Projects - Adjacent Fields

Law for Me

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

LawforMe attempts to make the law and legal processes accessible to all citizens by simplifying Indian laws throughthe use of design and technology.

Information Controls Fellowship

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Raoul Wallenberg Place Southwest, Washington, DC

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.

free speech

Center for Digital Resilience

Building resilient systems to keep civil society safe online

PatternBuilder (formerly Community Lawyer, AfterPattern)

Brooklyn

The Afterpattern app builder is now PatternBuilder, a capability within NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-based content management platform where legal professionals do work.

commercial

Be My Eyes

Åbogade 15, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark

Bringing sight to blind and low-vision people

apps
blind

Uitelkaar

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

Uitelkaar helps couples organise their separation or divorce procedure online. The website offers step-by-step consultation and complete guidance at a fixed price.

Ours to hack and own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.

books
coop

NNIP Catalog of data trainings

The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC

This catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.

trainings

Gravyty Stewardship

The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.

Project Defenders Sustainable Emergency Grants

Brussels

Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.

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...

state

Anatomy of an AI System

An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor

Data Zetu Intiaitive

Tanzania, United Republic of (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) 🇹🇿

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

Grantnav

360Giving, York Way, London, UK

Search, explore and download UK grant data from funders publishing open data to the 360Giving Standard.

Legal Health Check-up

Halton Community Legal Services, Dorval Drive, Oakville, ON, Canada

Halton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.

No poverty

Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

Gower Street, London, UK

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

books

Tele Law

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

Tele Law facilitates the delivery of legal aid to marginalized communities, by connecting individuals with lawyersthrough volunteer-run service centres.

Pakistani Lawyer

Pakistan 🇵🇰

Pakistani Lawyer is web-based platform that provides contact details of lawyers, as well as resources to educate students and non-lawyers about Pakistani law.

Social Media Exchange (SMEX)

Beirut

Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments

trainings

Tempo – Time Credits

15 Old Ford Road, London E2 9PJ, UK

We co-design and deliver Time Credits programmes in partnership with local authorities, health, social care and housing providers, schools, businesses and voluntary sector organisations.

Humanity Road

Humanity Road is a disaster response 501c3 charity specializing in sourcing critical information and resources when disaster strikes.

ClickLaw

British Columbia

ClickLaw provides legal information and a map of legal support services in British Columbia.

Outline VPN offered in Zimbabwe

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.

New America Resilient Mesh Wireless initiative

Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY

The Resilient Mesh Wireless project is a series of local networks serving small businesses combined with community-based trainings in Sandy-affected areas.

Immi

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Immi helps immigrants understand their rights and options during the immigration process. The website’s guided process helps users determine their path to legal immigration, and offers a list of organisations and self-help resources.

WebWeWant

We help everyone to shape and claim the future of the Web.

Steps to Justice

Ontario

Steps to Justice provides users with step-by-step legal information, practical tools, and referral information for legal and social services across Ontario.

HeLawyer

Benin (Bénin) 🇧🇯

HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.

Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

Localization Lab

Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world

Colnodo

Colnodo, Diagonal 40a, Bogota, Colombia

Digital security training and resources in Colombia

Google Person Finder

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

Google

Gavel.ng

Lagos

Gavel is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving the pace of justice delivery in Nigeria through digital technology and citizen engagement.

Health Complaints Assist

Australia 🇦🇺

Health Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.

The Cleaners

Boxhagener Str. 106, 10245 Berlin, Germany

It tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.

Humanitarian Knowledge Base

San Francisco

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

Intersection

10 Hudson Yards, 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10001

Connecting brands and consumers

Gender and Technology Resources wiki

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”.

LegalApp

Colombia 🇨🇴

Digital tool that helps Colombian citizens know where, how and what to do regarding their everyday legal paperwork

NYC Connectivity Challenge

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

De Blasio Administration Launches NYCx to Stimulate Economic Growth, Create Jobs and Solve Big Challenges Through New Technologies

Darcy

Darcy will allow everyone to run their own federated social media instance – without having to worry about technology, moderation or legal compliance, because Darcy will take care of that for you – if you want!

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)

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.