The internet belongs to all of us. Let's take it back.
We build and fund contra-infrastructure: tools, learning and money for communities that refuse to rent their digital lives from Big Tech.
We know this works.
Lessons learnt from crowdfunding the commons — with Goteo.org
Fifteen years, €25 million, and thousands of campaigns later, Goteo.org has built something rarer than a crowdfunding platform: a working...
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Our socials, not our trap
How the Newsmast Foundation builds community-first social media apps on open protocols, moving whole communities off Big Tech one 'digita...
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Feeding the Commons: How Foodsoft Keeps 60 Rotterdammers Fed — From a Server in Someone's Closet
How Biobulkbende, a 60-member Rotterdam food co-op, runs on a second-hand self-hosted server — and what it would take to build a sustaina...
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Institutions & funders
Not charity, but counter-investment. Let's talk about the funding model.
Get in touchBig Tech is political infrastructure. The answer is public-interest technology, and it only works if we own it.
When the rails of public life are privately owned, their owners set the terms of public life. Contra-infrastructure puts those rails back in community hands.
Read our visionWhat we do
Four interlocking services for digital autonomy: build it, learn it, fund it, federate it.
Who's behind it
A growing federation of cooperatives and public-interest organisations.
