Bitcoin and open protocols offer permissionless and freedom money that cannot simply be switched off.
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RightsDevs empowers African developers to build and localise open-source tools at the intersection of Bitcoin, privacy and AI, engineered through a human rights lens and frameworks.
Bitcoin and open protocols offer permissionless and freedom money that cannot simply be switched off.
Financial and identity infrastructure are increasingly turned into tools of tracking by Big Tech and the state. Privacy has to be engineered in from the start, not bolted on afterwards.
Much of the software meant to protect human rights and civil liberties is built elsewhere, for other threat models, in other languages, and rarely audited by the people who depend on it day to day.
While commercial AI providers offer powerful services, they capture your data—saving, analysing, and training future models on your private documents and chat histories. RightsDevs focuses on open-source, privacy-preserving AI alternatives that protect data sovereignty and digital rights.
RightsDevs exists to grow that generation of developers: local, accountable, and fluent in both engineering and human rights.
Hands-on, intensive training in Bitcoin protocol mechanics, privacy-preserving techniques and localised open-source AI, aimed at developers who want to build for real communities in the civic space.
Global human rights standards and civil liberties principles built directly into software architecture and data protection design, ensuring privacy and user consent from the ground up.
Direct technical support and mentorship to design, deploy, and maintain localized, privacy-first software tools and infrastructure that defend human rights on the ground.
A working bridge between software engineers, human rights defenders and civil society organisations, so the tools that get built solve problems people actually have.
By connecting open-source developers, particularly BitDevs, directly with human rights advocates and civil society organisations, RightsDevs makes sure the tools that get engineered actually protect financial sovereignty, privacy, secure communication and resist censorship on the ground.
Whether you are an open-source developer, a human rights organisation, or a mentor interested in our programmes, we would love to collaborate.
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