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

111 results

  1. The Hard Drive Review Section

    Grant for the Web

    80 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Jeremy Kaplowitz

    Building the Hard Drive Review Section, an entirely new area of Hard Drive's website that focuses exclusively on game reviews. The video game community has already embraced the idea of micro-donations and directly supporting content creators via Twitch, but there are many video game content creators with massive audiences whose content does not translate to that platform. We want to introduce Web Monetization to our community members and show them this new technology that allows them to support their favorite creators on all kinds of platforms, including independent websites.

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  2. The Metagovernance Project: Community governance and participatory budgeting for the Web

    Grant for the Web

    78 180 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Joshua Tan

    Prototyping a modular, customizable governance standard and framework for online communities that will allow users to design their own rule-sets, choose voting schemes, and make collective decisions about resource allocation and monetary flows through the Web Monetization standard. Rather than providing a fixed governance algorithm, the Metagovernance standard allows developers and users to build, assemble, and share their own governance processes, appropriate to their needs. Through it, for instance, a community that earns money through Web Monetization would have a transparent, accountable means for deciding together how that money should be saved or spent.

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  3. ValueFlows Software for Distributed Cooperative Economic Activity on the Open Web

    Grant for the Web

    68 199.32 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Eli Sterling

    Building a web-based interface with back end support for a Distributed Cooperative Organization's (DisCO) ā€œCommunity Algorithmic Trustā€ (the DisCO CAT). This will be a user-friendly, accessible online tool that will allow the use of Interledger and Web Monetization to connect value production with outside economic models, whether based in fiat currencies or digital coin on a blockchain. Our software will use CommonsPub, which is based on ActivityPub and ValueFlo.ws, together with Interledger though GraphQL to allow interoperability between diverse ledger models, and will be piloted by multiple organizations in order to help us find the strengths and pain points in our software design.

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  4. Web Monetization for Solid based Data Spaces

    Grant for the Web

    96 900 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Hayo Schreijer

    Standardizing the agreements for conditional data sharing between data owner and data user to allow Solid Pod owners to monetize their data. Pods re-decentralize the web by giving people a way to store their data, and make it available to others while keeping full data ownership. Interledger offers a perfect solution for micro-payments without the need for complex and centralized payment providers.

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  5. Web Monetized content creation and Web Monetized content discovery on Moja WiFi in Africa

    Grant for the Web

    90 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Reg Orton

    Building Web Monetization into Moja, a WiFi platform providing free consumer access to the Internet for those who typically cannot afford it. We are tackling two issues with content in the African context: Local content creation is poorly monetized and therefore high value and relevant content is not created or widely published, and access to existing pay-walled content platforms is difficult if not impossible due to low disposable income and relatively high costs for premium and paywalled content. Web Monetizing Moja will both provide an income stream via Web-Monetization, and connect our users with rich content available online.

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  6. World Premiere Feature Film: The Faithful: The King, The Pope, The Princess

    Grant for the Web

    55 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Ann Berman

    Exploring alternative revenue models in film distribution by staging the worldwide premiere of the film The Faithful on the Cinnamon platform. Audiences members who use Web Monetization to purchase a ticket will gain access to special bonus events.

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  7. A case study on monetizing open-access content

    Grant for the Web

    5 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: South Africa
    Project lead: Arthur Attwell

    Collecting and sharing data on Web Monetization implemented in the same way across a range of open-content websites to compare results across content genres and territories.

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  8. A New Approach to Sharing Knowledge on Websites Enabled by Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    10 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Benedikt Kick

    Building and experimenting with a new approach to sharing knowledge on the web, enabled by Web Monetization, that will allow users to have full access to a creatorā€™s shared knowledge, paying them in a pay-as-you-use manner.

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  9. AFRICA KITOKO: a collective of graphic and visual designers illustrating the African and Afro-american culture

    Grant for the Web

    35 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: CĆ“te d'Ivoire
    Project lead: Richard Seshie

    Monetizing africakitoko.com, a site that features rich, data-driven visual content about Africa and African Heritage. Implementing Web Monetization will allow experimentation with a different business model to reward our team of graphic and visual designers, and we will dedicate an explainer page on our website.

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  10. Akita: Get Involved in Web Monetization With or Without the Price Tag

    Grant for the Web

    20 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Elliot Evans, Sharon Wang

    Continuing to develop Akita, a website, browser extension, and outreach initiative that seeks to increase awareness and improve understanding of Web Monetization by providing individuals with helpful resources and insight into their online browsing. It also increases accessibility by enabling engagement with Web Monetization without having to commit money. Additionally, this effort includes the ā€˜A Web Monetization Storyā€™ project, an interactive, story-based Web Monetization tutorial for online creators.

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