# We're building an internet that belongs to the people who use it.

AP0110 researches and builds an independent internet — one people can own, control, and verify — and puts it to work for the communities that need it most.

## Who we are

We are researchers, builders, and organizers working on the technology — and the public policy — of an independent internet. We do our research in the open, in a [public wiki](/wiki.md) anyone can read, and we partner with public institutions to turn that research into real-world work. We are not a platform and we don't sell your attention; the people who use our technology are the people it answers to.

## Our story

The idea of an internet built for people is sixty years old. It runs from [Vannevar Bush](/wiki/vannevar-bush.md)'s vision of a personal store of knowledge, through [Berners-Lee](/wiki/berners-lee.md)'s decentralized web, to [Nakamoto](/wiki/nakamoto.md)'s proof that a network needs no central owner. Each step returned a little more control to ordinary people — and each was followed by something that took it back. AP0110 exists to finish the arc.

## How we work

We use technology to research the world, and the world to research technology.

- **Research.** We document the technology of an independent internet in a public, living wiki — every [source](/docs.md) and every synthesis, in the open.
- **Build.** We turn that research into working technology: resilient, self-hosted, owned by the people who run it.
- **Deploy.** We put the technology to work with the public institutions and community groups that reach the people who need it most.

## What we believe

Operator-centric control · privacy & security by architecture · independence from surveillance · community · ethics · education in the open.

## Who we work with

We partner with public institutions and humanitarian organizations to put the technology to work for real communities. See our [partnered projects](/#efforts) for who we work with and what we're building together.

## Working in the open

Our accountability is our openness. The research behind everything we do is public — the [wiki](/wiki.md) and the [source library](/docs.md) behind everything we say.