What is InternetLab?

InternetLab is an independent think tank focused on human rights and digital technologies. It is based in São Paulo, Brazil, and since 2014 works as a non-profit organization. As a human rights organization, we believe that the digital environment must be vibrant, creative, inclusive, protective to fundamental rights, an enabler to the quality of the democratic public sphere, and a promoter of social justice – which implies that the decisions of state and private agents are always under critical analysis. We deliver sophisticated, evidence-based, and impact-oriented social and legal research, as well as analysis to identify and clarify critical issues, thereby helping to build the intellectual and evidential foundation for public awareness, action, and policymaking.

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What Drives Us

In Brazil, the “digital” is already embedded in everyday life. In a highly-connected continent with deep inequalities, a heavy legacy of censorship and authoritarianism, and large social, racial and gender divides, internet and other information technologies now penetrate our most pressing current political, democratic, social, economical and environmental challenges. Promoting human rights in technology and working towards inclusive and democratic policies can no longer be seen as “just a technological issue”.

Institutional funding (2025)

Ford Foundation
Luminate

Funders for projects (2025)

AlSur
Center for International Private Enterprise - CIPE
Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Información (CELE) - Universidade de Palermo
Global Partners Digital
Huck, Otranto e Camargo Advogados
Instituto Betty & Jacob Laffer - IBJL
International Development Research Center
Privacy Internacional
Rockefeller Foundation
Stellenbosch University
Wikimedia Foundation
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Partnerships for projects (2025)

Data Privacy Brasil
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo
Fundación Karisma
Instituto Nupef
InternetBolívia
Momentum - Journalism & Tech Task Force
Núcleo Jornalismo
Rede Conhecimento Social
Revista Azmina
Universidade Federal da Bahia
Wikimedia Brasil

Networks and coalitions

A2K
AlSur
Aliança por Algoritmos Inclusivos - AI+
Coalizão Direitos na Rede
Creative Commons
Forum on Information & Democracy
Global Civil Society Organizations Academic Network on AI Ethics and Policy - Unesco
Global Network Initiative - GNI
Global South Alliance
I4T Global Knowledge Network
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PJIIP)

Former funders

AWO Agency
Fundo Indela
Google
Media Democracy Fund
Meta
Mozilla Foundation
National Endowment for Democracy
new venture fund
Open Society Foundations
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Skoll Foundation
TikTok

Former partnerships

CIEB
Columbia University
Cyrilla
Derechos Digitales
Goethe Institute
IDEC
Instituto Alana
Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Apoio Comunitário - IBEAC
IT for Change
Kenan Institute for Ethics - Duke University
Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais da UFBA (LABHDUFBA)
Novelo Data
Redes Cordiais
Supremo Tribunal Federal
Universidade de Santa Catarina