GNI helps companies respect freedom of expression and privacy rights when faced with government pressure to hand over user data, remove content, or restrict communications.

• free speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Trade groups

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

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.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Digital rights

A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

Providing solutions to respect and protect your Digital Rights The IO Foundation is a non-profit organization born from a fundamental concern on the state of Digital Rights in the world. We aim to raise awareness on the importance of Digital Rights and seek to help in promoting the creation of a Universal Declaration of Digital Rights (UDDR) with the collaboration of other organizations, both from civil society and bodies of governance. To this end, we implement specific programs that help users to protect their data and metadata in their digital interactions. We also organize activities to inform people and provide them with tools to effectively protect their rights.

• Digital rights

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

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital security and privacy

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

• human rights

• Funders & donors
• Digital security and privacy

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.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy: freedom of expression; net neutrality; digital privacy; the free circulation of culture, knowledge and information; mechanisms for transparency, participation and citizen control of power and institutions; the defence of citizen journalism for the right to know, inform and be informed; the technical, communications and legal fight against corruption; and the technopolitics understood as the practice of networking and taking action for citizen empowerment, justice and social transformation.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging

Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• human rights

• Digital rights

OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

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

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Open data publishing platforms
• Digital rights

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.

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Open Internet for Democracy Playbook serves as a companion piece to the Democratic Principles for an Open Internet, which is a framework for understanding what principles must be upheld in order for the internet to foster democracy.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos. Our mission is to promote the principles of a free culture and defend civil rights on the Internet, fostering spaces for interaction and exchange of knowledge and developing Web tools with open code and design, supported by an alternative and innovative communication and advocacy work.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies

The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018

• The People
• Digital rights
• Manifestos

Digital Woman Uganda is a Civic-tech and Digital Rights Advocacy organization – operating an ICT powered model to extend the literacy and skills of an eco-system economy that the world currently operates in to a woman/ girl child. Preparing the African woman/ girls to be able to be competitive and self-sustaining in the Digital World

The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.

• Emerging Tech Organizations
• Digital rights
• Predecessors

The event is a 5-day design sprint where multidisciplinary teams consisting of the best local, regional and international talent in data, design, journalism and technology are teamed up with NGOs that collect data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

The stories turn up daily: Social media is being used to undermine democracy. Someone has run off with millions of Social Security numbers stored by a major financial institution. Internet service…

• The People
• Digital rights
• Manifestos

an experimental project to enable practical alternatives to how we manage our personal data and interact on the internet

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Decentralization

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The Democratic Principles for an Open Internet have been primarily designed for citizens and civil society organizations in fragile and emerging democracies, who are new to the digital rights space, are beginning to engage more regularly online, and who may be more likely to encounter deliberate internet disruptions as a result of government interference.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech