Nine Projects Selected for Next Generation Internet Pilots

Nine projects will receive grants within the NGI Mobifree and NGI Fediversity pilot programmes. We congratulate the project teams and thank them for their contribution to the Next Generation Internet.

The two pilot programmes each focus on a specific domain. NGI Mobifree works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software. Seven projects have been selected to contribute to these efforts. The NGI Fediversity pilot is building a hosting stack with the goal of bringing easy-to-use, portable cloud services to everyone. Two projects will receive grants to bring this work further.

Liberating the mobile landscape.

Seven projects will join Mobifree in its effort to create a user-friendly mobile ecosystem. These range from concrete applications to systemic improvements. Offline Translator is an application that does what its name implies: handling multilingual needs entirely on-device. It uses only open code, models and datasets, and will contribute to those ecosystems as necessary. Gesture Typing for AOSP-derived Keyboards is a project working on more efficient text input for mobile touch screen devices. It will work on a completely open source implementation of gesture typing. CanIWebView will contribute to standardisation of WebView in W3C. WebViews are software components used to render Web content inside native apps. But they are often overlooked by web developers, web standards developers, and browser engine vendors in terms of compatibility and feature availability.

The final four Mobifree projects all contribute to improving security. IsMyPhonePwned will allow anyone to run a comprehensive security scan on their phone directly from a web browser implementing WebUSB. Androguard is a set of Python-based tools to analyse Android apps. Within Mobifree it will focus on modernizing and modularising its architecture, and create various new tools. Pithus, a free and open-source mobile threat intelligence platform brings transparency through clear and structured reports. Activists, journalists, NGOs, and anyone else can easily generate these reports to better understand the threat landscape. The PiRogue Tool Suite is an open source platform for mobile device forensics and digital investigations. It provides tools for network analysis, mobile forensics, and collaborative case management.

The hosting stack of the Future

The two projects selected within NGI Fediversity both work on Nix. Fediversity is based on NixOS, a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, NixOS is completely declarative and makes upgrading systems reliable. Because it is reproducible, it is ideally suited for complex deployment scenario’s where consistent behaviour, stability and configurability matter. The Nixpkgs Clarity project will contribute to Fediversity by delivering state of the art automated license detection for Nixpkgs. The NixOS Agent-Based Deployment Stack project will work on a tool to manage partially offline fleets of NixOS machines.

If you applied for a grant
This is the selection for the April and June calls of the NGI Mobifree and NGI Fediversity pilot programme only. We always inform all applicants about the outcome of the review ahead of the public announcement, whether they are selected or not. If you have not heard anything, you probably applied to a later call or a different fund that is still under review.

How do I find out which call round I applied to?

You can see which call round you applied to by checking the application number assigned to the project when you submitted the proposal. The number starts with the year and month of the call, so 2025-04- in the case of the April 2025 call. You see that same number featured in the emails we send you (It should not happen, but if you did apply to another call and did not hear anything, do contact us)

Inspired? If you are working on a project that contributes to the Next Generation Internet you can submit a proposal. The next deadline is October 1^st.