Projects
These are all the projects of the Prototype Fund.
Round 1: no specific focus
Round 2: Tools for an empowered civil society
Round 3: Diversity – Open Source for all!
Round 4: Power to the User!
Round 5: Letting Machines learn–Technologies for our futures.
Round 6: Commit – update system.
Using measurement data to answer your own questions on environmental issues: With the “Data Analyst” mode in openSenseMap, each individual will be able to easily carry out analyses, compare data and visualize the results directly in the browser.
Noize is a framework that enables users to train a personalized noise filter based on machine learning. Thus, the project contributes to self-determined hearing as healthcare.
This “Wahl-o-Mat” will evaluate stances of political parties and allow citizens to comment on them.
Automated clustering of verified conflict incident data ( f.i. digital media) in support of archiving of Human Rights violations in conflict zones.
Algoneer is a toolkit for the systematic and collaborative analysis of AI systems. The software will offer plugin-based methods for white- & blackbox testing.
With arso we aim to build a Peer-to-Peer-library for “bottom-up archives”, so that free content and their context and history stay available online, permanently and decentralised.
OpenWrt is an integrated Linux distribution that supports more than 1000 devices (routers) – and is being implemented by projects like freifunk. The developers so far only have access to a partition of this devices, to test system changes.Thus, i´m building an “automated hardware testsystem”, in accordance with existing Software, and meant subsequently to be integrated in the project.
How transparent and open are Germany’s cities?
Use secure channels on the Internet to counter surveillance.
Blockparty is a Desktop-appliance that enables users to effortlessly set up their own decentral and encrypted social networks and to invite others.
This app facilitates the operation of call-outs for emergency doctors.
A secure, decentralised text-cache for Briar, the encrypted messenger-app.
Crowdmoderated pro and contra participation forum for democratic opinion-making
Laptop hard drives can be encrypted to protect data against physical theft. Unlike proprietary solutions (where closing the device may suffice), Linux systems do not yet encrypt data in sleep mode. This project is writing an update for Linux’s encryption in order to allow free solutions to offer their users the same security standards.
Collaborative financial decisions for organizations and initiatives.
Making source code editing accessible for all.
Commons Booking is a booking system for load carrying bicycles that allows easy borrowing at multiple locations. The WordPress plugin allows for integration with many web pages and simplifies the sharing of common goods of all kinds, such as tools or books.
How can we support refugees when arriving in their neighborhoods?
Making communication between activists more secure.
Crossfoam is a client-side browser extension, enabling users to identify “filter bubbles” and contextualize content within those.
Cypherlock is an meta-encryption application for hard disks that is aimed especially at investigative journalists.
A graphical survey tool that challenges your own assumptions.
P2P systems save storage and computing capacity, bandwidth and power, while enabling users to control their data. However, such systems require independent management of passwords and keys, which can be an obstacle for technically inexperienced users. This is where Dark Crystal’s new protocol and functionalities come in.
Understand and make use of regional statistics.
Datenklaus empowers students to handle data responsibly. The app provides playful access to digital tracks and their interpretability by third parties.
DHCP Client Anonymity Profile wants to implement a standard ensuring more anonymity for devices in a local network. This provides more privacy, especially in public.
Dingsda is a framework to inventory and lend out means of production, tools and other goods.
Diversity Tickets makes Tech Conferences more divers.
Issue tracking and comments for open educational resources
An open source library for the Open ISO Standard OpenDocument.
Tracking your own cycle – with data protection and without a commercial business model
With the Account-Admin-Surface with Self-Service users will be enabled to setup+administer their E-Mails plain and simple, to encrypt their mailbox or allocate new passphrases. The aim is to open E-Mail-hosting for society as a whole.
A platform for elections and open data.
Emergency warning systems (e.g. for natural disasters) are often based on mobile communication and usually use Cell Broadcast SMS as transport technology. For OS mobile communication, only rudimentary SMSBC support exists so far – this needs to be implemented to be able to connect OSMOCOM projects to emergency warning systems.
The effectiveness of policy tools designed to meet climate targets has so far only been verifiable by a very small group of experts. Emission API provides users with low-threshold access to emission data for climate-relevant gases. This tool gives everyone the opportunity to develop a fact-based opinion on climate policies.
EnergyModels is a framework to model and analyze the operation of energy systems on our way to decarbonization.
How much money does your community get from the EU? Find out with “The locally funded Europe”.
a training game to treat strabismus, which is developed together with affected persons.
Eye Skills is an open source virtual reality that enables people with strabismus to activate their suppressed eye and learn to use both eyes in a coordinated way.
The hoax files collect false reports and fake news and thereby exposes recurring false reports.
Open-air events are places where enormous amounts of power are consumed – often from harmful fossil energy sources that cause damage to the climate. FestivalGrid is a modular framework for real-time evaluation of energy consumption using low-cost hardware elements and Open Source software.
A website that contains an interactive component in addition to graphics and explanatory texts explains how machine learning algorithms are trained, and how ML-assignments work in the context of Hate Speech.
Fireside is an in-browser application that makes it possible to perform online interviews in high quality. Video and audio sections can be directly recorded on a local device and used for television or cinema at a later time.
FixMyBerlin wants to help shape the development of the bicycle infrastructure in Berlin. By aggregating traffic data and by engaging citizens, the specific needs of cyclists are better taken into account for city planning and experts are better supported with information.
Follow the Grant shows which doctors and scientists have received money from companies.
Foodsharing is a non-profit initiative that takes action against food waste. The online platform and mobile app organizes volunteers and allows users to pass on their excess food.
frab is a program for conferences and meetings that simplifies the submission and planning of talks – both in their presentation and their organization.
FrameTrail allows users to extend and comment on videos with annotations to other web content. For example, videos from parliamentary debates can be supplemented with relevant documents.
Freigeist is a software-driven “digital prosthesis” that supports people who are in need of cognitive assistance in performing simple work tasks (e.g. assembly work or commissioning). In an interactive tutorial, the users of the system are guided through individual work steps.
Residents are not yet sufficiently integrated into sustainable urban development.
FutureCityProjects provides a project development platform that enables citizens to develop collective projects step by step, until they are ready for application or implementation.
GentriMap wants to make gentrification and urban development visible and comprehensible. With the integration and analysis of various data sets and visualizations, the rapid and complicated changes in the city are to be presented and can serve as a basis for both research and policy.
A collaborative tool for spatial data.
GeoHub is a geodata editor that allows users to use existing geodata to create new surfaces, lines or points on e.g. OpenStreetMap and to supplement them with metadata. This allows maps to be shared with others and to be quickly and easily enriched with additional information.
GAIPA provides small farmers in developing countries with important information on agriculture.
This web service generates vector maps from geodata collected from OpenStreetMap. This way designers can create maps more quickly, developers can employ them in their applications more easily, and creatives can harness more of their potential.
“Growing Futures” is a planning tool for the cultivation of vegetables that enables members of the SoLawi community and gardeners to reach out to a wider segment of society, expand their market and thereby protect nature, biodiversity and the climate.
Guidelight is a program automatically generating documents that can be used to query website operators for data protection information of data they might store about you.
An independent communication network with its own power supply via solar power.
GNU Taler is a free online payment system that protects the privacy of customers while making the income of traders available to accountants. This makes illegal activities such as tax evasion or trading of illegal goods more difficult.
An important goal when it comes to developing mail client applications on mobile devices is to increase energy efficiency by reducing network traffic. Currently, proprietary applications have a performance advantage in this regard. This project aims to find and implement the changes that need to be made in the open source client K-9 Mail to integrate the JMAP protocol and optimize its energy saving capabilities.
APIs provided by banks are often so complex that smaller projects can hardly use them. Testing is only possible with a lot of effort as well as accounts with various vendors and proprietary software. libspsd2 makes it easy for developers to develop and test free online banking applications.
Lightbeam is a privacy browser extension that helps users to visually map and understand privacy.
While a more efficient web will not stop climate change, it is a necessary contribution. Low Tech WordPress provides analysis and tools to make WP-based website projects more sustainable. It makes it possible to run pages on even the smallest solar-powered single-board computers and supports users with low-power hardware and weak networks.
The aim of the project is to make standard applications of artificial intelligence in the field of image manipulation comprehensible and tools and information accessible for this purpose.
Conservative, liberal or left-wing? Media Uncovered analyses the linguistic usage in media and uncovers hidden tendencies.
Luftdaten.info is an association of activists, coders, environmental activists and other citizens affected by fine dust pollution who aim to evaluate environmental data with simple sensor hardware from kits and to display this data through a pesonalized interface.
microG enables the use of Android apps without integration of Google Play services and thus contributes to the protection of privacy.
Mietenwatch (i.e. Rent Watch) evaluates publicly accessible data from real estate platforms to gain new insights in the housing situation. Users get access to a more detailed picture of rent developments.
This webapp will help tenants tackle excessive rent hikes. It consists of an information portal, a question and answer platform, as well as an interactive guide that helps tenants to start the rent reduction process immediately. Berlin will be the first location where the project will be implemented.
The project develops a machine learning-based translation application for LibreOffice. With this application, it is possible to have sentences, paragraphs or an entire document automatically translated from one language into another with a simple click.
License or kill : Music in times of the copyright directive! MliftW will provide a publicly accessible API that will give licensees reliable, unbureaucratic and secure access to licensing information for musical creations.
A routing engine for people with and without specific mobility limitations and needs. This team strives to support alternative inner-city logistics concepts and identify potential emission savings.
A digital and participatory search for nuclear waste disposal.
OnBaSca is a bandwidth scanner for the Tor anonymization service and its relays.
Free schematic maps of public transport networks.
A new way of implementing council information systems.
So far, the only way to send push notifications to mobile apps is to use either Google’s or Apple’s push services. This project wants to provide a data-saving open source alternative.
OPENLEGALDATA.IO is a platform that makes legal texts and case law searchable for people and machines and thus jurisdiction more accessible to all.
Paperless is an open solution for the consolidation of existing european e-invoice formats.
Photownica is a tool to search your pictures without cloud services. Private photos are indexed using artificial intelligence methods without having to leave the user’s device.
A platform for transcribing voice recordings from podcasts, web radios and other media products, etc.
The LEAP Project wants to provide a VPN for self hosting with Pluggable Transports.
Social media benchmarking and analysis in the non-commercial sector.
The aim of the project is to develop a lightweight firewall for QubesOS based on MirageOS. A firewall prohibits unauthorized access to network communication via filter rules.
PSE is designed to facilitate a low-threshold introduction to assessing and understanding the sustainability of electronic components, as human rights violations frequently occur at all stages of the supply chain for electronic products.
An open source ticket shop for everyone.
Reproducible builds secures the “supply chain” in software distributions from source code to binary code and helps developers, admins and users to be better equipped against “man in the middle” attacks.
Running servers yourself made easy – more self-owned infrastructure for everyone!
VPN Client is a cryptographically reliable and easy-to-use OpenVPN implementation based on the MirageOS kernel, which i. a. enables collaborative work from different locations via secure connection.
Schleuder is a tool for operating and managing encrypted mailing lists. Through improved usability, it can be used by a broader base of individuals and organizations.
A software for emergency rescue at distress at sea.
SecureDrop is an open source whistleblowing submission system that enables media organizations to securely receive files from anonymous sources and communicate with whistleblowers via a secure channel.
Archiving webpages on your own computer, preserving knowledge.
SensoriMotor develops open-source hardware and software for robotic drives and aims to stimulate the creativity of developers, researchers and hobbyists through cost-effective and modification-friendly components.
Sex education for all provides information about sex and sexuality on mobile phones in an easily understandable way.
Share the Crops connects people interested in the concept and implementation of solidarity agriculture.
Sign Dict will be a crowdsourced sign language dictionary. The platform invites users to upload and encode videos for signs in different languages. The site will be published under an open license.
Speakerinnen.org wants to increase the visibility of women at conferences, in talk shows and at public speaking events in general. Women can register, indicate their areas of expertise and provide references in the database to be found more easily by organizers.
ssb-photos is a decentralized peer-to-peer photo sharing and image processing application.
A platform to support the work of local people and initiatives.
StalkerBuster is an application that prepares the network traffic of mobile phones in such a way that it can be checked for stalkerware, and also allows a quick assessment of the situation.
The Stayalive project aims to use real-time measurements to show which classes of insects still exist, how their populations change over time and which protective measures have a direct influence on population numbers.
Staying Live wants to provide secure P2P video streaming for all browsers.
Syrian Archive is an online platform that provides eyewitness reports from Syria, verified and uniformly coded. This helps journalists, activists and international human rights organizations both find and use reliable visual evidence for their reporting.
system.luftdaten.info ist ein neues Vernetzungsprojekt zwischen den Bürgerwissenschaftler*innen, um Kommunikation und Interoperabilität mit Partnerprojekten innerhalb des Luftdaten.info-Kosmos zu optimieren.
Intergalactic skill & idea sharing community
The aim of Open Green Web is to accelerate the transition of the grid to green energy by providing information on which web services already operate on renewables.
Undo Ransomware is a cloud-based application that complements the existing Nextcloud Ransomware Recovery app with a machine learning approach. Content that has been encrypted during an attack should be recoverable more easily from previously saved versions.
universeOS is a web desktop that allows you to share, save and edit files and projects. The application allows anonymous and pseudonymized collaboration, research, publication and searching of complex information based on open source.
Machine learning as a rescue ring in the document flood.
VCAT is a tool set for open source investigations in human rights that makes use of computer vision and machine learning. The extension of VFrame consists of a search platform, a collaborative web-based annotation tool and 3D-modelled synthetic data sets for training purposes.
VFrame helps you to find and analyze videos with human rights violations.
Open tools for video recording.
A new data standard for urban development processes.
Voctomix 2 improves the software for live transmission of lectures for the independent video platform media.ccc.de.
VoiceGym provides voice training via app, especially for trans* people.
Your Voice is an interactive website that brings to life a range of new technologies and applications related to the human voice.
