About
The D//F (Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund) is a multi-funder initiative by Ford Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures and Open Collective sustaining a platform for researchers and practitioners to better understand how open digital Infrastructure is built and deployed.
We’re creating a body of research and implementation insights that advance our goal to ensure a public commons of technology, sustainably developed and maintained, for the benefit of everyone.
Projects RfP#4
Find the awarded initiatives of the Cohort #4 here:
Browser Funding
Asserting Democratic Control over the Browser/Search Funding System
Code Classification
Sociotechnical Repercussions of FOSS Engineering Processes and Code Classification
DPI Privacy
Privacy Risks of Digital Public Infrastructure in India
FOSS Security & Infrastructure Resilience
Understanding Lessons for OSS Security from Historical Trade Security-Efforts
ISP OSS
Enhancing sustainability for Internet Service Providers connecting those most in need
OSM CoCreation
Impacts of Corporate Editing on Collective Intelligence in OpenStreetMap
OSS Compliance
Navigating Software Liability of Public Digital Infrastructure
OSS Research-Software
Incentivizing Investment in and Adoption of Open Infrastructure for Research through Community Health Assessments
Tripartite Commons Governance
The next tripartite governance systems: governments, markets, and commons
Projects RfP#3
(What Comes) After FOSS?
Beyond Openness, Toward the Common?
The role of open technologies in environmental research
Building Thriving African Open Source Software Communities by Translating Collective Intelligence Methods
Cutting through open washing
To what extent should open source AI systems be exempt from regulation?
results 👀
Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps
Analyzing Effective Governance and Infrastructure Gaps in Medium-to-Large Sized Servers for Enhanced Social Networking
results 👀
Infrastructure in Recession
Economic impacts of tech layoffs on FOSS communities
OSS Transition Calculator
A Calculated Approach to Transitioning from Founder Models to Community-Governed Ecosystems
Strengthening City Governments
Enhancing Security, Governance, and Public Service Delivery through Open Source Promotion and Vulnerability Mitigation.
Understanding the shift away from free and Open Domain Name Servers Resolvers
Unmaintained dependencies
Review Board 2024 RFP
Review Board 2023 RFP
Public Interest Technology Group