Digital Justice
We design and build OpenSource solutions so that everyone can access, understand, and shape technology.
// OpenSource Movement
Since 2005, RISEUP International has advanced Human Rights by increasing access to education, technology and the arts. Our grassroots programs are initiated, and lead by the communities that we’ve served in over thirty countries.
Transparency
Open source enables public scrutiny, faster innovation, and bias mitigation in technology development.
Community
Our programs are initiated and led by the communities we serve across thirty countries.
Empowerment
We create pathways for people to become creators of technology, not just consumers.
// The Issue
Right now, a few big companies build Tech & AI in secret “black boxes.” Many barriers exist for digital justice.
Hidden Bias
Algorithms can favor some groups over others without anyone noticing.
No Access
Not everyone has the ability to freely communicate and learn.
Lack of Control
People don’t know how their data is gathered, used, sold—and can’t fix it.
Widening Gaps
Pay-to-play system benefits only those with money, leaving marginalized groups behind.
Proprietary = Corporate Control
Closed-code programs put developers in power over users, treating them as consumers not creators.
Outcome
Data breaches, identity theft, biased decisions—and whole communities left powerless.
// Our Solution
Digital Justice through four foundational pillars that transform technology from a tool of control to one of liberation.
Open
Provides spaces through which people can investigate community problems, generate solutions, create media and tech, organize together.
Why It Matters
Open source is essential for trustworthy AI, enabling faster innovation, bias mitigation, and public scrutiny. Anyone can inspect and improve it, mistakes get fixed faster and trust grows.
Access
Integrates media and tech into education in order to transform teaching and learning, to value multiple learning styles.
Why It Matters
Digital justice ensures that all members of our community have equal access to media and technology, as producers as well as consumers. Digital justice values all different languages, dialects and forms of communication.
Local Power
Digital justice advances community-based economic development by expanding technology access for small businesses, independent artists and other entrepreneurs.
Why It Matters
Putting the power back in the hands of people without needing to rely on big corporations. Advances our ability to tell our own stories, as individuals and as communities. It enhances data protection and privacy.
Digital Skills
Teach practical tech and internet skills from basics to in-demand career paths.
Why It Matters
Empowers people to use, understand, and even build new digital tools for jobs and daily life. Locally run AI become hubs for creation vs consumption and eliminate waste. It’s better for the planet.
// Our Programs
“Resistance by Design” – We design and build OpenSource solutions so that everyone can access, understand, and shape technology.
Pathways to Tech Careers
Our Workforce Development program provides in-demand training for tech careers like AI Ethics & Development, Cyber Security, and Programming.
Empowering women from marginalized communities
Open Tools for Community Freedom
We design and develop open-source software applications dedicated to fostering decentralized community collaboration.
Built for and with the communities it serves
Ethical AI for Good
Locally Run with the focus on private individually licensed models, adaptive, user controlled, total solutions.
Schools, NGO’s, and individuals run their own AI ecosystem
Global Initiatives
Diplomatic Envoys with the UN, State Department, and other governments and NGO’s.
Building inclusive systems for education and opportunity
Empowering Non-Profits
We share our two decades of experience in strategic planning, grant writing, and building sustainable non-profit programs.
Custom consulting for social impact organizations
Tech Upcycling
We bring outdated technology back to life and put it into the hands of those who need it most.
Linux for Digital Freedom workshops
// Support The Movement
Your contribution helps us continue our work for digital justice and open technology access worldwide.
One-Time Donation
Make a single contribution to support our ongoing programs and initiatives.
// Join the Movement
Real change happens when we collaborate. We need tech professionals, mentors, volunteers, and creators to join our mission for digital freedom.
Developers
Contribute to OpenSource projects that make a real difference in communities worldwide.
Ready to make a difference?
// Our Familia
A global network of activists, technologists, and change-makers working together for digital justice.
