Douglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is...
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Business & Social Commerce
OurGoods exists so that creative people can help each other produce independent projects. More work gets done in networks of shared respect and... |
What is Chagora? |
Hey, Neighbor! is an online network that brings neighbors together for collaboration and trusted connections. Right next door, neighbors can... |
BEEx.org is a place where people raise money and awareness for organizations by doing stuff. Organizations can register free for our service. |
At IndieGoGo, we’re passionate about what you're passionate about. Our mission is to enable you to get your ideas funded. |
The Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility Marketplace is an innovative peer-to-peer mutual credit system embedded within the largest green... |
Seeks to build a platform and protocol standards that will allow for multiple and interoperable currencies to exist on the Internet. Just as... |
Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of... |
Microtask is a distributed work expert founded in 2009 by four Finnish serial entrepreneurs. Its services are based on a proprietary software... |
Third Rail Ventures is a new startup to build the capacity of triple bottom line entrepreneurs and to support enterprise as a vehicle for social... |
Openworld wants to create an online game to help... |
Community Forge offers over 50 community groups who use mutual credit accounting each a free hosted web... |
We are an expanding open collaborative enterprise, designed for a rapidly changing environment, tuned for the know-how economy. In fact, we are an... |
Foursquare is a location-based mobile platform that makes cities easier to use and more interesting to explore. By “checking in” via a smartphone... |
Community Tools is helping local communities to organize locally in the face of an uncertain future. We... |
Bernal Bucks is an initiative dedicated to strengthening the economic livelihood of the Bernal Heights neighborhood in San Francisco. The Bernal... |
Our mission is to empower people to change the way the global economy works. We see a world in which very-very small businesses have much-much... |
How can an open project share revenue between contributors? PieTrust |
Superfluid provides social currencies that compensate real efforts, without requiring conventional money. Social networks, online and off, allow... |
The Digital City Project is building Digital Economy Ecosystems which will be anchored by 100,000's of online multimedia projects which will be... |
Technology & Society
The goal of the ‘Project Matching’ infrastructure project is to create a a ‘Dating Site’ for the Climate Action Movement. There are many projects... |
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We Rebuild is a decentralized cluster of net activists who have joined forces to collaborate on issues concerning access to a free Internet... |
P2P browser plugin & open source P2P platform built on a VoIP stack. It's a standards-based peer-to-peer application that works directly from... |
The Free Network Foundation is an organization whose purpose is to steward the creation of a censorship-proof, disruption-resistant, global peer-... |
Kune is a free/libre web platform focused on: the collaborative edition in real time of free contents, thinking on the collaborative work of... |
Lantern is a peer-to-peer censorship circumvention and monitoring tool built on the LittleShoot platform. It takes a new approach to circumvention... |
What is FreedomBox? |
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... |
Box with inmarsat terminal, wifi access point, and GSM basestation to provide internet & mobile phone service to indy journalists in crisis... |
Project Byzantium is a rapidly deployable, improvisable mesh networking environment which people can use to communicate and collaborate during... |
An ongoing research and development project focusing on the social layer in wireless mesh communities:
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A free software and an open network to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy... |
Facebook is dramatically changing the way we communicate with our friends, family, business associates, and the other groups of people in our... |
Kakigarden is the first p2p, efficient, resilient, economic system for a post-scarcity age. |
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Retake the Net is a project initiated by a group of people in Wellington, New Zealand. We are passionate about the possibilities that technology... |
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... |
Government
Technology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. This site is one hub for the conversation already underway between political... |
The scope of the Multitude Project is to drive the multitude social movement. In other words, we try to understand how the new technology is... |
Currently, actual citizens do not have any real say in the drafting of actual legislation. The process of creating legislation is lengthy, the... |
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse collects and analyzes legal threats to online expression, helping Internet users to know their rights and... |
In 2008, we formed Digital Democracy (Dd) based on a simple but powerful idea: Technology should be used to empower even the most marginalized... |
The MoveOn family of organizations brings real Americans back into the political process. With 5 million members across America — from carpenters... |
Arts & Learning
Green Breakfast Club is a monthly networking event series kicking off this spring to accelerate social innovation and sustainability. Every month... |
Tummelvision is a weekly salon style podcast and hub focused on the practice of tummeling as the answer to how we collaborate in a world that is... |
Students in Loveland, CO crafted a four year plan of disruption to redefine school. We are just beginning year two. Year four has community/life... |
The New Hive is a creative tool that makes self-expression online fun and easy. |
Our mission is to stimulate and enhance face-to-face communication between people in the same room using technology. A great deal of time, energy... |
Our Bookshelf lets you share ebooks with your friends via a social network environment, while allowing you to make new friends through an interest... |
The LibraryFarm is an organic community garden on one-half acre of land owned by Northern Onondaga Public Library in Cicero, NY. Anyone can “check... |
Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open... |
KOSMOS is an ancient Greek term meaning the harmony and beauty of the universe wherein all parts have their place within the Whole. It signifies... |
SNAPGardens is a campaign to raise awareness that SNAP (food stamps) can be used to purchase food-producing plants and seeds. |
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