Alexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Centering the knowledges of marginalised communities from around the world. Re-imagining the internet to be for and from us all.

• women

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

Focuses on the topics of “digital transformation” and “innovation for democracy”

• Funders & donors

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

• Fight disinformation

A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.

• Slack

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Internet governance

Report by EngageMedia

• Digital rights

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives.

• Economic development

Corruption Watch is a Transparency International chapter working to fight corruption in South Africa

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

X-Road, the data exchange layer for information systems, is a technological and organizational environment enabling a secure Internet-based data exchange between information systems.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Predecessors

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve. Headquartered in Barcelona, the organisation’s stated mission is: "To be the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, promoting its values, objectives and interests, through cooperation between local governments, and within the wider international community."

New Cities is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to improving life in cities, and is focused on people, places and policies. We bring together a global network of public and private sector leaders and Urban Tech innovators to foster results-oriented collaboration. We also produce actionable research that can be implemented by decision-makers across sectors.

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. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression.✊

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate is a major international initiative to examine how countries can achieve economic growth while dealing with the risks posed by climate change. The Commission comprises former heads of government and finance ministers and leaders in the fields of economics and business.

J++ is an international team of data journalism specialists, with offices in Stockholm and Porto. The team integrates experts in research, data analysis, data-driven storytelling, newsroom programming and full-stack design.

• Media
• Data visualization
• Engagement journalism

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

Narrativa+Investigación+Datos

• Media
• Data science for social good
• Narrative tech

The Metagovernance Project is an interdisciplinary research collective. We build standards and infrastructure for digital self-governance. Our

• Decentralization

We are a community of integrity professionals—the people who build platforms to be better.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks

The Open Datat Institute's art programme

• Artistic interventions

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prevent those harms.

• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Platform for internal planning of engagement processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech

Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.

• Graveyard
• Mapping platforms

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• Arctic

• Partner networks

Tru is a social media publishing platform built to elevate truth. It offers a clean, curated feed, with no ads, noise or surveillance. It's in private beta.

• Internal communication and coordination

Reporters without Borders or Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) is an international organisation that protects freedom of the press worldwide by protecting the safety and security of journalists operating in threatening regimes.

• Media

Herdict is an online platform that crowdsources internet users’ reports of website inaccessibility and outages.

APC is an international network of civil society organisations founded in 1990 dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs). We work to build a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of ICTs to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies.

Argentine Chapter Of Transparency International. Poder Ciudadano is a non-partisan and non-profit foundation that was born in 1989 as an initiative of a group of citizens concerned about the defense of civic rights in our country. From its origins the founders took into account for their integration the criterion of gender equality, diversity in political-party inclinations and social classes. But they shared a base of common values, considering that in this plurality a civic thought could be built that would engage the participants beyond the vote, setting aside differences to strengthen the true value of democracy.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Since 1992, the European Journalism Centre has been building a sustainable, ethical and innovative future for journalism through grants, events, training and media development. It is an international non-profit, headquartered in The Netherlands, that connects journalists with new ideas, skills and people.

• Media
• Journalism

Outride.rs is a website delivering a range of international journalism.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Pro bono and volunteer

Our independent, non-profit organization provides policy advice and advocacy infused with lessons learned in the field and with insights developed through rigorous research. We share our knowledge and experience freely with policy-makers, accountability actors, and the global campaign for improved international norms. We are particularly well-placed to convene reform-oriented dialogue and to engage in constructive policy advocacy.

The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is the world’s largest international gathering of investigative reporters.

• Conferences
• Journalism

The Highway Africa Conference is a project of Rhodes University (Makhanda, South Africa). The 24-year old event is supported by a variety of partners including Government, corporate South Africa and development agencies. The key focus is the impact of digital technologies (internet and mobile) on journalism and the media and, by extension, society.

• Conferences
• Journalism

A campaign by the Internet Archive to encourage support of internet freedom by showing a potential dystopian near-future

• Civic fiction
• Open internet

Open Ownership (OO) believes that information on the true owners of companies is an essential part of a well-functioning economy and society.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Founded by billionaire Frank McCourt, Unfinished "works to strengthen our civic life in the digital age."

• Decentralization

"TechPresident was a nonpartisan political website founded by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry with the idea of tracking how the Internet is impacting U.S. political campaigns. It was launched on February 12, 2007 to monitor the United States presidential election of 2008." (Wikipedia)

• Graveyard
• News and blogs
• Predecessors

Action for Transparency (A4T) is a pioneering project that fights corruption and mismanagement of government funds by putting the power to change in the hands of citizens. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. If you don’t have a smartphone, you can find the same functionality on the website. Action for Transparency empowers citizens and government employees to act on corruption experienced in their everyday lives. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. By exposing which institutions and individuals are involved in corruption and providing the data to journalists and activist groups we hope we can make corruption less attractive.

Lifiled offers access to lighting, high-speed internet and educational content using a LED light bulb and Light Fidelity (Lifi) technology

• Emerging Tech report

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

The Community Prototype Fund supports the rapid development of innovative, viable and open Internet freedom technology prototypes that serve the immediate needs of the Internet freedom and human rights communities.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

KYR ARICA ensures public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements