Freedom
Table of Contents
- Inspiring Free Thinkers & Fighters
- Cultural Freedom Projects
- Global Privacy Projects
- Global Digital Freedom
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Oceania
- North America
- South America
- Middle East
- Independant News Sites
(from the News section)
- Free Software Contributing Companies
(from the Companies section)
- Written
language projects (from the Multimedia section)
- Educational Software Portals
(from the Education section)
- Educational Freedom Organizations
(from the Educational Software section)
- Scientific Publication Portals
(from the Scientific Software section)
- Scientific Software Portals
(from the Scientific Software section)
- Social Speeches
(Large MP3 collection of speeches on social issues)
- Violence.de
(Online documents related to the theme: "The origins of peace and violence")
- WorldChanging
("Models, Tools, and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future")
- The Internet Archive
(Initiative for building a digital library of Internet sites and other
cultural artifacts in digital form to help preserver these for researchers,
historians, scholars, and the general public)
- PLoS ("Public Library of Science".
Online library of free scientific publications.
License:
Creative Commons Attribution License.)
- Center for the
Public Domain (Non-profit organization to help support works of art,
science, technology and law within the public domain)
- Freedom Archives
(Collection of over 30 years of interesting and sometimes 'endangered'
audio recordings that are culturally relevant)
- Common Content
(Catalog of works licensed under the
Creative Commons licenses)
- Open Art (Online archive of
images, music and animation films. License:
Attribution-ShareAlike)
- Unschooling
(Portal about "unschooling". Unschooling is an alternative form of a child's
primary and/or secondary education done from a home environment.)
(John Taylor Gatto's website)
- Cryptome
(Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments
worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology,
dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and blast protection
-- open, secret and classified documents -- but not limited to those.)
- OSHCA
("Open Source Health Care Alliance". Forum to promote and facilitate
OSS/FS in human and veterinary healthcare.)
- 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.)
- 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)
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- 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.)
- 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.)
