References and Project Index
> 6.3 References
► Civil Society, Digital Rights & Platform Governance
CIVICUS Monitor. “Tracking Civic Space Worldwide.” 2024–2025.
https://monitor.civicus.org
UN Human Rights Council. “Reports of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association.” 2024.
https://www.ohchr.org
Access Now. “The State of Internet Shutdowns 2024.”
https://www.accessnow.org/internet-shutdowns
Digital Defenders Partnership. “Digital Threats & Protection for Human Rights Defenders.” 2024.
https://digitaldefenders.org
The Engine Room. “Understanding Digital Capacity in Civil Society.” 2024.
https://theengineroom.org
Mozilla Foundation. “Internet Health Report.” 2024–2025.
https://foundation.mozilla.org
SMEX. “Regional Digital Rights Reporting (MENA).”
https://smex.org
7amleh. “Palestinian Digital Rights Reports.”
https://7amleh.org
Derechos Digitales. “Annual Latin America Digital Rights Review.”
https://derechosdigitales.org
► Public Interest Digital Infrastructure (DPI)
GovStack. “Building Digital Public Infrastructure with Open Standards.” 2023–2025.
https://govstack.global
Digital Public Goods Alliance. “Digital Public Goods Registry.”
https://digitalpublicgoods.net
India Stack. “Digital Public Infrastructure for Identity, Payments, Data.”
https://indiastack.org
MOSIP. “Modular Open Source Identity Platform.”
https://mosip.io
Estonia X-Road. “Interoperability Framework.”
https://x-road.global
European Commission. “Digital Services Act and Digital Governance Programmes.” 2024.
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
Eurosky Project (Early Development Reference).
https://eurosky.eu (placeholder/early-stage)
► Federated & Decentralised Social Infrastructure
W3C. “ActivityPub: Protocol for Decentralised Social Networking.”
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub
Mastodon. “Fediverse Social Networking.”
https://joinmastodon.org
PeerTube. “Decentralised Video Hosting.”
https://joinpeertube.org
Bluesky / AT Protocol.
https://atproto.com
Framasoft. “Public-Interest Digital Services.”
https://framasoft.org
► Participation, Deliberation & Governance
Decidim. “Participatory Democracy Platform & Governance Model.”
https://decidim.org
Pol.is. “Large-Scale Digital Deliberation.”
https://pol.is
Your Priorities (Citizens Foundation Iceland).
https://yrpri.org
Loomio. “Collaborative Decision-Making.”
https://loomio.org
vTaiwan Digital Democracy Initiative.
https://vtaiwan.tw
Aragon. “Modular Governance Frameworks.”
https://aragon.org
Giveth. “Community-Driven Governance and Funding.”
https://giveth.io
Open Collective. “Transparent Fiscal Hosting Infrastructure.”
https://opencollective.com
Hypha Worker Co-operative.
https://hypha.coop
WEF. “Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Toolkit.” 2023.
https://www.weforum.org/publications/decentralized-autonomous-organization-toolkit
► Identity, Human Verification & Proof of Personhood
BrightID. “Social Graph Identity Verification.”
https://brightid.org
Proof of Humanity.
https://proofofhumanity.id
Worldcoin.
https://worldcoin.org
W3C. “Verifiable Credentials Data Model.”
https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model
Mozilla. “Digital Credentials Working Papers.”
https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model
Polkadot – proof of personhood/individuality protocol
https://polkadot.com/blog/proof-of-personhood-polkadot-project-individuality/
► Community Data, Inclusive AI, and Open Models
Masakhane. “African Natural Language Processing (NLP).”
https://masakhane.io
LatinX NLP.
https://latinxnlp.org
Hugging Face. “Open Models & Transparency Tools.”
https://huggingface.co
BigScience Project / BLOOM Model.
https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom
IDRC. “Inclusive AI and Digital Resilience.”
https://idrc.ca
GSMA. “Mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2024.”
https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment
UN Broadband Commission. “Connectivity & Inclusion Reports.”
https://www.broadbandcommission.org
► Safety, Security & Crisis Infrastructure
Signal Foundation.
https://signal.org
Matrix Foundation.
https://matrix.org
► Element (per your request — all relevant links):
Main site: https://element.io
Documentation: https://element.io/help
Security overview: https://element.io/security
Open source repository: https://github.com/vector-im
Cwtch.
https://cwtch.im
Session.
https://getsession.org
Briar.
https://briarproject.org
goTenna.
https://gotenna.com
OONI – Open Observatory of Network Interference.
https://ooni.org
IPFS – InterPlanetary File System.
https://ipfs.tech
Security First – Umbrella.
https://securityfirst.org
Access Now Helpline.
https://www.accessnow.org/help
Scrutineer.
https://scrutineer.dev
Redact.
https://redact.dev
► Knowledge & Commons Ecosystem
Wikimedia Foundation.
https://wikimediafoundation.org
OpenStreetMap.
https://openstreetmap.org
Creative Commons.
https://creativecommons.org
► Hosting, Websites, and Self-Managed Ops
WordPress.org
https://wordpress.org
Netlify CMS
https://www.netlifycms.org
Nextcloud
https://nextcloud.com
Cloudron
https://cloudron.io