Digital Justice Awards 2021 are open for nomination!

Is there a friend, an activist, a company, a (non-profit) organisation, a political party or a governmental agency that has done something outstanding for digital civil rights? Sign them up!

The Digital Justice Awards is a yearly award that is given to reputable instances and people who care about digital rights as much as you do.

This year, we have the following categories:

• Privacy
• Right to Repair
• Interoperability
• Cyber security
• Openness
• Software Autonomy
• Freedom of Installation
• Software Warranty
• Abandonware Continuity

Do any of the categories apply to a company or organisation you know? Do you know a politician that has fought hard for one of these rights? Nominate them here!

Privacy

Privacy is a human right that can something be difficult to keep on the internet. Digital Justice gives the Privacy Award to people and organisations who do something like the following:

• A company that fights hard to protect users' privacy on the internet beyond the product that they sell themselves;
• A company that helps expose schemes, companies or organisations that steal personal data from users;
• A politician that fought hard for their population's privacy;
• An activist that sued a company for their lack of privacy.

Right to Repair

Right to Repair has made some big steps in the last two years, and those steps couldn't have been made without a few wonderful people and organisations. Digital Justice gives the Right to Repair Award to people and organisations who do something like the following:

• A company that publishes schematics of their electronic products and make their products fully repairable;
• A company that makes their product so trivial to repair that even unskilled people can do it;
• A politician that actively fought for the right to repair in their region;
• An individual who had a great influence and convinced a large audience on the right to repair.

Interoperability

Interoperability is an old right of the past, but recent innovations pull the digital right back in the daylight. Digital Justice gives the Interoperability Award to people and organisations who do something like the following:

• A company that is fully interoperable and even offers support for people who attempt to interoperate;
• A company that offers interoperable alternatives for all products that they deliver;
• A politician who pushes interoperability in their respective parliament;
• An individual who promotes interoperability publicly.

Cyber security

Cyber security is a topic that directly influences countless businesses. Digital Justice gives the Cyber security Award to people and organisations who do something like the following:

• A company who makes cyber security accessible to a large audience;
• A company who actively seeks out vulnerabilities and warns the world about them;
• A politician who works hard to improve cyber security in their respective area;
• An individual with a great impact on their local or the global area.

Openness

Openness stands for transparency, open source and decentralization. Digital Justice gives the Openness Award to people and organisations who do something like the following:

• A company whose service can easily be used without directly interacting with that company;
• An organisation that promotes and keeps track of open source projects;
• A politician that fights for openness in the government's source code;
• An individual that releases very valuable code under an open source license.

Software Autonomy

Software Autonomy is a digital right that we're slowly losing, but not all hope is lost. Digital Justice gives the Software Autonomy Award to people and organisations who do something like the following:

• A company that makes it easy to wipe the installed software and replace it with an open source (Unix) alternative;
• A company that sells products without any preinstalled software, and where extensions are all opt-in;
• A politician that actively defends software autonomy from large tech companies;
• An individual who managed to convince a company to sell their software as an autonomous product.

Freedom of Installation

Freedom of Installation is a difficult right to manage in practice, but it's not impossible. Digital Justice gives the Freedom of Installation Award to people and organisations who do something like the following:

• A company that only requires its employees to install open source/interoperable software on their work computers;
• A company that allows open source alternatives to interoperate with their products;
• A politician that preserves freedom of installation publicly;
• An individual that had a great impact to boost people's freedom of installation.

Software Warranty

Software Warranty is often the forgotten child of digital rights. Digital Justice gives the Software Warranty Award to people and organisations who do something like the following:

• A company who offers outstanding warranties for the software they deliver;
• A company who offers free software updates without forcefully installing extra unwanted features;
• A lawyer that attempts to realize software warranty by law;
• An individual who managed to get warranty on a program they bought.

Abandonware Continuity

Abandonware Continuity is quite a complex digital right, but it still is one. Digital Justice gives the Abandonware Continuity Award to people and organisations who do something like the following:

• A company that releases their source code when a closed-source project of theirs has gone obsolete or is no longer supported;
• An organisation that gathers and preserves old software that is no longer supported but could still be crucial for some people;
• A programmer who managed to find an easy way to find and avoid bugs that will resolve in issues in 2039;
• An individual who managed to preserve an old collection of videogames of which the owners are no longer known.