NGI Zero is a idea-driven coalition of not-for-profit organisations from across Europe. It was set up to provide the Next Generation Internet initiative with an agile, effective and low-threshold funding mechanism. With funding from the European Commission, NGI0 provides grants to individual researchers and developers as well as small teams to work on important new ideas and technologies that contribute to the establishment of the Next Generation Internet.
Within the Next Generation Internet initiative, NGI Zero coordinates several NGI Research and Innovation Actions. Notably, NGI Zero Review, NGI Zero Entrust , NGI Zero Core and NGI Zero Commons Fund.
In order to be effective at internet scale, the results of these efforts are made available as free/libre/open source software. A significant amount of effort is spent to live up to high standards in terms of security, privacy, accessibility, open source licensing, documentation, etc.
Partners
NGI Zero currently consists of:
- APELL – (Association Professionnelle Européenne du Logiciel Libre) – Europe’s
Open Source Business Association - Association for Progressive Communications – A global network and organisation that strives towards easy and affordable access to a free and open internet to improve the lives of people and create a more just world
- Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology – The second-
largest technical university in the Czech Republic - Center for the Cultivation of Technology – A charitable non-profit host organization for international Free Software projects
- Commons Caretakers – A not-for-profit service provider for the development of Commons
- Free Silicon Foundation – (FSi) promotes Free and Open Source (FOS) in the context
of silicon integrated circuits - Free Software Foundation Europe – Association charity that aims to empower users to control technology
- HAN University of Applied Sciences – Dept. Inclusive Design & Engineering – one of
the core competence building centres of accessibility in the Netherlands - NixOS Foundation – Foundation supporting development and use of purely functional configuration management tools, in particular NixOS and related projects
- NLnet Foundation (NL) – Grantmaking public benefit organisation founded by pioneers of the early European internet
- OpenForum Europe (OFE) – A European open source software and open standard
not-for-profit think tank - OW2 is an independent, global, open-source software community that fosters open
source projects and actually delivers software - Petites Singularités – Non profit organisation working with free sofware and focusing on collective practices
- Radically Open Security – Not-for-profit open source security company
- Internet Society Switzerland – (ISOC.ch) is a recognized Chapter of the global
Internet Society - Tolerant Networks – A Trinity College Dublin campus company focused on robust
interoperable communications
NGI Zero Coordinator: Michiel Leenaars <ngizero-coordinator@nlnet.nl>
Website: NGI Zero
ActivityPub: mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero