An independent internet, built for everyone.
AP0110 researches and builds technology people can own and verify — and puts it to work for the communities that have been surveilled, sidelined, or left offline.
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The internet stopped working for us.
The first web was built for universities, the next for advertisers, the latest for machines. Somewhere along the way the internet became something done to people — tracked by default, owned by a handful of companies, and quick to fail the communities that can least afford it: the ones that go dark when the grid does, or that were never connected at all.
It doesn't have to be this way.
How we work
We use technology to research the world, and the world to research technology. The Independent Internet — Web 4.0 — is one product of that work: an internet people can run themselves, that keeps working when the grid goes down, and that answers to its community rather than a company.
Research
We trace and document the technology of an independent internet — sixty years of it — in a public wiki anyone can read.
Build
We turn that research into working technology — resilient, owned by the people who run it, and free from surveillance.
Deploy
We put it to work with the public institutions and community groups that reach the people who need it most.
Partnered Projects
Our research already powers work with public institutions and humanitarian partners.
CalCompute
Working with California and the University of California toward public AI that's safe, fair, and built for everyone — not just those who can afford it.
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Human Rights & Technology
Advising UNA-USA on how technology can uphold human rights — and protect them — in the digital age.
UNAUSA.org >
Fight Child Trafficking
Partnering with Life Impact International to put protective technology in the hands of anti-trafficking groups around the world.
LifeImpactIntl.org >Help build an internet that belongs to everyone.
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