Projects - Digital rights

Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure for Identity Systems

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Enhancing the privacy and security of national digital identity systems

OpenGovLoc

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)

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.

Surveillance Watch

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

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ADISI - CAMEROUN

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)

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

Tecnoresistencias

Lima, Peru

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

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Hiperderecho

Lima, Peru

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

Digital Rights Community Global Gathering

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

Digital Rights In Asia-Pacific (DRAPAC)

Sursiendo

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

Climate action

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Catalyst Fund

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.

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Delete Nothing

Colombo, Sri Lanka

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.

Privacy Stack

Massachusetts

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.

Helpful Places

Toronto

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.

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Digital Rights Fund for West Asia and North Africa

Beirut

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

Cities and Digital Human 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.

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Demhack - хакатон в области цифровых прав

Russian Federation (the)

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.

7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement

Haifa

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.

Center for Democracy and Technology

Washington, DC

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

Defesa dos Direitos Digitais (D3)

Portugal

Pela defesa dos direitos digitais em Portugal

JAAKLAC iniciativa podcast

Finland (Suomi)

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.

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Digital Rights Nepal

Nepal

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

Freedom Online Coalition

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

Africa Digital Rights Hub

Accra

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

Panoptykon Foundation

Warsaw, Poland

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.

Azerbaijan Internet Watch

Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan)

All about information controls in Azerbaijan

Horizontal

Washington, DC

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.

Metamorphosis Foundation

Skopje, North Macedonia

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.

EngageMedia Digital Rights program

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

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

EngageMedia

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

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.

Human Rights Watch

Defending Human Rights Worldwide

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RosKomSvoboda

Russian Federation (the)

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

Digital Rights Job Board

London

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

Team CommUNITY

London

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

Worker Info Exchange

London

Data Rights for Digital Workers

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SMEX Fellowship on Technology and Human Rights

Beirut

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.

Center for Digital Democracy

Washington, DC

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.

Internet Freedom Foundation

New Delhi

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

Article 19

London

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

Decolonising Digital Rights

Amsterdam

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.

Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)

Amsterdam

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

Coalizão Direitos na Rede

Brazil (Brasil)

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.

Annir Initiative

Libya (Libiyah)

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

Electronic Frontier Alliance

San Francisco

The Electronic Frontier Alliance is a grassroots network of community and campus organizations across the United States working to educate our neighbors about the importance of digital rights. Organized by EFF.

The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)

New York University, New York, NY, USA

S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.

Access Now

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.