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People will not (and should not) use tech that's untrustworthy. Too many tech projects, including civic tech projects, have abused user privacy and/or failed users in providing a secure user experience. Anyone advocating for increasing digitization of government, social benefits, or public conversation should invest in strong digital security and privacy-respecting approach from the onset and on an ongoing basis, as this area evolves rapidly.

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Filterwatch

Filterwatch

Brooklyn, NY

Filterwatch aims to provide the information and tools to enable journalists, human rights advocates, and campaigners to hold Iranian policy-makers to account, and to advocate for a free and open internet in Iran, for the benefit of all Iranians.

Identifying Potential Data Risks and Harms

We set ourselves a task to create a short, simple, and practical resource to help teams who are designing projects to identify potential risks and harms.

Bits of Freedom

Bits of Freedom

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Bits of Freedom was founded in 1999. We influence policies and legislation to support an open and fair information society.

Smart cities and data protection: possible routes

InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.

JusticeAI

JusticeAI

Palo Alto

JusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.

SocialTIC

SocialTIC

South America

SocialTIC es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la investigación, formación, acompañamiento y promoción de la tecnología digital e información para fines sociales.Conoce nuestros proyectos, reflexiones y recomendaciones sobre infoactivismo, datos abiertos y seguridad digital

Quiero Mis Datos

Quiero Mis Datos

Buenos Aires

Una herramienta para conocer qué saben las empresas sobre vos

The Empower Rangers

The Empower Rangers

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The Empower Rangers es una creación animada pensada y ejecutada por RedesAyuda y el primero, de un grupo de ellos, es el Empower Ranger Azul.

Cyber Collective

We empower people to think critically about their relationship with technology and inspire a more socially responsible future.

MetaCert

MetaCert tells you which links are safe and which websites you can trust.

What the Future Wants

What the Future Wants

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

Coalizão Direitos na Rede

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.

Al Sur

Al Sur

South America

"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the region.

The Influence Industry Project

The Influence Industry Project

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.

NYU Tandon Cybersecurity for Democracy

NYU Tandon Cybersecurity for Democracy

New York University, New York, NY, USA

Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.

Haven

Protect personal spaces and possessions without compromising privacy

Defending Digital Campaigns

Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and attacks.

Tor Browser for Android

Tor Browser for Android Experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship.

Deflect

Deflect

Canada

DDoS protection for civil society groups

Digital Freedom Fund Grants

Digital Freedom Fund Grants

Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 104-108 1012 SG Amsterdam The Netherlands

The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context.

AWO

AWO

Europe

We’re a new agency working across the world to shape, apply and enforce data rights. We have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working out of offices in London, Brussels and Paris.

Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA)

La coalición Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA) se crea para desafiar la falta de control democrático, transparencia y rendición de cuentas en el uso y adquisición de sistemas de toma de decisiones automatizadas e inteligencia artificial en España.

Círculo

Keep yourself and your community safe with Círculo, an app easy to use that allows you to send check-ins and urgent alerts in a fast and private way.

Fight for the Future

We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible

JAAKLAC initiative

JAAKLAC initiative

Finland (Suomi)

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

Internet Freedom Festival

Internet Freedom Festival

Las Naves, Carrer de Joan Verdeguer, València, Spain

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

Mission Billion Challenge

to surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.

Gender and Technology Institutes

Gender and Technology Institutes

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

Open Internet for Democracy

Open Internet for Democracy

455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

Open Tech Fund's list of funders

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.

Calyx Institute

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.

Facebook Tracking Exposed

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

Future of Privacy Forum on Smart Cities

Connected technologies and always-on data flows are helping make today’s cities and communities more livable, productive, and sustainable. At the same time, these technologies raise concerns about individual privacy, freedom of choice, and institutional discrimination.

Project Galileo

Project Galileo

101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107

If you are an organization working in the arts, human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy, you can apply for Project Galileo to get Cloudflare’s cybersecurity protection

Cloudflare for Campaigns

Cloudflare for Campaigns

101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107

It is designed to make it easier for all political campaigns and parties, especially those with small teams and limited resources, to get access to cybersecurity services.

Civic Data Privacy Leaders Network

Civic Data Privacy Leaders Network

MetroLab Network, 777 6th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001, USA

A collaborative that will provide an active, authoritative resource for municipal leaders to navigate emerging privacy issues, share practical guidance, and promote fair and transparent data practices

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