IT independence advice
Map what you rely on today, understand the trade-offs and make a realistic plan for more control.
Understand your options and choose tools that respect your needs, privacy and freedom.
Practical support with communication, collaboration, websites and the infrastructure behind them.
Build resilient networks by sharing knowledge, tools and skills with the people around you.
KABI helps individuals, teams and community groups make confident decisions about the technology they use every day. We bring hands-on experience with open tools, self-hosted services and community networks.
From choosing a private messaging or collaboration platform to planning a website, server or local network, we make the options understandable and fit the solution to the people who will use it.
We believe digital independence grows through practical skills, shared knowledge and relationships between people. We work alongside communities, not above them.
Advice shaped around your real needs
Map what you rely on today, understand the trade-offs and make a realistic plan for more control.
Choose and set up practical tools for messaging, shared documents, meetings, file sharing and publishing.
Plan websites, self-hosted services, backups and networks around your capacity and priorities.
Bring people together, share skills and build stronger local and online technology communities.
FAYY services and independent solutions
Through our FAYY brand, we make practical digital services available to everyone as everyday tools. We can also provide tailored, independent services for other groups or advise you through building and running your own.
People make networks
A hackspace in Jena, Germany. We are collaborating in projects, talks and educative presentations.
A yearly outdor camping gathering of users of the Fediverse in northern Germany.
The WAK-Lab is a place for hackers, makers and people interested in technical things.
Come and join us with your project. We can collaborate together to make things happen!
Come and join us with your project. We can collaborate together to make things happen!
Small steps. Lasting change.
Our approach
From using Nextcloud for files, calendars and collaboration to connecting locations with site-to-site VPNs, we help build private data networks across the internet. The aim is to keep your tools, data and infrastructure in your hands, with the knowledge to understand and manage them.
We make the technology behind everyday services easier to understand, so you can decide what works for you.
There is no one-size-fits-all setup. We help weigh usability, privacy, cost and the skills needed to keep things running.
Use open standards, maintain your own backups and choose where services run. We help make the setup understandable, manageable and yours to shape.
People sharing skills and supporting one another are the foundation of resilient communities, online and offline.