Digital rights

Digital rights are the human rights and legal rights that apply in the digital domain, including the right to privacy, freedom of expression, access to the internet, protection from digital discrimination and harassment, and the right to knowledge about how personal data is used.

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Africa Digital Rights Hub
africadigitalrightshub.org

Africa Digital Rights Hub

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

Accra
Civil society research outfits, Research and policy centers, Ethical tech and responsible tech
Azerbaijan Internet Watch
az-netwatch.org

Azerbaijan Internet Watch

All about information controls in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan) 🇦🇿
Digital security and privacy, Digital rights
Panoptykon Foundation
panoptykon.org

Panoptykon Foundation

The Panoptykon Foundation arose from the belief that negative social phenomenon should not be ignored, along with the belief that – thanks to knowledge, commitment, and determination – we can change t...

Warsaw, Poland
Digital rights, Adjacent Fields, Digital security and privacy
Horizontal
wearehorizontal.org/index.html

Horizontal

Horizontal works with human rights defenders and frontline activists in highly repressive environments–in places where dissent is a crime, where basic freedoms are routinely trampled on. But developin...

Washington, DC
Digital rights, Digital security and privacy, Civic apps outfits
Metamorphosis Foundation
metamorphosis.org.mk

Metamorphosis Foundation

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government t...

Skopje, North Macedonia
Watchdogging and transparency, Government transparency, Digital rights
EngageMedia
engagemedia.org

EngageMedia

EngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology, and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet, and open technologies to create social and environmental change.

Thailand (Prathet Thai) 🇹🇭
Media, Advocacy tech, Campaign organizations
EngageMedia Digital Rights program
engagemedia.org/digitalrights

EngageMedia Digital Rights program

We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.

Thailand (Prathet Thai) 🇹🇭
Digital rights, Adjacent Fields
Human Rights Watch
hrw.org

Human Rights Watch

Defending Human Rights Worldwide

Digital rights
RosKomSvoboda
roskomsvoboda.org

RosKomSvoboda

RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.

Russian Federation 🇷🇺
since 2012
Advocacy tech, Digital rights, Digital security and privacy
Team CommUNITY
digitalrights.community

Team CommUNITY

Want to join the global digital rights and internet freedom community? We providing events, services, job board, community spaces, and more!

London
Digital rights, Digital security and privacy, Adjacent Fields
Digital Rights Job Board
digitalrights.community/job-board

Digital Rights Job Board

The Digital Rights Job Board features diverse opportunities from organizations, grassroots networks, companies and other types of entities from 130+ countries working at the intersection of technology...

London
Find a job or hire someone, Job boards, Digital rights
Worker Info Exchange
workerinfoexchange.org

Worker Info Exchange

Data Rights for Digital Workers

London
Crowdsourcing, Civic data, Peer networks
labor
SMEX Fellowship on Technology and Human Rights
smex.org/2023-smex-fellowship-on-technology-and-human-rights

SMEX Fellowship on Technology and Human Rights

SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to...

Beirut
Fellowships, Digital rights
Internet Freedom Foundation
internetfreedom.in

Internet Freedom Foundation

IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.

New Delhi
Digital rights, Adjacent Fields, Campaign organizations
Center for Digital Democracy
democraticmedia.org

Center for Digital Democracy

The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and hum...

Washington, DC
Consumer watchdogging, Digital security and privacy, Digital rights
Article 19
article19.org

Article 19

ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.

London
Digital rights, Access to information
human rights, Access to Information Community of Practice
Decolonising Digital Rights
digitalfreedomfund.org/decolonising

Decolonising Digital Rights

The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.

Amsterdam
Ethical tech and responsible tech, Digital rights, Diversity & Inclusion
Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)
digitalfreedomfund.org

Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)

The Digital Freedom Fund supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation.

Amsterdam
Digital rights, Pro bono and volunteer, Legal tech
Coalizão Direitos na Rede
direitosnarede.org.br

Coalizão Direitos na Rede

The Rights in the Network Coalition is a network of entities that brings together more than 40 academic and civil society organizations in defense of digital rights, with the main themes of action: ac...

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷
Digital rights, Partner networks and coalitions, Digital security and privacy
Annir Initiative
annir.ly

Annir Initiative

Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.

Libya (Libiyah) 🇱🇾
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
stopspying.org

The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)

S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.

New York University
Research and policy centers, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Digital security and privacy
Electronic Frontier Alliance
eff.org/fight

Electronic Frontier Alliance

The Electronic Frontier Alliance is a grassroots network of community and campus organizations across the United States working to educate our neighbors about the importance of digital rights. Organiz...

San Francisco
Partner networks and coalitions, Digital rights
Access Now
accessnow.org

Access Now

Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of people and communities at risk. By combining direct technical support, strategic advocacy, grassroots grantmaking, and convenings such as RightsCon...

Digital rights, Campaign organizations, Advocacy tech
The IO Foundation
theiofoundation.org

The IO Foundation

Providing solutions to respect and protect your Digital Rights

Digital rights
AWO
awo.agency

AWO

We’re a new agency working across the world to shape, apply and enforce data rights. We have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working out of offices in London, Brusse...

Europe
Digital rights, Digital security and privacy
Xnet Institute For Democratic Digitalisation
xnet-x.net

Xnet Institute For Democratic Digitalisation

An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy

Barcelona
Digital rights, Consumer watchdogging, Watchdogging and transparency
Awana Digital
awana.digital

Awana Digital

Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

San Francisco
since 2008
Digital rights, Disaster response and humanitarian tech
Sustainable cities and communities, human rights, migration
The State of Digital Rights in Indonesia
engagemedia.org/projects/research-digital-rights-indonesia

The State of Digital Rights in Indonesia

Report by EngageMedia

Thailand (Prathet Thai) 🇹🇭
Digital rights
Open Rights Group
openrightsgroup.org

Open Rights Group

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online

Digital rights, Campaign organizations
JAAKLAC initiative
jaaklac.org

JAAKLAC initiative

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

Finland (Suomi) 🇫🇮
Digital rights, Digital security and privacy, Ethical tech and responsible tech
Digital Rights Now
digitalrightsnow.ca

Digital Rights Now

Driving business growth through effective marketing

Canada 🇨🇦
since 2018
Organize campaigns, Digital rights
Small Media
smallmedia.org.uk

Small Media

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities global...

London
Adjacent Fields, Build something, Digital security and privacy
Ranking Digital Rights
rankingdigitalrights.org

Ranking Digital Rights

Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy

740 15th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005
since 2013
Indicators, Report cards and audits, Evaluate impact
The Engine Room
theengineroom.org

The Engine Room

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

since 2011
Emerging Tech report orgs, Learn about civic tech, Research and policy centers
Discotechs
web.archive.org/web/20140530203556/http://codesign.mit.edu:80/category/discotech-2

Discotechs

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

Detroit, MI
Adjacent Fields, Digital literacy, Digital rights
youth, workshops
Electronic Frontier Foundation
eff.org

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.

815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
since 1990
Emerging Tech report orgs, Predecessors & Pioneers, Digital rights
Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR)
dtpr.io

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR)

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.

Toronto
Smart Cities and sensors, Trustmarks, Digital rights
place-based, city, Sustainable cities and communities
Baratunde's Tech Manifesto
medium.com/s/trustissues/a-new-tech-manifesto-21d251058af3

Baratunde's Tech Manifesto

The stories turn up daily: Social media is being used to undermine democracy. Someone has run off with millions of Social Security numbers stored by a major financial institution. Internet service…

since 2018
Digital rights, Manifestos, The People
Bot Populi
botpopuli.net

Bot Populi

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organ...

Media, The Tech, Digital rights
The Toronto Declaration: Protecting the rights to equality and non-discrimination in machine learning systems
accessnow.org/the-toronto-declaration-protecting-the-rights-to-equality-and-non-discrimination-in-machine-learning-systems

The Toronto Declaration: Protecting the rights to equality and non-discrimination in machine learning systems

Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018

since 2018
Digital rights, Manifestos, The People
Wikimedia Germany
wikimedia.de/themen

Wikimedia Germany

Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können.

Wikimedia Deutschland
Digital rights, Open data publishing platforms, Open internet
La Asociación de Tecnología, Educación, Desarrollo, Investigación, Comunicación (TEDIC)
tedic.org

La Asociación de Tecnología, Educación, Desarrollo, Investigación, Comunicación (TEDIC)

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos

Padre Cardozo 719 c/ Teniente Ruiz, Las Mercedes, Asunción
since 2012
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Digital security and privacy
Gender Equality
PersonalData.IO
personaldata.io

PersonalData.IO

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

Impact Hub Geneva, Rue Fendt, Geneva, Switzerland
since 2018
Adjacent Fields, Digital rights, Digital security and privacy
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