Bitcoin and open protocols offer permissionless and freedom money that cannot simply be switched off or frozen.
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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.
"True democracy and the full realisation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are impossible without privacy in our communications, sovereignty over our data, and freedom in our finances."
— The RightsDevs Core Principle
Bitcoin and open protocols offer permissionless and freedom money that cannot simply be switched off or frozen.
Financial and identity infrastructure are increasingly turned into tools of tracking by Big Tech and the state. Privacy and secure communication must be engineered in from the start, not bolted on afterwards.
Much of the software meant to protect human rights and digital 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 user data—analysing and training models on private documents. RightsDevs focuses on open-source, privacy-preserving AI that protects data sovereignty.
RightsDevs exists to grow that generation of developers: local, accountable, and fluent in both engineering and human rights.
Provides permissionless, censorship-resistant financial rails so civil society organisations, activists, and journalists can receive funding and operate safely even under state banking blockades or systemic financial restrictions.
Financial freedom requires non-custodial privacy and open communication. Pairing cryptographic privacy protocols with open communication standards (such as Nostr) defends digital rights, prevents de-platforming, and safeguards metadata.
Deploys local, open-source AI models that run privately on-device or on trusted infrastructure. This guarantees activists and researchers benefit from automated analysis without exposing sensitive data or revealing confidential sources to commercial AI providers.
Embeds international human rights frameworks directly into open-source software architecture, ensuring tools are localisations, audited, and engineered specifically to resist censorship and defend civil liberties in vulnerable regions.
Hands-on, intensive training in Bitcoin protocol mechanics, privacy-preserving techniques, open relay protocols (like Nostr), and localised open-source AI, designed for developers building for real civic communities.
Global human rights standards and civil liberties principles built directly into software architecture and data protection design, ensuring communication privacy and user consent from the ground up.
Direct technical support and mentorship to design, deploy, and maintain localised, censorship-resistant 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, communication privacy, secure storage, 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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