What
is InternetLab?

InternetLab is an independent think tank focused on human rights and digital technologies. It is based in São Paulo, Brazil, and since 2014 works as a non-profit organization. As a human rights organization, we believe that the digital environment must be vibrant, creative, inclusive, protective to fundamental rights, an enabler to the quality of the democratic public sphere, and a promoter of social justice – which implies that the decisions of state and private agents are always under critical analysis. We deliver sophisticated, evidence-based, and impact-oriented social and legal research, as well as analysis to identify and clarify critical issues, thereby helping to build the intellectual and evidential foundation for public awareness, action, and policymaking.

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OURBACKGROUNDISSUES

In Brazil, the “digital” is already embedded in everyday life. In a highly-connected continent with deep inequalities, a heavy legacy of censorship and authoritarianism, and large social, racial and gender divides, internet and other information technologies now penetrate our most pressing current political, democratic, social, economical and environmental challenges. Promoting human rights in technology and working towards inclusive and democratic policies can no longer be seen as “just a technological issue”.

Institutional funding

Google
Ford Foundation
Luminate
Open Society Foundation

Current partnerships and project support

Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Información (CELE) - Universidade de Palermo
Columbia University
Derechos Digitales
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo
Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Apoio Comunitário - IBEAC
International Development Research Center
IT for Change
Meta
National Endowment for Democracy
Novelo Data
Rede Conhecimento Social
Redes Cordiais
Revista Azmina
Universidade Federal da Bahia
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
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Networks and coalitions

AL SUR
Aliança por Algoritmos Inclusivos - AI+
Coalizão Direitos na Rede
Creative Commons
Network of Centers
Grupo de Estudos em Proteção de Dados e Eleições
Just Net Coalition

Former partners

AWO Agency
CIEB
Cyrilla
Fundo Indela
Global Partners Digital
Goethe Institute
IDEC
Instituto Alana
Kenan Institute for Ethics - Duke University
Media Democracy Fund
Mozilla Foundation
new venture fund
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Privacy Internacional
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