Flashcards: Internet-related activism

Ushahidi, Inc. is a non-profit software company that develops free and open-source software (LGPL) for information collection, visualisation, and interactive mapping.

FireChat is a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which uses wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity Framework without an internet connection by connecting peer-to-peer.

Reporters Without Borders/ Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press.

The Czech Pirate Party (Czech: Česká pirátská strana), short - Pirates (Czech: Piráti) is a political party in the Czech Republic, founded in 2009.

TestPAC (formerly known as "TestPAC, Please Ignore") is a crowdfunded, non-connected political action committee in the United States.

VoiceX is an open source platform designed to create an information ecosystem for people in developing world, with low-end feature phones that can't connect to the Internet, to generate, manage, retrieve, and search information.

The European Pirates (PIRATES) or European Pirate Party (PPEU) is an association of parties aspiring to be recognised as a European political party by the European Union.

The Alternative Informatics Association (Turkish: Alternatif Bilişim Derneği) is an Istanbul, Turkey based civil society organization focusing on the issues of media literacy, Internet censorship, and mass surveillance.

The Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 was established by in 1993 as an arts and culture related international competence platform for the critical use of information and communication technologies.

Nerdfighteria is a community subculture, based mainly online.

The Association Electronique Libre (AEL, sometimes written Association électronique libre) is a Belgian non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in Belgium.

Comunes is a non-profit organization with the stated aims of encouraging the Commons and facilitating the grassroots work through free/libre web tools.

Move Your Domain Day is a domain name transferring initiative, initially in response to GoDaddy's support of the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Briar is an open-source software mesh networking technology, intended to provide secure and resilient peer to peer communications with no centralized servers and minimal reliance on external infrastructure.

The Benton Foundation is a nonprofit organization set up by former U.

The Serval Project (often referred to as Serval) is a project financed by the Shuttleworth Foundation, as well as various other organisations and accepting individual donations.

RNW Media, or RNW for short (acronym of its former name Radio Nederland Wereldomroep; English: Radio Netherlands Worldwide), is a public multimedia non-governmental organisation based in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

The Estonian Pirate Party (Estonian: Eesti Piraadipartei) is a support group to form a political party in Estonia.

Fight for the Future (often abbreviated fightfortheftr or FFTF) is a nonprofit advocacy group in the area of digital rights founded in 2011.

Garden Networks is a not-for-profit organization registered in Canada, that specializes in providing Internet anti-censorship/Internet privacy products for free.

The Global Network Initiative (GNI) is a non-governmental organization with the dual goals of preventing Internet censorship by authoritarian governments and protecting the Internet privacy rights of individuals.

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace.

Digitalcourage – known until November 2012 as FoeBuD (Verein zur Förderung des öffentlichen bewegten und unbewegten Datenverkehrs) – is a German privacy and digital rights organisation.

GreatFire (GreatFire.org) is a non-profit organization that monitors the status of websites censored by the Great Firewall of China and helps Chinese Internet users circumvent the censorship and blockage of websites in China.

Intelexit – is an international project that helps Intelligence officers to exit their organisations because of ethical or psychological reasons.

The Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) is a research center at Central European University (CEU) that focuses on media, communication and information policy.

Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash (BSDMS) is a Facebook group where members can share and discuss Internet memes relating to American politician and junior United States senator Bernie Sanders.

Free Press is a United States advocacy group.

The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2006 in the Netherlands.

Riseup is a volunteer-run collective providing secure email account, email list, VPN, online chat, and other online services; the organization was launched by activists in Seattle in 1999.

Department of Records is an independent record label founded in New York City by composer Dražen Bošnjak and producer Jacqueline Bošnjak in 2014.

Lumen, formerly Chilling Effects, is a collaborative archive created by Wendy Seltzer and founded along with several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect lawful online activity from legal threats.

DemocracyInAction, or DIA, is a Washington, D.

The A-Infos Radio Project was formed in October 1996 by Lyn Gerry and other grassroots broadcasters, free radio journalists and cyber-activists to provide the means to share radio programs via the Internet.

La Quadrature du Net (Squaring of the Net in French) is a French advocacy group that promotes digital rights and freedoms of citizens.