A Better Web for Everyone

The Internet Archive runs dozens of projects, including: the Wayback Machine, a repository of 475 billion web pages; OpenLibrary.org, a free, digital lending library of over 4.6 million eBooks; Software Collections, designed to preserve and provide access to rare or difficult to find software titles that enable gamers to play them through emulation; and Community Webs, which trains, supports, and provides web archiving resources to public librarians at institutions across the U.S. and Canada. The Internet Archive also hosts the Filecoin Archives, a community-led project to curate, disseminate and preserve important open access to information often at risk of being lost. Filecoin Foundation's contribution to the Internet Archive advances the mission of both organizations to preserve humanity's most valuable information and improve access to information online.

FFDW’s commitment to Starling Lab supports their work to prototype tools and principles to bring historians, legal experts, and journalists into the new era of Web3. Our partnership supports the development of open-source tools, best practices, and case studies to verifiably document human and civil rights violations, war crimes, and testimony of genocide. Starling Labs’ work to preserve human rights violations, with the help of Filecoin’s decentralized storage network, has been highlighted in Fast Company and CNN.

In partnership with researchers from the University of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences, the Initiative ensures that large geospatial datasets are accessible to research organizations and the general public. This collaboration with FFDW helps the Initiative develop the capacity and infrastructure for uploading, analyzing, and extracting large quantities of data using decentralized storage technologies, including Filecoin and IPFS.