Actipedia is an open-access, user-generated database of creative activism. It’s a place to share, read about, and comment upon experiences and examples of how activists and artists are using creative tactics and strategies to challenge power and offer visions of a better society.

CrisisCamp began as an idea for an event to bring together people who were interested in leveraging technology and telecommunications systems to assist communities in times of crisis. In June 2009 the first CrisisCamp was held in Washington DC as an open forum for practitioners, first responders, humanitarian aid workers, technologies, academia and the private sector to come to together to explore opportunities to enhance the capabilities of citizens, communities and crisis response organizations capability and capacity to response to, recover from, mitigate against and prepare for crises.

Brazil-based, open-source crowdfunding platform

Civic crowdfunding and crowdresourcing platform for community projects, with a focus on sustainability projects mainly in New York and Miami.

Civic crowdfunding platform for government agencies to raise money for public projects.

Civic crowdfunding platform based in Kansas City, MO.

UK-based crowdfunding platform for public space projects.

The Freecycle Network is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by local volunteers.

Skype is a freemium voice-over-IP service and instant messaging client, developed by the Microsoft Skype Division. Is a hybrid peer-to-peer and client–server system. It makes use of background processing on computers running Skype software, and this is reflected in Skype's original proposed name of Sky Peer-to-Peer.

Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system, with Unity as its default desktop environment (formerly GNOME). It is based on free software and named after the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu (literally, "human-ness"), which often is translated as "humanity towards others" or "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".