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https://openai.com/daybreakActive

Daybreak for Frontline Defenders

Daybreak for Frontline Defenders is OpenAI's $1B initiative subsidizing AI cyber-defense tools, training, and support for under-resourced defenders of essential services, water, power, local government, community banks, with a US public-sector pilot via MS-ISAC.

2026
Adjacent Fields, Agentic AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Building in the private sector, Build something, Civic teams at tech companies, Cybersecurity, Digital security and privacy, Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Emerging tech, Govtech, Learn to build, Supporting public sector from outside government, Tech for public challenges, The People, The Tech
https://moav.shActiveOpen-source

Mother of all VPNs (MoaV)

Multi-protocol Internet censorship circumvention stack optimized for hostile network environments.

Circumvention tech, Digital security and privacy, Internet shutdowns, Open source, VPN
https://responsiveprivacy.org/Active

Responsive Privacy

Responsive Privacy is an open-source framework and toolset that helps civil-society and nonprofit organizations rapidly and reversibly reduce their staff's digital exposure during acute threats (harassment, doxxing), so they can protect vulnerable team members without permanently sacrificing the visibility they need to operate.

2026
Digital rights, Digital security and privacy, Nonprofit tech, Open source
https://dashchat.orgActiveOpen-source

Dash Chat

Secure messaging that keeps working when the internet doesn't.

Chat and messaging, Circumvention tech, Digital security and privacy, Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Internet shutdowns, Mesh networks
https://nothing2hide.orgActive

Nothing2Hide

Nous fournissons aux journalistes et activistes des services d'urgence permettant de faire face aux menaces et à la surveillance numérique : hotline, formations, outils de contournement de la censure, analyse de périphériques.

France
Circumvention tech, Digital security and privacy, Media literacy, Open-source intelligence (OSINT)
https://shapinghercity.tilda.ws/Active

Shaping HerCity

Civic tech and urban safety project that uses participatory research and co-design with women and LGBTQ+ communities to map safe/unsafe spaces and build community-driven tools— including a safe space certification, anti-harassment interventions, and a digital platform for trusted mobility, peer support, and collective care.

Dublin, Ireland
Civic maps, Crowdsourcing, Digital security and privacy, Diversity & Inclusion, Solidarity networks
https://www.entidad.io/Active

Entidad.io

Community Technology Based on Data Sovereignty

Los Angeles, CA
Access social benefits, Data governance, Digital security and privacy, Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Identity
https://www.unmio.com/Active

Unmio

Serve your community. Protect their privacy.

Los Angeles, CA
Data governance, Digital security and privacy, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Identity
https://raft.foundationActive

Raft Foundation

Raft Foundation is a US-based 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor that brings communities together to support neighbors in need through:

Decentralization, Digital security and privacy, Funders & donors, Get funding, Mutual aid