The internet is the world’s most popular computer network. It began as an academic research project in 1969, and became a global commercial network in the 1990s. Today it is used by more than 2 billion people around the world. Today it is hard to fathom a world without the Internet. The Internet provides instant access to information. Search engines make this information easy to attain. Besides gaining knowledge, internet users have an endless supply of entertainment. The internet makes it possible to do banking and shopping from the comfort of your own home. Thanks to the internet, many people are able to work remotely from anywhere in the world. However raising issues of privacy, surveillance and security can be alarming. We made a collection of great organizations that dedicate their work from a safer online environment to universally accessible libraries of literature or art.
Kurzgesagt
Kurzgesagt – German for „In a nutshell“ is a Munich-based YouTube channel and design studio with a unique design, color, and storytelling perspective. We engage in information design projects of all kinds but are best known for our distinctive animation videos. We want our work to raise awareness for science, space, technology, biology, history, and philosophy. Our goal is to inspire people to learn – and we believe humor and an excellent story to tell are just as important as straight facts.
SWGfL
SWGfL is a not-for-profit charity ensuring everyone can benefit from technology free from harm. Forming 1/3 of the UK Safer Internet Centre, our experts advise schools, public bodies, and industry on appropriate actions to take in regards to safeguarding and advancing positive online safety policies. SWGfL has been at the forefront of online safety for the past two decades, delivering engaging presentations and training to a wide variety of audiences nationally and internationally. Our work has brought online safety to the forefront of public attention, ensuring everyone can develop their understanding of what online safety truly means in an ever-changing world.
Internet Watch Foundation
Protecting children is at the heart of everything we do. For over 25 years, since the early days of the internet, our job has been to help child victims of sexual abuse by hunting down and removing any online record of the abuse.
World Wide Web Foundation
We use original research, advocacy, and public action to shape the policies and products we need for the web we want. Decisions made by governments and businesses have far-reaching effects on who can access the web and use it to improve their lives. Influencing relevant policies, rules, and regulations for the better brings us closer to a world where everyone has affordable, meaningful access to a web that improves their lives and where their rights are protected.
Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every published book.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
— Noam Chomsky
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress) and the fourth largest globally. It is a private, non-governmental, independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with private and public financing.
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MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
Open Knowledge Maps
Our goal is to revolutionize the discovery of scientific knowledge. We are building a visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike. We are a charitable non-profit organization, and we believe that a better way to explore and discover scientific knowledge will benefit us all.
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WikiArt
Welcome to WikiArt.org, the online home for visual arts from all around the world. Our primary goal is to make the world’s art accessible to anyone and anywhere. WikiArt already features some 250.000 artworks by 3.000 artists, localized in eight languages. These artworks are in museums, universities, town halls, and other civic buildings of more than 100 countries. Most of this art is not in public view. With your active involvement, we plan to cover the entire art history of the Earth, from cave artworks to modern private collections. We also provide you with tools for translation in as many languages as needed.