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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.

generic-comment-analyzer

A regulation-agnostic pipeline for analyzing public comments on U.S. federal regulations (regulations.gov).

2026

GreenEarth Observability

GreenEarth is an open-source project building alternative social-media feeds for Bluesky/ATProto that rank posts not just by predicted "likes" but by a constructiveness score, with a full transparency panel showing why you're seeing each post and controls to tune the algorithm yourself.

2026

Developers Italia

Developers Italia è il progetto pubblico che promuove un modo condiviso di pensare, costruire e far evolvere il software della Pubblica Amministrazione

hpd-lookup

An open-source parser and web component that turns NYC HPD housing violation records into plain English.

New York City

The City of Sault Ste. Marie

The official City of Sault Ste. Marie website, your central hub for municipal services, community information, and local updates.

Canada

Interoperability Test Bed

The Interoperability Test Bed is a service offered by the European Commission’s DIGIT to facilitate the conformance testing of IT systems.

Rue Royale 941000, Brussels, Belgium

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