Public Service Internet

"The Well-being of Future Generations Act gives us the ambition, permission and legal obligation to improve our social, cultural, environmental and economic well-being."

Social network based on Scuttlebug

"This discussion paper explores the rapidly evolving landscape of how we behave and interact online, and how businesses respond. The internet has transformed how we live, work and relate to one another. We can make 'friends' around the world without ever saying 'hello', compare products from dozens of shops without leaving the house, or plan a date with a stranger without breaking a sweat. Overall it has proven a powerful force for good; delivering significant benefits to the economy and to consumers in the form of greater choice, personalisation, and incredible convenience."

"As technology-especially computer, information, and Internet technology-permeates all aspects of our society, people who understand that technology need to be part of public-policy discussions. We need technologists who work in the public interest. We need public-interest technologists. Defining this term is difficult. One Ford Foundation blog post described public-interest technologists as "technology practitioners who focus on social justice, the common good, and/or the public interest." A group of academics in this field wrote that "public-interest technology refers to the study and application of technology expertise to advance the public interest/generate public benefits/promote the public good.""

Guard is a site that uses AI to read epically long privacy policies and then highlight any aspects of them that might be problematic.

"Information Exposure for Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach."

Facial recognition technology stealing our feelings

Use your smartphone as a mobile lab

BotSentinel to help diminish the effectiveness of trollbot accounts that infest Twitter.

"Project Fugu

Ethical brand ratings

"It's time you put your data to work for you, not them. Mozilla Rally gives you the power to donate your data to research studies that are designed to build new resources, tools, and potentially even policies that empower people just like you to build a better internet and fight back against exploitative tech."

"Croquet eliminates dedicated servers and server-side code from online multiuser apps. Instead, users connect through our worldwide network of public reflectors. Every input is mirrored by the reflector to a shared virtual computer that runs bit-identical across every client, so everyone stays perfectly in sync"

Social media apps, designed to be addictive, are playing an increasingly large role in the lives of young people (or 'Gen Z').

"Arweave enables you to store documents and applications forever."

Blogging platform which uses the blockchain to distribute posts

"The BBC's R&D team has built experimental systems that pull in data from Netflix and Spotify. The goal? More personalisation "