Hello!
We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We advocate for and build small technology to protect personhood and democracy in the digital network age.
Small Technology
Small Technology are everyday tools for everyday people designed to increase human welfare, not corporate profits.
Small Tech is…
- easy to use
- personal
- private by default
- share alike
- peer to peer
- interoperable
- zero knowledge
- non-commercial
- non-colonial
- inclusive
Learn more about Small Technology.
What we do
Our main activity is research and development. We also spend some of our time on implementing technological regulation, advocacy, raising awareness, and education.
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Research and development.
Imagine a peer-to-peer web where you own your own home at your own address and where only you have the key to your front door. This is what we’ve been working towards for the last five years.
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Technological regulation.
We reduce the harms of surveillance capitalists by limiting their surveillance capabilities on the centralised web with Better Blocker, our tracker blocker and self-curated tracker database.
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Advocacy, raising awareness, and education.
We advocate for Small Tech as the antidote to Big Tech and surveillance capitalism.
We give talks, write articles and books, and give media interviews.
Some of our work
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Site.js
Develop, test, and deploy your secure static or dynamic personal web site with zero configuration.
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Better Blocker
A tracker-blocking privacy tool for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Available from the App Store and the Mac App Store.
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Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag
A book about building inclusive and accessible websites. Available from A Book Apart in paperback or ebook, or in audiobook on Audible.
Rather watch a video?
Here’s a talk we gave at the ThinkAbout Conference in May, 2019 that summarises the problem we’re working to solve and introduces the solution we’re exploring.
Browse more of our talks and learn about our upcoming events.