Novel hardware design tools and a community alternative to Youtube

The latest funding call also finances open source projects develop visual document search for the popular LibreOffice online, federated social media solutions (including a solution for the most popular content management system on the planet, Wordpress. There is an entire parallel world to discover that ranges from videoconferencing applications, collaborative editors, alternative search engines, social networks, reproducible software tooling, vpn technologies, and secure messaging - all the way up to open hardware laptops, smartphones and dumbphones, fully transparent computer chips, new internet routing mechanisms, alternative web browsers, operating systems and even entire mobile networks and satellites. NGI Zero Discovery is a grant programme that funds R&D that allows people, objects, content, data, applications and services to be found online - by improving search, discovery and discoverability through free and open source tools (like Searx, Yacy and and open standards like ActivityPub, microformats and linked data. From the internet protocols that run underneath every packet sent, the operating system and browser that we run our applications on, the chips we use in every device, to even the design and manufacturing of silicon - projects within NGI Zero PET are breaking down barriers and working towards a technology commons. NGI Zero is made possible with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825310.