Radical Servers

Anti-capitalist, anti-hierarchy, autonomous, feminist, or radical server projects, revolutionary collectives which provide free or mutual aid services to radical and grassroots activists.

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World Wide

Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects. This website is for Anyone and Everyone who wants to share their hackerspace stories and questions with the global hackerspaces community.

indymedia.org is a decentralized global network of media activists.

News feeds

Tachanka is the idea of providing technical services to emancipatory projects and groups of political change. It is also the groups of people behind this idea. There are many overlapping collectives that help to maintain the projects, but Tachanka operates within many shared principles, forming a supportive network to enable shared aims. The collectives are international, seeking to enhance global solidarity. The foremost guiding principles of the Tachanka project are the Hallmarks of People’s Global Action and the Debian Social Contract.

Mailing lists

Virtual servers

DNS caching

caching Drupal farms

English / French / Portuguese language

Take Back The Tech!

Take Back The Tech! is a global campaign that connects the issue of violence against women and information and communications technology (ICT). It aims to raise awareness on the way violence against women is occurring on ICT platforms such as the Internet and mobile phones, and to call for people to use ICT in activism to end violence against women. It was initiated by the Association for Progressive Communications (apc.org), Women’s Networking Support Programme, in 2006. Since then, the campaign has been taken up and organised by individuals, collectives and non-governmental organizations in at least 24 countries. More at Wikipedia

Telecentre

Telecentre is a widely adopted concept to provide free access to the internet and other services at puplic spaces with computers and other digital technologies that enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others while they develop essential digital skills. Guidebook for Managing Telecentre Networks

South America

Codigosur

Codigosur is a collective of activists from different social movements in Latin America for collaboration and the development of communication tools, culture and free technology

Hosting

Email

Lists

Mumble

Streaming

TLS

Etherpad

DNS and more

Colnodo

Colnodo is a Colombian non-profit organization that aims to facilitate communication and the exchange of information, experience, and expertise between Colombian organizations through low-cost electronic networks. Article on cyberstewards.org

Gleducar

Gleducar is a free educational project emerged in Argentina in 2002. It is also an important NGO (Civil Association) from Argentina in the field of education and technology. It is an independent community composed of teachers, students and education activists linked by a common interest in collective work, cooperative knowledge building and free distribution of knowledge. The project works around different themes, such as Open Education, Open Access, Free Knowledge, Popular Education, peer education, collaborative learning and Free Technologies. They promote the use of Free Software in schools as a pedagogical and technical system, with the objective of changing the paradigm of production, construction and dissemination of educational content. Wikipedia

free and open digital education

O grupo de Estudos GuardaChuva.org é espaço interdisciplinar nascido em meados de 2005 com o objetivo promover pesquisas sobre a sociedade da informação, o ciberespaço e sobre tecnologias. Com esse objetivo o grupo de estudos tem inserção no meio técnico-científico-informacional utilizando seus conhecimentos para hospedar páginas, wikis, catalogação de bibliotecas e projetos independentes e autônomo de diferentes grupos ciber-ativistas.

Saravá

O Saravá é um coletivo multidisciplinar que tem como objetivo otimizar o uso de tecnologias por grupos sociais, focando sempre no aspecto humano da relação homem-máquina. Nossos estudos incluem o compartilhamento de uma mesma estrutura física entre pequenos grupos que possuem finalidades diversas, unindo e economizando recursos tecnológicos.

Europe

Actiu.info is a technical network created to the social movements can have resources connected to internet public network, independent of market and establishment, in a secure and confidential way. We develop and maintain Actiu.info as a computing resources center and to promote technological self-management and freedom.

Our focus is on concept of “technological freedom” as the technical and formal conditions that concern individuals and collectives, meaning user’s ability to have a reasonable and comprehensive control over his/her/their acting freedom, his/her/their tools, data, privacy and communication with others.

Actiu.info provides:

E-mail accounts

Mailing lists (Mailman)

Web hosting; weblogs, wikis, forums

Private channels for assemblies/meetings/writing (Gobby)

Remote desktops, shared folders

Physical server colocation, Virtual machine hosting, virtual server (container) hosting

English, spanish, sometimes french

Some random descriptions of aktivix.org from the aktivix description generator:

Aktivix is a donation-funded herd of sweaty techies who desire to enable computer-users to disrupt capitalism in a fluffily non-hierarchical manner.

Aktivix is a donation-funded co-operative of fluffy hacktivists who wish to empower collectives to challenge authority in an entirely sustainable manner.

Aktivix is a consensus-based network of tired activists who wish to facilitate community-groups to communicate in a open and non-hierarchical manner.

Aktivix provides:

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Blogs

Dropbox-alternative (beta)

English, Spanish, German

autistici.org and inventati.org offers services to no commercial, no racist, no nazi, no fascist, no party, no organization with his own structure (who have much money..), no sessis. we have radical organization like anarchist black cross or italian social forum.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Website hosting

XMPP instant message

instant message Anonymous remailer

Web ananomyzer

Keyserver

Usenet news server

Italian language

boum.org is a autonomous revolutionary tech collective.

Email accounts

French language

CryptiX

CryptiX is a web collective with focus on supporting social and cultural projects, secure encrypted communication, and non-commercial spaces. Discriminating content is antithetic to us.

Domain hosting

Email

Mailing Lists

Webspace

XMPP

cybrigade / espiv.net

cybrigade is an autonomous collective with main point of report, social fights and how these are expressed in cyberspace. cybrigade is managing espiv.net’s services

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Blogs

Greek / English language

Disroot

Disroot is a project and non-profit foundation based in Amsterdam. It is maintained by volunteers and depends on the support of its community. Disroot is a collection of tools to communicate, share, and organize that are open, decentralized, federated, and respectful towards freedom and privacy.

Currently the following services are provided:

Email (2GB quota; RainLoop webmail, IMAP )

) File hosting (4GB NextCloud, Lufi)

Social networking (Diaspora)

Forum (Discourse)

Messaging ( XMPP )

) Pad (Etherpad)

Pastebin (PrivateBin)

Search engine (Searx)

Polls (Framadate)

Project management (Taiga)

Spreedsheet (EtherCalc)

Framasoft

Framasoft is a french non-profit organization and network of non-formal education, originating from the educational world and initially dedicated to free and open source software.

Framasoft want to provide alternative services to popular but proprietary services that are centralized and tracking users’ data on the Internet. Framasoft is now involved in a long-distance huge project called : Dégooglisons Internet (let’s Ungooglize Internet).

No ads, no trackers, 100% free softwares.

So far, the following services are provided:

Etherpad ≻ Framapad

Ethercalc ≻ Framacalc

Doodle-like ≻ Framadate

Trello-like ≻ Framaboard

Mindmapping ≻ Framindmap

Simple Drawing ≻ Framavectoriel

Search ≻ Framabee (searx)

Social network ≻ Framasphère (Diaspora*)

Chat (slack-like) ≻ Framateam

Decision ≻ Framavox (Loomio)

Pocket-like ≻ Framabag (Wallabag)

Google Reader like ≻ Framanews

Google Maps like ≻ Framacarte (umap+OSM)

WeTransfer like ≻ Framadrop

Pastebin like ≻ Framabin

img.ur like ≻ Framapic

bit-ly like ≻ Framalink

Google drive or Dropbox like ≻ Framadrive

Github like ≻ Framagit (Gitlab)

Alternatives to Change/Avaaz, Google Calendar, Google groups, Blogger, Wix, etc. are planned.

See this page to see all services and access them (home pages in french but most of the services are available in multiple languages)

Freifunk

Freifunk is a free, public, freely accessible, non-commercial, uncensored, decentrally organized mesh network in germany for free communication in digital networks owned by the community. join

GreenNet

GreeNet is a not-for-profit collective established 1985, providing internet services, web design and hosting to supporters of peace, the environment and human rights.

Hosting

Email

Broadband

Web development

Guifi

Guifi.net is a free, open and neutral, mostly wireless telecommunications community network" around Catalonia and Valencia in Spain. The nodes of the network are contributed by individuals, companies and administrations that freely connect to an open network of telecommunications and extend the network wherever the infrastructure and content might not otherwise be accessible. Wikipedia

immerda.ch is an autonomous collective providing mail, lists and webspace for their friends. They support progressive and emancipatory groups and inviduals to change the world. The services are provided to the friends of immerda and their friends, which makes it an invite only project.

So far, the following services are provided:

Email accounts / webmail

Mailing lists (mailman, schleuder)

Βlogs

Web hosting (static, php, ruby) in a secure environment

Wikis and discussion forum

Git repositories

German language, English and French and a little Spanish supported

indivia.net a self-managed virtual place hosting projects involved in the sharing of knowledge

Email accounts / webmail

Mailing lists (mailman,schleuder)

Web hosting

Audio streaming

irc chat

temporary email alias

Italian language, a little of English and French and Spanish supported

Isole Nella Rete Project

ecn.org is a place that offers visibility, relations and a chance of rejoice to those who have been fragmented and dispersed by the deep changes occurred in our society – those who are not aligned with the ‘unique thought’, not yet resigned to marginality – those who still can wish to build a REAL movement able to change the current ‘state of things’.

Email accounts for italian social centers and political collectives

Mailing lists

Websites

Movement search engine

Italian language

nadir.org represents politics by undogmatic leftists in the internet, including electronic services such as mail-providing and web-hosting.

Email accounts

Website hosting

German language

www.nodo50.net provides virtual space for social movements and the political action on the internet. Madrid.

Website hosting

Spanish language

no-log.org (closed to new subscribers)

no-log.org offers an internet access and an email account to everyone who asks for. Since its beginning in 2002 when the first french laws on monitoring the communications were passed, No-log has a minimum (yet legal) log policy, and tries to inform the users about the surveillance and privacy.

Email accounts (pops, imaps, smtp/tls, webmail)

Dial-up accounts (56K modems, local connection)

French language, English supported

Pangea is a private, independent and non-profit organization in Barcelona, created in 1993, to promote the Internet and information and communication technologies (ICT) for the benefit of organizations, movements and people working for social justice, women’s rights, sustainable development and cultural diversity at local and international levels.

Hosting

Email

www.sindominio.net intends to immerse itself in that multiverse which exists and organises itself within the web, in order to contribute to this space which embraces cooperation and communication as well as conflicts and struggles.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Spanish language

snopyta.org provides all kind of services:

Email account

XMPP

Privatebin

Gitea

Searx

Etherpad

Mastodon

Mumble

TinyTinyRSS

Polls

Invidious

Nitter

Bibliogram

so36.net provides digi-political infrastructure and

Email accounts

Webspace

DNS

Silc

Collaboration

squat.net provides tech services to the squat movement.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Website hosting

Support in: English, Italiano, Deutsch, Nederlands, Espanol, Polski, Norsk

systemausfall.org provides technical infrastructure for activists and collectives for their political work.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

XMPP

Hosting

Blogs

Wikis

File hosting

and more

Support in: German

systemli.org is a non-commercial provider of privacy friendly communication. Without surveilliance.

Email accounts

XMPP

Hosting (blogs, wikis, forums)

Etherpad

Mumble

Encrypted pastes and polls

Support in German and English

Syster Server

Syster Server offers services to feminist, queer and antipatriarchal groups and collectives. The syster server is run by women, using free software only. It acts as a place to learn system administration skills, host services and inspire others to do the same.

Hosting

Git

TLS

ask :)

shelter.is Autonomous tech collective that provides secure and privacy friendly infrastructure that are run with solidarity in mind rather than motivated by profit. Hosted in a friendly data center and network where only a few trusted people have have physical access to.

VPS

Wordpress hosting (with SSL by default)

by default) Mail accounts

VPN

Support in English

North America

Espora.org es un área colectiva orientada a promover modos autónomos de generar, distribuir y mantener infraestructuras para desarrollar proyectos técnicos y sociales. Planteamos un servidor autónomo porque decidimos relacionarnos de igual a igual, decidimos evitar usar la tecnología como simples clientes-consumidores; decidimos tomar el control de nuestras vidas y hacernos responsables de lo que hacemos y decimos también en la Red en lugar de conformarnos con lo que nos dan ya hecho; decidimos construir autonomía para informarnos, comunicarnos y apoyarnos mutuamente a través de la Red.

Email accounts

Hosting

Mexico City

Spanish

The mission at hackbloc.org is to research, create and disseminate information, tools, and tactics that empower people to use technology in a way that is liberating. We support and strengthen our local communities through education and action. We strive to learn from each other and focus our skills toward creative goals, to explore and research positive hacktivism, and to defend a free internet and free society!

Email accounts

Mailing lists

XMPP

Zines

Security trainings

Koumbit is a not-for-profit organisation founded in Montreal in 2004, and a proud supporter of community groups, organisations, and activists, both locally and internationally. Our technological choices are adapted to the needs of these groups, and built entirely using free and open source software.

Koumbit’s Solidarity Hosting Program offers free basic hosting services (either website or mailing list) to organisations promoting social justice in Québec and abroad. Each year Koumbit offers a few hosting plans to groups in need.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Website hosting

riseup.net is a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications. It is a small anarchist tech collective centered in Seattle.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

VPN

Chat

Etherpad

resist.ca is an anarchist tech collective in Vancouver B.C.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Website hosting

Vancouver area activist calendar

Activist directories

News feeds

tao.ca is an anarchist tech collective in Toronto, Canada.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Website hosting

In memoriam

These projects are no longer active.

entodaspartes es una zona temporalmente autónoma, al mismo tiempo es una herramienta para crear, difundir, distribuir y mantener estructuras sociales basadas en la libertad y el apoyo mutuo. entodaspartes is a temporary autonomous zone, and at the same time a tool to create, spread, distribute and mantain social structures based on freedom and mutual aid

flag.blackened.net has been providing free web hosting for the anarchist left since 1997. flag also provides email and mail lists for the anarchist community. Flag hosts over 50 anarchist sites.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Hosting

mutualaid.org is an anarchist tech collective centered in New York, Moscow, and L.A.

Email accounts

Mailing lists

Website hosting

English and Russian language

Taharar! (liberate yourself! in Arabic) is an autonomous project that aims to empower individuals, collectives, and groups working on issues of social justice in West Asia and North Africa by providing them with alternative communication and technical services, information, resources, and support. Taharar!’s vision is to combat the digital censorship prevalent in West Asia and North Africa by providing an accessible pool of resources in local languages (including Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Kurdish, etc.) that enable people to create democratic alternatives by controlling their own secure means of communications through the use and proliferation of free, open source software and technologies.

artikel-140.nl is a young autonomous tech collective and stands its ground for privacy and security.