These are the builders of the Next Generation Internet

Meet the builders of the Next Generation Internet (NGI), the talents behind more than 600 open source, reliable and human-centric solutions that will make the Internet:

• Decentralised and trustworthy
• Secure and resilient
• Collective-based
• Inclusive

Who is behind the innovative solutions that will make the Internet a better place? Keep reading to discover the top NGI innovators featured in the Who’s NGI blog.

👉🏽 Nadim Kobeissi presents Verifpal, a new effort to make it easy to verify the security of Internet protocols.

👉🏽 Alyssa Ross tells us how to make sure whether our operating system is secure or not. Learn more about Spectrum!

👉🏽 A privacy-respecting meta-search engine to know for certain that your searches are not logged. Adam Tauber introduces SEARX.

👉🏽 Jaya Klara Brekke and CoBox. Building blocks for a peer-to-peer distributed cloud and secure backup system.

👉🏽 Alina Khayretdinova and the right to DECIDE: a path to user-friendly decentralised identity solutions. Discover more!

👉🏽 Aleksandar Jevremovic introduces a project to protect children online. Meet Casper!

👉🏽 Adrian Georgescu: making videoconference accessible to everyone thanks to NGI and open source code. Here is how.

👉🏽 Tangui Coulouarn’sD4S project is helping students adopt safe access to research through a VPN so secure it’s been called ‘Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility’.

👉🏽 Aaron MacSween explains the origins of CryptPad and the latest developments of this private-by-design collaboration tools.

👉🏽 Iñaki Eguia’s Explorers mission to the United States brought back a platform for the digital transformation of integral safety and security management models.

👉🏽 Delta Chat is an instant messenger application like WhatsApp, but without the tracking or central control. Meet Holger Krekel’s innovation!

👉🏽 Julian Sparber has created FRACTAL, flipping around instant messaging as we know it.

👉🏽 These two old uni friends have developed*Offen*, an open alternative to common web analytics tools.

👉🏽 Jacobo Elosua devotes his life to science with project AIUR. This is how scientific breakthroughs are made accessible to all.

👉🏽Innovator Tom Haegemans presents Solid- Shape. A solution to interconnect personal data across and within organisations without having to enter the same information repeatedly.

👉🏽 Experimenting with unusual applications of decentralised identifiers? Yes, Dr. Nikos Fotiou has made it!

👉🏽 Sam Hitz and Peter Müller are testing the architecture that underpins the Internet for secure routing using maths and tool-checked proofs. Explore it!

👉🏽 Hanna Schraffenberger and *IRMA made easy*:** a project about improving the usability, accessibility and overall user experience of the IRMA app.

👉🏽 How to simplify data exchanges and portability between end-users, utility and energy third-party companies? Jean-Baptiste Bernard has the answer.

👉🏽 Researcher Cristina Marquez got to work at MIT in the US on mobile applications thanks to NGI Explorers. Check out the results!

👉🏽 Žiga Drev createdFood Data Marketplace: an inclusive marketplace fostering new economic models for sustainable food supply chains.

👉🏽Meet a free operating system for Android smartphones and tablets, sustainable and reusable by other projects. Denis Carikli explains more.

👉🏽 This creative environment boosts the capacity for engineering problem-solving. Get to know how with Luka Mustafa and KORUZA.

👉🏽 The ‘Linux-Kernel regression tracking bot’: help ensure future versions of this crucial building block of modern IT work. Thorsten Leemhuis explains more.

👉🏽 Maarten Brinkerink identified ways to strengthen the trustworthiness and scope of PeerTube, an open source free and decentralised alternative video sharing platform.

👉🏽 From an idea in a napkin to an internationally recognised company shaping Europe’s Digital Future. Meet Irene Hernández and GATACA.

👉🏽 Sam Tuke created Lightmeter; a solution that helps monitor email servers to help fix message delivery problems.

👉🏽 Neuropil is an open source solution to ensure data quality, data transparency, and data sovereignty while reducing IT costs. Read the interview with Stephan Schwichtenberg.

👉🏽Nicolas Nicolaou was able to test his AM-NVE solution for distributed systems with technologies used for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Read more!

👉🏽 Julien Nioche is turning what was a simmering idea into an enterprise-grade solution for URL Frontier. All details here!

👉🏽 Ricochet Refresh preserves anonymity to safeguard journalists or patients’ personal data about their health, as Suelette Dreyfus explains.

👉🏽 Elen Eisendle is trying to collaborate with other people on open hardware projects. Get to know how!

If you want to browse and meet the NGI innovators in depth, check out the Who’s NGI blog at the NGI Portal.