Sponsors

The Open Technology Initiative formulates policy andregulatory reforms to support open architectures and opensource innovations and facilitates the development and implementation of open technologies and communications networks. OTI promotes affordable, universal, and ubiquitous communications networks through partnerships with communities, researchers, industry, and public interest groups and is committed to maximizing the potentials of innovative open technologies by studying their social and economic impacts – particularly for poor, rural, and other underserved constituencies. OTI provides in-depth, objective research, analysis, and findings for policy decision-makers and the general public.

The Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve its mission, OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI builds alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. OSI places a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.

CUWiN (the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network) is a world-renowned coalition of wireless developers and community volunteers committed to providing low-cost, do-it-yourself, community-controlled alternatives to contemporary broadband models.

The Acorn Active Media Foundation is an employee-run tech collective whose members are themselves activists; the projects we work on are chosen based on members' interest in working on them. Our commitment to our clients goes beyond typical business ethics -- we are personally committed to the work that employs us.

FunkFeuer is a free, experimental network in Vienna, Graz, in parts of Weinviertel (NÖ) and Bad Ischl. It is build and maintained by computer enthusiasts. This project is non commercial.

FunkFeuer is open for everybody interested and willing to contribute. One of the goals is to built a unregulated network which has the potential to bridge the digital valley between the social layers and deliver the infrastructure and the knowledge for it.

Tech Gate Vienna is Vienna's first Science and Technology Park. For several years Tech Gate Vienna has provided a common location for research facilities, technology orientated companies and supportive advisory services. Vienna's focus on
high-tech development is right here. Concentration on specific topics has ensured its effectiveness, and created an important requirement for developing synergies.

Dizzy Giant designs smart websites to help their clients build stand out and establish identities and collateral. They also design evocative graphics for film, television, and DVD. We make cool things with cool people.

The Media Democracy Fund supports organizations advocating for the public's rights in the digital age.

The Fund works with foundations and donors to award grants that promote a diversity of viewpoints and an open and accessible Internet. The rules governing digital communications are being made now, and we want to ensure they work for everyone.

The Fund awards more than $1 million a year and has supported victories that will foster freedom of expression and access to information and ideas.