Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet It is wonderful to see the growing number of people working on digital commons, inventing and improving technologies to the benefit of all humanity. 42 of such projects have been selected for funding in the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund. In terms of applications, it was the largest call round in NGI Zero's life time. And we'd like to take this space to thank all applicants for their contributions to an internet for people rather than for profit. The selected projects all contribute, one way or another, to the mission of the Commons Fund: reclaiming the public nature of the internet. For example, there are people working on MNT Reform Touch (an open hardware tablet device) and the Solar FemtoTX motherboard — a collaborative effort to create an ultra-low power motherboard that can run on solar power. The Open Terms Archive offers public tracking of the evolution of terms and condit ... Read full article.