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 (tba.): Letting Machines learn–Technologies for our futures.
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.
How transparent and open are Germany’s cities?
Use secure channels on the Internet to counter surveillance.
This app facilitates the operation of call-outs for emergency doctors.
A secure, decentralised text-cache for Briar, the encrypted messenger-app.
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.
A graphical survey tool that challenges your own assumptions.
Understand and make use of regional statistics.
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.
Issue tracking and comments for open educational resources
An open source library for the Open ISO Standard OpenDocument.
A platform for elections and open data.
Ein Trainingsspiel zur Behandlung von Schielen, das gemeinsam mit Betroffenen entwickelt wird
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A digital and participatory search for nuclear waste disposal.
Free schematic maps of public transport networks.
A new way of implementing council information systems.
Social media benchmarking and analysis in the non-commercial sector.
An open source ticket shop for everyone.
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.
Archiving webpages on your own computer, preserving knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
Intergalactic skill & idea sharing community
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.
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.
