# 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.

## 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. Today, every device talks through a central server — a single point of failure; when it dies, every device goes offline with it. Add mesh links between the devices and the same failure just reroutes: traffic flows device-to-device and the network stays online. 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](/wiki.md) 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](/calcompute/) — California and the University of California, toward public AI that's safe, fair, and built for everyone.
- [Human Rights & Technology](/unausa/) — advising **UNA-USA** on how technology can uphold human rights in the digital age.
- [Fight Child Trafficking](/children/) — partnering with **Life Impact International** to put protective technology in the hands of anti-trafficking groups worldwide.

Help build an internet that belongs to everyone — [explore our research](/wiki/web4.md) or [read our story](/about/).