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  1. Inspiring Free Thinkers & Fighters
  2. Cultural Freedom Projects
  3. Global Privacy Projects
  4. Global Digital Freedom
  5. Europe
  6. Asia
  7. Africa
  8. Oceania
  9. North America
  10. South America
  11. Middle East

Inspiring Free Thinkers & Fighters

Cultural Freedom Projects

Global Privacy Projects

  • Privacy.org (Portal about privacy)
  • EPIC ("Electronic Privacy
    Information Center")
  • Privacy International
    (Human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance by
    governments and corporations. Inactive site.)
  • Echelon Watch
    (Background information about this global Anglo-Saxon espionage network)
  • Peek-A-Booty
    (Initiative to create a software system that can bypass the nation-wide
    censorship of the WWW practiced by some countries. Inactive project.)

Global Digital Freedom

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
    (Donor-supported membership organization, started in 1990, working to
    protect our fundamental rights, regardless of technology. The EFF tries
    to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil
    liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties.)
  • OpenI18N.org
    (Initiative to develop and promote free standards for
    software internationalization)
    (ml)
  • Xiph
    (Non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet
    multimedia from control by private interests. Xiph supports and develops
    several multimedia software projects.)
  • League for Programming Freedom
    (Donor-supported organization, started in 1989, that opposes software
    patents and user interface copyrights.)
  • Free Standards Group
    (Non-profit organization for promoting and developing the use of
    open standards for Free Software.)
  • FreeDesktop.org (Support
    site for interoperability among free desktop environments)
    (cvs)
    (ml)
  • Free Networks
    (Group of individuals and organizations that are committed to facing
    the social, political and technical issues that occur in the creation
    of free (as-in-speech) networks.)
    (ml)
  • ODFI
    ("Open Data Format Initiative". Non-profit organization promoting
    the use and development of open data formats.)
  • OSSP
    (Open Source Software Project. Non-profit organization sponsoring the
    development of networking libraries and tools.)
  • OpenNIC
    (User owned, international Network Information Center alternative to the
    traditional top-level domain registries. OpenNIC was started in 2000 as a
    reaction to the growing concern about the lack of democratic control within
    the ICANN.)
  • ICANN Watch
    (Critical commentary forum about the ICANN and other DNS related organizations)
  • FreeNet

    (Distributed, scalable, redundant, security and privacy focussed peer-to-peer system.
    This system can be used to publish and retrieve documents anonymously. This system
    also makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for repressive organizations to
    delete content already on the freenet-work. Currently the FreeNet system is still in a
    beta state.)

  • Digital Speech
    (Initiative to encourage and coordinate activism to protect our digital freedoms
    in light of the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA) and similar laws.)
  • Politech
    (Politech is the moderated mailing list of politics and
    technology. Topics include privacy, free speech, the role
    of government and corporations, antitrust, and more.)
  • PubSoft
    (Non-profit organization which sponsors free software developers via 'third-party'
    development requests.)
  • Open Archives
    (Aims to develop and promote digital content interoperability standards.)
  • Free Software Distribution Project
    (Distribution of CD-ROM's containing free operating systems by snail-mail for a nominal fee,
    using voluntary financial donations.)
  • TheOpenCD
    (Initiative to create and distribute a CD-ROM containing a selection of quality
    free software for use on M$ Win32 variants.)
  • Open Source Education Foundation
    (Non-profit organization which tries to support and promote free software for education)
  • LinuxFund ('To be' non-profit
    organization for the financial sponsoring of free software projects
    and scholarships, in the USA and Canada, via a credit card system)
  • CCCP
    (Free Internet hosting to individuals and non-profits)
  • PeerCast
    (Non-profit organization supporting free broadcasting software. PeerCast is also a
    Gnutella protocol based peer-to-peer audio streaming system with support for Ogg Vorbis.)
    (forum)
  • NodeDB
    (Portal which registers publicly accessible 802.11b wireless
    networking nodes around the world)
  • CA Cert
    (Project to provide free client certificates and -maybe at a low
    cost- checked server certificates.)
  • Open Patents
    (Initiative to help change the rules of the (software) patent game,
    such that it is to the advantage of participants and society in general.)

Europe

Asia

Africa

Oceania

  • Linux Australia
    (ml)
  • OpeNZ (New Zealand government)
  • NZOSS
    ("New Zealand Open Source Society". Nonprofit organisation
    to protect, advocate and advance free software in New Zealand.)

North America

South America

Middle East