Foundational layers
#VisibileWikiWomen
Centering the knowledges of marginalised communities from around the world. Re-imagining the internet to be for and from us all.
7000 Languages
We create free language-learning software for Indigenous communities around the world.
745 Atlantic Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Accessibility Checker
A feature in Office 365 that works like Spell Check, but for accessibility.
Redmond, WA, USA
AccessMap
AccessMap is an AI-powered online travel planner built on top of OpenSidewalks, which logs the physical features of sidewalk infrastructure, to help people with disabilities plan and navigate any trip
Seattle, WA, USA
Aira
Aira connects people who are blind or low vision to a trained professional agent who is dedicated to further enhancing their everyday experience – completely hands-free assistance at the touch of a button.
Baobab.law
Baobab.law attempts to remove barriers to legal assistance by providing DIY legal solutions in the form of videotutorials. Videos are recorded with professional lawyers, and are available in multiple languages.
South Africa
Bite the Ballot
Bite The Ballot is an international social enterprise that specialises in civic and community engagement. Our charity has grown from an idea in a classroom to coordinating world-record breaking campaigns, changing laws and rebranding politics among young and socially-excluded communities.
United Kingdom
BRCK
Access the internet simply and reliably where you are. BRCK is a rugged, self powered, cloud enabled wifi hotspot router with built in fail-overs.
Burocratas YouTube channel
Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.
Bogota, Colombia
Center for Civic Education
The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries.
Centro de Relevo
Inclusion for allowing citizens with hearing impairment to interact with public services and institutions.
Cra. 8a, Bogotá, Colombia
CivLab
CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.
Lehigh University, Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA, USA
Nerima City, Tokyo, Japan
Community Lab at Open Tech Fund
The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.
2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Constitute Project
Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.
Texas, USA
Factory 619, 66 bis Avenue Salah Ben Youssef, Tunis, Tunisia
DemGames
An impactful gaming platform that complements assessment tools around civic and voter education principles for youth, focusing on scalability and fun.
Democracy.com
The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES FOR AN OPEN INTERNET
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.
Digital Stewards Detroit
This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.
Digital Undivided
BLACK AND LATINX WOMEN FOUNDERS + THEIR BIG IDEAS AND HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES + OUR TRAINING, NETWORK, AND ACCESS TO FUNDING = SOMETHING THE STARTUP WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE
Direct Democracy Database
The Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.
Draw the Lines PA
It's our House, so it should be our mouse.
Pennsylvania, USA
Gender and Technology Institutes
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.
Generation Citizen
Generation Citizen believes all students have the right to civics education that prepares them to participate in our democracy.
Global Internet Report
Consolidation in the Internet Economy
How to vote in every state videos
Democracy only works when we vote. But voter laws are different in every state in America, so the process for registering to vote, checking your registration...
10 Hudson Yards, 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA
Monash University, Wellington Rd, Clayton VIC, Australia
Liftware
Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.
Localization Lab
Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world
Michigan Moonshot
The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.
Mozilla Foundation
Established in 2003, guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, the Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all.
Neighborly Networks Accelerator
Let’s work together on your broadband project.
Netblocks
NetBlocks is an open technology platform that helps communities around the world detect and measure internet shutdowns, social media filtering and throttling in real-time.
Netfreedom Pioneers
We are a technology nonprofit committed to inspire and bring positive social change to the world. We harness the medium of innovative, digital technology to promote education, learning, and empowerment - the building blocks to lasting change.
New America Resilient Mesh Wireless initiative
The Resilient Mesh Wireless project is a series of local networks serving small businesses combined with community-based trainings in Sandy-affected areas.
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USA
New Jersey Civic Info Bill
Establishes New Jersey Civic Information Consortium; appropriates $20 million from General Fund and $1 million annually thereafter.
New York City Civic Engagement Commission
The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.
1 Centre Street, New York, NY, USA
New York City, NY, USA
Open Tech Fund
SUPPORTING INTERNET FREEDOM WORLDWIDE Without Fear of Repressive Censorship or Surveillance.
2025 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 USA
Outline VPN offered in Zimbabwe
CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.
Zimbabwe
PB in Schools
Participatory Budgeting Resource Center YOU can help reinvent democracy! Participatory budgeting (PB) depends on hundreds of people like you who want to rebuild the relationship between government and the people. PB gives you real power over how your taxes are spent. What is PB? Download the PDF The Case for PB Learn More Guides and…
Police Case
Police Case uses popular TV culture to educate the public about legal rights and the justice system.
Sierra Leone
Racial Literacy in Tech
Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.
Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis
The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.
RePresent
RePresent is a law game that provides self-represented parties in Connecticut with foundational advocacy experience.
Connecticut
San José Digital Inclusion Fund
San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.
San Jose, California, USA
Seeing AI
A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects
Redmond, WA
Sign Dict
A crowdsourced german sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund
Storyweaver Freedom to Read
StoryWeaver offers open source libraries for children's books in their native languages.
Teaching Public Service
Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age
The 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act
The 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) requires all government-produced digital products, including websites and applications, to be consistent, modern, and mobile-friendly.
United States Capitol, First Street Southeast, Washington, DC, USA
The Civvys: The American Civic Collaboration Awards
Celebrating Partnerships that Strengthen America
The Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST)
a data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions
Pakistan
The Good Lobby
TGL is committed to giving voice to underrepresented public interests and bringing more citizens into the public policy process.
Brussels, Belgium
THE OPEN INTERNET FOR DEMOCRACY PLAYBOOK
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 Smart City Digital Inclusion Maturity Model
The Smart City Digital Inclusion Maturity Model is a tool to help cities worldwide assess and benchmark their level of digital inclusion and ICT accessibility.
WAVE
A man awakens from a coma and speaks a fully-developed but unknowable language that baffles linguists from all over the world.
Wayfindr with TfL
we have developed the world's first internationally-approved standard for accessible audio navigation.
Whose Knowledge
We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.
Wikimedia Germany
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können.
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., Tempelhofer Ufer, Berlin, Germany- 1
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