Innovate, transmit, unite, protect, sustain. Set by charter, not by season.
International non profit organisation
Digital is rebuilding the world. We lay the stones.
We build open tools, teach the skills, connect the experts, grow the communities, and hold the line so people stay at the centre. Five missions, one conviction: technology serves people, never the reverse.
5Missions 5Core values Collaboration, transparency, responsibility, innovation, inclusion.
7Guiding principles The compass that decides what we take on and what we decline.
17UN goals Our work sits inside the Sustainable Development Goals, not beside them.
01Our mission
Five missions. One ring that does not close.
The foundation exists to take part in a digital transformation that is responsible, sober, sovereign and durable, alongside citizens and institutions. That work divides into five, and each one is a segment of the mark.
Mission 01Innovate
Innovate
Tools built for the public interest
We develop and promote technical models that favour sobriety, efficiency, and the common good. Released open source, documented, and made to be maintained by people who did not write them.
FrameworksStandardsResearch
Transmit
Knowledge that leaves the room
Education, research, and training that close the distance between using a tool and understanding it. For citizens who depend on digital, professionals who build it, and institutions that decide with it.
CurriculaTrainingFellowships
Unite
Expertise, connected across fields
A worldwide community on concrete, high impact projects, built on cooperation and collective intelligence. The people who know a field set the problem. The people who know the tooling answer it.
Working groupsChaptersPartnerships
Protect
People at the centre, by construction
Technology completes and amplifies human capability. It does not replace it. We build the structures that keep that true, so innovation stays in the service of dignity, rights, and wellbeing.
StandardsAuditsAdvocacy
Sustain
Built to outlast the people who start it
Continuity of the projects, the tools, and the vision. Maintainers, shared governance, and endowment, so the impact reaches the generations that inherit it rather than stopping with the enthusiasm that began it.
MaintenanceGovernanceEndowment
02Proof, not promises
Not a lecture. A stage.
Five missions are a claim until something runs. The first thing that does is Stone Play, and it is not a side show: it is how the foundation teaches. Digital literacy almost always arrives as a warning. This arrives as a stage, where artists carry the subject to people who would never sit through a lecture, where young talent finds a first audience, and where the questions that matter get asked in the open. One programme, several things at once.
How the lesson lands
A machine wrote the anthem. Bring what it cannot.
One brief, open to anyone, anywhere: take an anthem a machine composed and give it what a machine has none of, a voice, an identity, a reason to listen. The season opens on interpretation and closes on original work, written and performed by a person. The lesson about what machines add, and what they will never replace, lands in the doing.
Who showed up
Sixty two started. Eighteen came through.
The roster is shuffled on every load, so no one gains from being listed first, and rankings stay hidden until a phase closes. That rule is printed on the page itself, where anyone can hold us to it. It is what the foundation means by responsible: the values sit in the product, not only in the charter.
- Registered
- 62
- Through
- 18
- Eliminated
- 44
The works
Filmed at home. Watched by strangers.
Each participant films two things: an introduction that tells their own story for the phase, and the performance itself. They arrive from Haiti, Canada, the United States, China and further, most of them shot in a bedroom with whatever camera was to hand. One is titled “Le futur c’est nous”. That is the whole programme in four words, and a participant wrote them, not us.
- Entries
- 39
- Votes
- 4.4K
- Views
- 1.9K
Judged in the open
Every mark, published beside the work.
Each submission carries its compiled jury marks and its public vote, on the same page as the performance they judge. Someone who backed a candidate can see exactly why they placed where they placed, and so can everyone else. Nothing on this scoreboard has to be taken on trust.
Open, and on the record
Watch it live, or read it back.
Between the phases the season goes live on TikTok and Instagram for a Masterstroke: the performances, the reasoning behind the marks, and a Masterclass Express where the questions a course never gets to are asked and answered in the open. That is where the teaching happens, carried by the artists rather than aimed at an audience. It all stays up afterwards, every decision included, so the season is as readable between two editions as during one.
“Machines can produce. Algorithms can assist. Living creation belongs to people.”
Stone Foundation · Protect, one of the five missions
03What holds
Five values that cross borders and outlast fashions.
Five values. One identity. They decide every call we make.
Collaboration
Collective intelligence beats the sum of individuals. We build together, in a spirit of mutual support and international cooperation.
Transparency
Trust is born of clarity. Decisions, processes, and results are shared openly, with only the confidentiality genuinely required.
Responsibility
We own the impact of our technical choices on the planet, on society, and on the economy. Ecological and social conscience, shared.
Innovation
Innovate, yes, but never at the expense of people. Creative, pragmatic, and aligned with the general interest.
Inclusion
Digital accessible to all, without exclusion or discrimination. The diversity of voices, cultures, and generations is the wealth.
04The compass
Four sentences that settle arguments.
The charter holds seven guiding principles. These are the ones we reach for when a decision is genuinely hard.
IHuman and machine balance
We have a species to perpetuate, not to replace.
IIDigital sobriety
Sobriety is not a constraint. It is a way through.
IIIDemocratic participation
Democracy lives on every voice, including yours.
IVOperational transparency
Trust is built in the light, never in the shadow.
05Who it concerns
Digital already concerns you. The question is how.
Six ways to stand in front of the same transformation. Choose yours.
Understand what you use, and protect the people around you.
Most people did not choose the digital world they live in. The foundation runs the sessions that turn that dependence back into a decision.
- Screens and family lifeWhat to do when a child is hooked, and how to set rules that survive a week.
- Artificial intelligence, explained plainlyHow it actually works, what it will not do, and how to use it without being used.
- Scams and personal dataConcrete cases, what platforms collect, and the habits that actually protect you.
06Where digital reaches
Digital is not a sector. It runs through all of them.
We claim none of these fields. Digital reaches them, and the same questions follow wherever it lands. We do not answer them on anyone’s behalf: we work with the people who already know their field, and bring what we know to it.
EducationLibrariesCulture and sportUniversitiesPublic institutionsCommunity spaces
Digital professionsCompaniesNon profitsResearchLocal governmentYouth programmes
07Flagship programmes
Programmes are instruments. The mission is the point.
Each one carries a mission into the world with its own team, committee, and site. Three are live today.
InnovateOpen source framework
Stone.js
Write your domain once. Run it in any context.
A framework in plain JavaScript and TypeScript. The domain logic stays untouched while the context changes around it, so the same definition serves an HTTP server, a browser, a command line, and the edge. No rewrite when the target moves.
Node HTTPBrowserCLIServerlessEdgeDogfooding, by conviction: the site you are reading is built with Stone.js. We ship our own tools first.
app/pages/HomePage.tsx// One page. The context decides where it runs.import { JSX } from 'react'import { HomeView } from '../components/home/HomeView'import { IPage, Page } from '@stone-js/use-react'@Page('/', { layout: 'site' })export class HomePage implements IPage { head () { return { title: 'Stone Foundation' } } render (): JSX.Element { return <HomeView /> }}Transmit · UniteInternational civic initiative
Stone Play
Annual cycleSport and culture, for understanding digital.
The year opens with an anthem composed by a machine. It closes with an anthem written and performed by people, on stage, in a different host country each time. Between the two sits the whole lesson: machines produce, algorithms assist, and living creation belongs to people.
- Phase 01Virtual competitionArtists compete on the anthem and its choreography. The winners become the year’s official performers.
- Phase 02Host country eventA tournament, cultural activities, learning spaces, and the finalists on stage.
- Phase 03Documentary and releaseThe official recording and a documentary carry the story further than the stadium.
Transmit · ProtectPublic education
Task Force
In deploymentPractical digital education, on the ground.
One axis holds it together: living and protecting your identity in the digital age. Three strands run under it: digital sobriety, generative artificial intelligence, and security.
Bring it to your organisation- 50+
- Conferences, for reach and first awareness.
- 5·15
- Small talks, for discussion and real questions.
- 25·30
- Training, so partner organisations run it themselves.
08How it is built
Five people is a real unit. Everything else grows from there.
Local action, global coherence. The rings show scope, not authority, and the headquarters holds none.
Level 01Local cell
Local cell
5 to 30 membersThe unit that does things. It starts projects, runs activities, and votes. A neighbourhood, a city, a campus, a workplace.
Regional group
Several cellsNeighbouring cells that choose to pool resources and coordinate to the needs of a territory. It forms because the cells want it.
National branch
One countryCoordinates a country, adapts the charter to local reality, and carries the partnerships that need a national counterpart.
Continental division
One continentHolds the branches of a continent together, strengthens regional representation, and backs projects that cross borders.
Headquarters
WorldwideCoordination and support, with no hierarchical authority. Its job is to connect, to listen, and to keep the network faithful to the mission.
09Trust and credibility
No product to sell you. That is the point.
Institutions ask a foundation precisely because its answer is not tied to a licence renewal. Three commitments make that structural rather than promised.
Independent stewardship
A non profit acting in the public interest, operating without commercial dependency. Nothing we recommend is load bearing for our revenue.
Strategic neutrality
A balanced position across collaborations, weighing long term societal value over short term technological or commercial outcomes.
Institutional governance
Transparency, accountability, and written governance on every initiative, so trust rests on consistency rather than on goodwill.
Partnerships
Institutions, organisations, and communities.
Collaborations are built on dialogue, mutual trust, and a shared interest in the public good. Inquiries are read carefully and answered.
- Coordination office
- QC, Canada
- Correspondence
- contact@stone-foundation.org
10Get involved
Bring a skill. Take one back.
Membership is an undertaking, not an affiliation: uphold the charter, act with integrity, contribute what you can, vote, pass it on, and build for longer than your own attention span. Five people is enough to open a cell.