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Autistici/Inventati

Autistici/Inventati is a long-running Italian digital-rights collective providing privacy-respecting email, hosting, and internet tools to grassroots activists and social movements, now running a campaign against a US terrorist designation it says threatens its servers.

2026

Computable Competition–Cooperation Mechanisms

An open-source reference implementation for making declared multi-actor constraints explicit, reproducible, and challengeable across competition and cooperation scenarios.

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
https://moav.shActiveOpen-source

Mother of all VPNs (MoaV)

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

https://techpolicy.cardsActiveOpen-source

Tech Policy Cards

A card game, inspired by Fluxx, developed around the concepts of internet health and on the issues and policies that we see in tech policy.

Chamber Civics

Chamber Civics shows exactly how legislation will impact you. It pleasantly formats and breaks down legislation into plain English, using the information on your profile to tell you exactly how a bill affects you.

St Louis, MO

OpenYC

OpenYC is an early-stage effort to build a publicly-funded, democratically-governed "public alternative to Y Combinator", a digital public infrastructure for incubating and codifying AI-native digital public goods as a public utility.

Portal Sem Porteiras (PSP)

Rede de Comunicação Comunitária Bairro dos Souzas - Monteiro Lobato

Brazil