Technology & Society

As we live an increasingly large part of our lives online, we're increasingly aware that we're facing some problems. Our online lives are scattered across the web: we have accounts on more websites than we can remember, we can't search through all our data from one place, and hackers looking to steal our personal information have a wealth of weak links to target.

Kakigarden is the first p2p, efficient, resilient, economic system for a post-scarcity age.

Follow founders Sebastiano Scrofina, and Leonardo Dario Perna on Twitter.

An ongoing research and development project focusing on the social layer in wireless mesh communities:


KeyWifi is a peer-to-peer wifi company providing a secure platform to share and rent wifi hotspots. We're opening up the Web to drive down communication costs for everyone. KeyWifi is bridging the digital divide between those who can afford Internet access and those who cannot. With KeyWifi anyone can be a wifi supplier and more availability is created for everyone. See KeyWifi.com

Kune is a free/libre web platform focused on: the collaborative edition in real time of free contents, thinking on the collaborative work of collectives and organizations; its publishing on the web; and the communication in social network among social movements, academic groups and social initiatives. Besides, it stresses the CC licenses of contents and usability for humans. Many buzzwords, but we try to take it seriously :) Kune integrates Apache Wave and it's decentralized: users in different servers can interoperate and work together transparently.

We Rebuild is a decentralized cluster of net activists who have joined forces to collaborate on issues concerning access to a free Internet without intrusive surveillance. These issues span over many subjects and areas, which are reflected in a breadth of competences and opinions. There are no leaders, nor members. We Rebuild is simply an international chaotic event, and our actions can not be predicted in detail. We are a flow of passions, and we sometimes refer to our driving force as “data-love”.

Retake the Net is a project initiated by a group of people in Wellington, New Zealand. We are passionate about the possibilities that technology provides us, and we believe that it’s the responsibility of everyone to use its power for good.


The Internet has driven huge changes into our society over the last two decades. New services and tools keep arriving every year. For many of us, it’s impossible to imagine life without an open Internet where people can publish their ideas to their friend or to the world without asking for permission or paying a middle-man.

Facebook is dramatically changing the way we communicate with our friends, family, business associates, and the other groups of people in our lives.

We are pressured to become “friends” with people that we would not have had ongoing communication with prior to Facebook.

We are also pressured to share more and more personal information with not only “friends” but “friends of friends”.

Project Byzantium is a rapidly deployable, improvisable mesh networking environment which people can use to communicate and collaborate during times when the telecommunication infrastructure is unavailable or has been compromised. Project Byzantium aims to help solve the Egypt Problem (telecommunications are unavailable or heavily filtered, as in the case of Egypt in January 2011) as well as the Katrina Problem (a natural disaster such as a hurricane or blizzard knocks out large portions of the infrastructure).

What is FreedomBox?


- Email and telecommunications that protects privacy and resists eavesdropping


- A publishing platform that resists oppression and censorship.


- An organizing tool for democratic activists in hostile regimes.


- An emergency communication network in times of crisis.


FreedomBox is the name we give to a personal server running a free
software operating system, with free applications designed to create and
preserve personal privacy.


FreedomBox software is particularly tailored to run in "plug servers,"