the burgeoning ecosystem of actors working on the intersection of digital rights and climate justice to build cross-territorial strategies and weave thematic threads across movements.

• Climate action

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

Trabajamos en la defensa de los derechos digitales colectivos para lograr un entorno más abierto y colaborativo

• Climate action

• Digital rights

Delete Nothing aims to document technology-related gender-based violence in Sri Lanka, particularly but not limited to the experiences of girls, women, and queer and trans people in Sri Lanka.

• anti-harassment
• anti-trafficking
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Digital security and privacy
• Tech for public challenges
• Digital rights

An open source starter app that comes with user accounts that include: data access, do not sell, data deletion, undo sign up, and other features.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Helpful Places is a mission-driven company that helps organizations, and the communities they serve, harness the power of technology in ways that are transparent, inclusive, participatory, and in alignment with the community's goals.

• Digital rights

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

digitalhelpdeskforcities.org is a platform for public officials, specialists, collaborators, and organisations globally who want to promote an inclusive and democratic development of new technologies in their cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Digital rights
• Data governance

Онлайн-хакатон для специалистов в области IT, анализа данных, кибербезопасности, дизайнеров, цифровых художников, исследователей, интернет-активистов и журналистов. Главные темы хакатона - приватность и свобода интернета. Хакатон проходит два раза в год.

• Build something
• Digital rights
• Civic hackathons

The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media is a non-profit organization that advocates for Palestinian digital rights. 7amleh’s mission is to create a safe, fair and free digital space for Palestinians.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization fighting to advance civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights
• Predecessors

Pela defesa dos direitos digitais em Portugal

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

JAAKLAC iniciativa promueve la educación digital crítica para desarrollar el conocimiento sobre cómo las tecnologías digitales afectan a sociedades, al medioambiente y para ampliar la partcipación colectiva hacia futuros más justos.

• podcasts

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy
• Podcasts

Digital Rights Nepal is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to the protection and promotion of digital rights in Nepal

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

The Freedom Online Coalition is a partnership of 38 governments, working to advance Internet freedom.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Cybersecurity

The Panoptykon Foundation arose from the belief that negative social phenomenon should not be ignored, along with the belief that – thanks to knowledge, commitment, and determination – we can change the world around us and make sure that surveillance is curtailed.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

All about information controls in Azerbaijan

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Horizontal works with human rights defenders and frontline activists in highly repressive environments–in places where dissent is a crime, where basic freedoms are routinely trampled on. But developing technology that is genuinely empowering is about more than tech, it's about who develops and how.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Civic apps outfits

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation
• Government transparency

EngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology, and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet, and open technologies to create social and environmental change.

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

Defending Human Rights Worldwide

• Digital rights

RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights

• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others
• Digital security and privacy

The Digital Rights Job Board features diverse opportunities from organizations, grassroots networks, companies and other types of entities from 130+ countries working at the intersection of technology, human rights, and social justice

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards
• Digital rights

Data Rights for Digital Workers

• labor

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Peer networks

SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.

• Fellowships
• Digital rights

IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Campaign organizations

The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness, and community.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging

ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.

• human rights
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Freedom of Information
• Digital rights

The Digital Freedom Fund supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Digital rights

The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Diversity & Inclusion

The Rights in the Network Coalition is a network of entities that brings together more than 40 academic and civil society organizations in defense of digital rights, with the main themes of action: access, freedom of expression, protection of personal data and privacy on the Internet.

• Digital security and privacy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Digital rights

Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Providing solutions to respect and protect your Digital Rights

• Digital rights

Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of people and communities at risk. By combining direct technical support, strategic advocacy, grassroots grantmaking, and convenings such as RightsCon, we fight for human rights in the digital age.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Campaign organizations