Alternatives builds, supports, and promotes independent and alternative media to counterbalance the concentration of media sources and the increasingly flagrant absence of independent analysis and points of view in the current media

Alternatives seeks to empower and support social movements in the use of digital technologies. Our work helps build online communities that aim to make a significant contribution to participatory and democratic processes and to the construction of just and sustainable societies.

We promote and facilitate access to open-source products that offer an open and non-proprietary approach to technology. Alternatives believes in the common good and argues that technology and knowledge do not have to be based on property rights.

Alternatives thus advocates for the development of the Internet for the common good. Our vision is one where all people have easy and affordable access to a free and open Internet to improve their lives and build a more just world. We support the establishment of multisectoral national and international processes-government, private sector, and civil society-for Internet governance. The participation of civil society organizations in the adoption of policies on digital technologies is fundamental given the scale of the challenges involved. On the one hand, the Internet is largely dependent on private actors, whose power may get out of control, while on the other hand, nations are seeking to take advantage of current security issues to propose Internet “models” under their control.