Grantee Directory

Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.

The Work in Practice

Interledger grantees work across the world in different financial environments, from regions with limited infrastructure to highly connected digital economies. They include community-based organizations, researchers, technologists, and advocates who build infrastructure, advance research, shape policy, and expand how financial systems work in practice.

Year
2020

25 results

  1. Fueling social justice with a monetization stream, for Ushahidi grassroots users.

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Kenya
    Project lead: Angela Oduor Lungati

    Web Monetizing deployments on Ushahidi, an open-source crowdsourcing platform thatā€™s been used globally for crisis response, human rights protection, good governance, and ensuring integrity in elections. This will enable users to opt-in to access donations to their work seamlessly and directly from their projects. Users will also be able to publicize the licensing associated with content generated on their deployments using a content disclaimer feature.

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  2. Harbour - CC License Request and COIL Tool

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Joshua Elkes

    Addresses the challenges businesses and individuals face when wanting to properly license content from a creator. Harbour is developing a tool that makes it fast and easy for a person to send a content creator a license request link, which explains the context of the request and executes a license for both parties.

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  3. How to Fund your Human Resistance Cell after the Apocalypse

    Grant for the Web

    5 741.40 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: John Rhea

    Writing two short books including one about implementing the JavasScript monetization API that fit into an existing series by the Undead Institute combining pedagogy with humor (and zombies) to make learning fun.

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  4. hymn6

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Atif Ali

    This project aims at creating a no-subscription, no-login, no-ads internet music station based on the micro-transactions streaming ability enabled by the Web Monetization API and the Interledger Protocol.

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  5. Implement Web Monetization in PeerTube with support for skipping sponsor spots embedded in video

    Grant for the Web

    5 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Miles DeWitt

    Implementing Web Monetization features in PeerTube, a federated video sharing platform, giving creators an alternative to YouTube where they can earn money and not worry about fluctuations in ad rates or demonetization.

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  6. Independent News Aggregator

    Grant for the Web

    14 400 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Jason Chrysostomou

    Creating a prototype Web Monetized news aggregator website exclusively for content from independent not-for-profit media that displays content from multiple RSS feed sources.

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  7. Ladyspike Media

    Grant for the Web

    10 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Caitlin Arcand

    Using this new and innovative method of monetization ā€“ and its profits ā€“ to support the writing staff at Ladyspike, the only website of its kind focussing on amplifying voices of women and LGBTQ+ performers in comedy.

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  8. Little Webby Press

    Grant for the Web

    40 100 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Andre Garzia

    Unlocking a more sustainable authorship experience for self-publishing writers through Little Webby Press, a progressive web app (PWA) that generates both an eBook in EPUB3 format and a Web Monetized static website with the book content.

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  9. Monetizing web comments: unleashing engagement with novel incentives

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Matthew Linares

    Developing a version of the open-source Coral Talk comments system that incorporates monetization and experiments with new incentives that reward quality comments, encourage authors to participate in conversations, drive moderation, and that test new ways of stimulating engagement.

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  10. PattyAlexx.com - Webpage for Baking, Photography, Pet Care, Crypto, Web Monetization awareness

    Grant for the Web

    14 997 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Portugal
    Project lead: PatrĆ­cia Carapinha

    Using the personal website www.pattyalexx.com to raise awareness on Web Monetization, crypto currencies, and the Interledger Protocol, by educating readers that arrive to see other content.

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