"Organization name","Area of work","Geographic focus",Year,"Amount committed (US$)","Funding purpose","Investment Description" "Access Now","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2021,57000,"Project Agreement","To support a collaborative effort between Access Now and Observacom, addressing content moderation practices and aiming to guarantee user's freedom of expression online in Argentina." "ALT Advisory","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,300000,"Project Agreement","To support ALT Advisory's work towards an effective digital and information rights landscape in South Africa and in the region more broadly." "Article 19","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2021,350000,"Project Agreement","To support Article 19's Digital Rights Program to enable a more favorable digital environment for exercising human rights, especially freedom of expression and access to information in Mexico" Aspiration,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,756000,Other,"To support AI Now Institute (Cadence), a project housed at Aspiration Tech, that works to produce interdisciplinary research and public education on the social implications of artificial intelligence, and the industry responsible for it." "Association for Progressive Communications (APC)","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,350000,"Project Grant","To provide a project grant to APC for capacity building of digital rights defenders, connecting them to other actors in the space, and supporting the work of different actors to promote a human rights-based approach to information and communications technology (ICT) policy making and advocacy in Southeast Asia." "Co-op Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,675000,"Program Grant","To provide a renewal grant to the Coop Foundation to support the Federation programme in Manchester." "Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To renew unrestricted support to Digital Freedom Fund's grant-making and field building in digital rights." "Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative (DRLI)","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,100000,"Program Grant","To support two activities at DRLI: 1) publication of review of digital rights judgments, and 2) litigation surgeries to deepen digital rights in Nigeria with a view to ensuring that Nigerians' digital rights are comprehensively protected." "e-Governance Academy","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,342000,"Project Grant","To support e-Governance Academy, an Estonian CSO founded in 2002, in conducting ecosystem building research, namely investigating the widening gap in Ukraine and Georgia in terms of digital literacy, access to digital tools, and digital skills among various vulnerable groups." "Education as a Vaccine (EVA)","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,35000,"Project Grant","To uphold the rights of young people especially young women to utilize digital technology for accessing information and as a social accountability tool and to strengthen their understanding on digital rights and interlinkage with other rights." "ELSAM (The Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy)","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,300000,"Project Agreement","To support the organisation's work towards the inclusion of human rights principles in policies and regulations in Indonesia, with specific focus to strengthen the protection of digital rights in Indonesia." "Estonian Human Rights Centre","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,166000,"Project Grant","To support Estonian Human Rights Centre, an independent non-governmental human rights organisation to develop their digital rights competence and raise awareness in the field." "European Digital Rights (EDRi)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,590000,"General Funding Grant","To support EDRi, the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online." "ICT Watch","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,70000,"Project Agreement","To support series of workshops on privacy, personal data protection, and digital security in twelve provinces across Indonesia." Liberty,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Liberty, an independent membership organisation that challenges injustice, defends freedom, and campaigns to make sure everyone in the UK is treated fairly." medConfidential,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,50000,Other,"To support MedConfidential's core work campaigning for confidentiality and consent in health and social care." "New America","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,305000,"Program Grant","To support Ranking Digital Rights, a programme that works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users rights." "New Venture Fund","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,400000,Other,"To support Digital Action's work coordinating policy engagement and advocacy, and encouraging collaboration on digital rights." "New York University","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,305000,"Program Grant","To support The Governance Lab's Data Programme." OBSERVACOM,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2021,57000,"Project Agreement","To support a collaborative effort between Access Now and Observacom, addressing content moderation practices and aiming to guarantee user's freedom of expression online in Argentina." "Open Data Manchester","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2021,240000,"Program Grant","To support the educational, training and engagement work of Open Data Manchester, a community group that advocates for responsible and intelligent data practice in Greater Manchester and beyond." "Paradigm Initiative","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,105000,"Program Grant","To support PIN, which is working as part of a cohort to strengthen the data and digital rights ecosystem in Nigeria. PIN will address threats and challenges to digital rights in Nigeria through a blend of: 1) building capacity of civil society actors; 2) supporting strategic litigation efforts; and 3) raising public awareness of digital and data rights more broadly." "Paris Peace Forum","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,80000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support to the annual Paris Peace Forum to mobilise collective action around governance and to the organisation helping implement and develop the most promising projects and solutions presented at the annual event." "Res Non Verba","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,400000,Other,"To support The Open Data Charter, a project at Civic House that aims to make data open and freely available, while protecting the rights of people and communities." SAFEnet,"Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,199900,Other,"To support the organisation in advancing the work on digital rights violation monitoring and in increasing the digital rights and digital security awareness in Indonesia." "Stanford University","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2021,400000,"Project Grant","To support Stanford's Cyber Policy Center in their research, project, and writing/editing work" "The Citizens","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,350000,Other,"To support The Citizens, an organisation with a mission to use impact journalism to hold government and big tech to account." "The Conversation Indonesia","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2021,200000,Other,"To support TCID in curating and distributing research-based and credible content on digital rights, digital democracy, and other socio-political issues in Indonesia." "University of Johannesburg","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2021,100000,"Program Grant","To support University of Johannesburg's Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP) to carry out advocacy and further investigative reporting of instances of state-surveillance in Southern Africa." Upturn,"Data & Digital Rights","United States",2021,750000,"General Funding Grant","To provide unrestricted core support for Upturn's work to promote equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology." "World Wide Web Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2021,250000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to the Web Foundation." "Access Now","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,1100000,"Project Grant","To provide general operating support to Access Now and to its work in Central & Eastern Europe." "ALT Advisory","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2020,100000,Other,"To support Alt Advisory's research, analysis, and policy work on data and digital rights issues arising directly and indirectly from the COVID-19 pandemic." "Amnesty International","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,200000,"Project Grant","To support a multi-year programme of work focussed on disrupting the surveillance-based business models of big tech companies." "Atlantic Council","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2020,45000,"Project Grant","To support the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)'s work to research and understand misinformation flows in Nigeria." "East West Management Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2020,349618,"Program Grant","To support EWMI-ODI work to: (i) build the constituency of Indigenous Peoples who assert and promote Indigenous Data Sovereignty; (ii) build the capacities within the Indigenous Peoples communities to adapt technology to changing circumstances without external assistance; and (iii) develop the Indigenous Data Sovereignty framework that is reflective of Indigenous Peoples in Asia and ensure the use of this framework to involve Indigenous Peoples in policy development." "El Veinte","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,50000,Other,"To support the initiative ""COVID-19 Index and Digital Rights"" (Index), an alliance of NGOs working together to monitor and address the digital rights implications of regulatory, technical, and public policy measures in response to COVID-19 in Colombia." "Engage Media","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2020,200000,"General Funding Grant","To develop and strengthen the data and digital rights network and ecosystem in Southeast Asia through convening, peer-learning, and series of research and advocacy." Foxglove,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,300000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support for Foxglove." "Frontiers of Tech Governance","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,200000,Other,"To support stakeholder engagement around convening an international effort on digital rights." "Fund for the City of New York","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,9500,"Project Grant","To provide partner support to Open Data Charter." "Fundación Vía Libre","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,60000,Other,"To support The Citizen Initiative for the Control of the Intelligence System (ICCSI), an initiative dedicated to monitoring and promoting the effective operation of control mechanisms over the intelligence system of Argentina." "GFF (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,300000,"General Funding Grant","To support GFF's work to establish a sustainable structure for successful strategic litigation in the area of human and civil rights in Germany and Europe." "Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,150000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to ILDA to expand its work on open data through applied research, experimental pilots, and agenda building." "Instituto Igarapé","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,400000,Other,"To support the Igarapé Institute, a non-profit and independent think and do tank focused on delivering data-driven and evidence-based solutions for security, justice, climate, and development challenges." Intervozes,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2020,110000,Other,"To support Intervozes, a non-profit civil society organisation established in 2003 to guarantee and improve the human right to communication, including freedom of expression and seeking, receiving and impart information and ideas, privacy, and data protection." "Irish Council for Civil Liberties","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,150000,Other,"To support the Irish Council for Civil Liberties in delivering a program of work to protect the privacy rights and personal data of European-based internet users." MAFINDO,"Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2020,40489.51,Other,"To support building the capacity of local fact-checkers in nine provinces in Indonesia to help debunking mis/disinformation in the lead up to the Indonesia 2020 local elections." medConfidential,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,50000,Other,"To support MedConfidential's core work campaigning for confidentiality and consent in health and social care." "Mozilla Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Multi-Country,2020,1500000,Other,"To establish the Data Futures Lab, a new initiative housed within Mozilla aimed at advancing work on new data stewardship models to enable collective action and collective rights in relation to data." "Network of European Foundations","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,550000,"Program Grant","To establish a pooled fund to strengthen an ecosystem for European public interest and civil society organisations to shape the direction of AI in Europe based on a diversity of actors and a plurality of goals that represents society as a whole." "New America","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,25000,"Project Grant","To support the Ranking Digital Rights project." "Nuffield Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,250000,"Project Grant","To support the work of the Ada Lovelace Institute, with particular focus on the Institute's responsive work on COVID-19 and technology, and the Institute's international engagement." "Open Data Institute (ODI)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,1100000,"Program Grant","To support ODI's programmes on Data Institutions, Data Skills, and Data Assurance / Governance." "Open Knowledge Foundation Germany","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,975000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKFDE), a non-profit organisation focusing on the dissemination of free and openly accessible knowledge." "Open Rights Group","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,75000,Other,"To support a project exploring the impact that British negotiations to leave the EU, alongside the agreement of new trade agreements, will have on data and digital rights protections." "Paris Peace Forum","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,175000,"General Funding Grant","To provide support to the annual Paris Peace Forum to mobilise collective action around governance and to the organisation helping implement and develop the most promising projects and solutions presented at the annual event." "Partnership on AI","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Partnership on AI's work to develop and share best practices; advance public understanding; provide an open and inclusive platform for discussion and engagement; and identify and foster aspirational efforts in AI for socially beneficial purposes." "Public Citizen","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2020,200000,"Project Grant","To support the Digital Trade Alliance project at Public Citizen." "Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general support to Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV), a non-profit think tank based in Berlin working on bringing tech companies, government, and civil society together on policy proposals on the intersection of technology and public policy such as the impact of AI, intelligence oversight on surveillance, and disinformation in political campaigns." "The Citizens","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2020,150000,Other,"To support the establishment and set-up of the Real Facebook Oversight Board." "The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2020,75000,"Project Grant","To support development of the Justice, Equity and Technology Table which will create routines and structures for knowledge exchange and coordination between civil society practitioners on issues of justice, data-driven technologies, and their governance." "Tifa Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2020,119553,"Project Grant","To support research and policy engagement on data governance in the Health and Education sectors during COVID-19 and its impact towards public service delivery in Indonesia." "Tilburg University","Data & Digital Rights",Multi-Country,2020,200000,"Project Grant","To support policy specialist position for the Global Data Justice project at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society." "Africa Check","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2019,64952,"Project Grant","To support the Digital Africa Research Lab in addressing the threat posed by the misuse of social media in the 2019 Nigerian general election and post-election period." "European Digital Rights (EDRi)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2019,550000,"General Funding Grant","To support EDRi, an association of civil and human rights organisations from across Europe, defending rights and freedoms in the digital environment." Foxglove,"Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2019,41200,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Foxglove in providing pre-litigation research related to tech accountability." "Fund for the City of New York","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,200000,"Project Grant","To support the Open Data Charter, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of principles." "HNK Legal","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,"For-profit figures not reported",Other,"To support HNK, a legal firm and consultancy focused on data rights." "Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2019,900000,"Program Grant","To support ITS' work on democracy and technology, algorithmic accountability, disinformation, and computational propaganda." InternetLab,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2019,360000,"General Funding Grant","To support InternetLab's work in advancing technology policy and promoting human rights in the digital environment." "Local Development Research Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2019,75000,"Program Grant","To support an Open Government Partnership (OGP) Fellow engaged in the Kenya Open Government CSO Support program." MAFINDO,"Data & Digital Rights",Asia,2019,50793,"Project Grant","To support MAFINDO, an Indonesian non-profit organisation to enable them to do social media monitoring and platform-focused advocacy during the period leading up to and after the Indonesian election." "Mozilla Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,500000,"Program Grant","To support Mozilla Foundation's project to build, test, and distribute the underlying technology required to quantify the harms of surveillance capitalism." "New America","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,450000,"Project Grant","To support New America Foundation's Ranking Digital Rights programme." "New Venture Fund","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,400000,"Project Grant","To support Digital Action to work with partner organisations around the world to identify and mitigate technology-based vulnerabilities for impending elections and to build strategic coalitions to push for reforms that will build resilient democracies into the future." "Open Data Manchester","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2019,160000,"Program Grant","To support the educational and engagement work of Open Data Manchester, a community group that advocates for responsible and intelligent data practice in Greater Manchester and beyond." "Open Government Partnership (OGP)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,1500000,"General Funding Grant","To support OGP, launched in 2011 to provide an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens." "Open Knowledge Foundation Germany","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2019,340000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, which focuses on open data, transparency, and access to information through the use of FOI." PersonalData.IO,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,150000,"General Funding Grant","To support personaldata.io, an organisation committed to developing, supporting, and stewarding infrastructure that enables, accelerates, and maximises individual and collective empowerment around personal data." "Privacy International (PI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,2500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Privacy International, which advocates for the right to privacy for everyone, everywhere. Privacy International raises awareness about technologies and laws that place privacy at risk, to ensure that the public is informed and engaged." "Res Non Verba","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,200000,"Project Grant","To support the Open Data Charter, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of principles." Right2Know,"Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2019,240000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Right2Know Campaign, a grassroots organisation raising public awareness, mobilising communities, and undertaking research and targeted advocacy that aims to ensure the free flow of information necessary to meet people's social, economic, political, and ecological needs." "Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2019,80000,"Project Grant","To support Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in comparing the US and the EU on their capabilities to address social, economic, and political challenges associated with AI." "The Governance Lab","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,395000,"Program Grant","To support The Gov Lab in its mission to strengthen the ability of institutions and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems." "The University of Oxford Development Trust","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,500000,"Project Grant","To support a new research programme at the Oxford Internet Institute called the Governance of Emerging Technologies." "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,750000,"Program Grant","To support UNC's Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)" "World Wide Web Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2019,600000,"General Funding Grant","To support the World Wide Web Foundation, which was established in 2009 by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to advance the open Web as a public good and a basic right." "Access Now","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,851305,"General Funding Grant","To support Access Now's Digital Security Helpline, a resource offering real time, direct technical assistance and advice to users at risk around the world, and the work of Access Now Europe." "Article 19","Data & Digital Rights",Africa,2018,30000,Other,"To support Article 19's participation in a government taskforce working to propose a new data protection policy for urgent adoption in Kenya." Aspiration,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,89118.52,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Aspiration to deliver a series of workshops to determine the feasibility of technology backed interventions to meaningfully address the problem of disinformation." "Association for Computing Machinery","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,500000,"Program Grant","To support the Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, a project of ACM. This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems." "Avina Americas","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2018,700000,"Project Grant","To support Avina Americas in establishing a three-year collaborative regranting mechanism called Initiativa por los Derechos Digital en Latinoamerica - Indela to strengthen and further develop the digital rights ecosystem in Latin America." "Data and Society Research Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,4500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Data & Society, a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development." "Fundacao Getulio Vargas","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2018,88000,"Project Grant","To support FGV Department of Public Policy Analysis (FGV DAPP)'s project focused on near real-time monitoring of disinformation and fake news in Brazil's 2018 elections, with the goals of positively influencing public debates and informing electoral authorities and policymakers on how to deal with related challenges." "Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2018,561610,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to ILDA to expand its work on open data through applied research, experimental pilots, and agenda building." Liberty,"Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2018,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To provide core support to Liberty to support and expand the organisation's capability, particularly around privacy, surveillance, and data protection and their relationship to human rights." "Mozilla Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2018,752140,"Project Grant","To support the Mozilla Foundation in conducting public campaigns and coalition building in key EU member states and to partner with Global Progress to promote a policy agenda that defends democracy from digital threats." "Neo Philanthropy","Data & Digital Rights",Multi-Country,2018,575000,"Project Grant","To support country efforts around our strategy on digital threats to democracy." "Paris Peace Forum","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2018,590000,"General Funding Grant","To support Paris Peace Forum, an organisation combining an annual event with support through the year to demonstrate that international cooperation is key to tackling global challenges." "Partnership on AI","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Partnership on AI, a multi-stakeholder organisation that brings together academics, researchers, civil society organizations, companies building and utilising AI technology, and other groups working to better understand AI's impacts." "Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2018,420000,"General Funding Grant","To support R3D in continuing to build evidence-based approaches to defend human rights in the digital realm." "Swish Labs","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,48000,Other,"To fund specialised engineering and design services from Swish Labs, delivered to Robhat Labs, which is building a user-facing software that detects and labels automated and spam accounts on Twitter." "The University of Oxford Development Trust","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,999127,"Program Grant","To support the University of Oxford to support the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Programme. The programme investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation, and politics." Upturn,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2018,750000,"General Funding Grant","To support Upturn, an organisation that promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology." "Center on Privacy and Technology","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2017,600000,"Project Grant","To support the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, which is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy???and the communities they affect." "Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2017,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Digital Freedom Fund, a non-profit fund that supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation." "Directorio Legislativo","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2017,235795,"General Funding Grant","To support Directorio Legislativo through a process to more fully apply civic technology and open data into their parliamentary openness work." "Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,10000000,"Program Grant","To support the establishment of the Ethics and Governance of AI Fund." "Fund for the City of New York","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,500000,"Project Grant","To support the Open Data Charter, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of Principles." "Georgetown University","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2017,600000,"Project Grant","To support the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, which is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy—and the communities they affect." "GFF (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2017,250000,"General Funding Grant","To support GFF, an organisation undertaking strategic litigation to support human and civil rights, with a focus on digital rights." "Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2017,575000,"General Funding Grant","To support ITS Rio in implementing data activities including work on blockchain, algorithmic accountability, and open data." "Instituto Igarapé","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2017,810000,"Program Grant","To support Igarapé Institute, a think and do tank committed to safety, security and justice with operations across Latin America and Africa." "Open Data Charter","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,500000,"Project Grant","To support the Open Data Charter, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of Principles." "Open Data Institute (ODI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,2500000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Open Data Institute, an organisation working with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem, where people can make better decisions using data and manage any harmful impacts." "Open Data Manchester","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2017,100000,"Project Grant","To support the educational and engagement work of Open Data Manchester, a community group that advocates for responsible and intelligent data practice in Greater Manchester and beyond." PODER,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2017,385000,"Program Grant","To support PODER's Transparency Technologies program to expand its work in open contracting and beneficial ownership, whistleblowing and whistleblower protection, and digital security." "Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2017,1425000,"General Funding Grant","To support Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in research and policy development on technology issues including data governance, fake news, and surveillance." "The AI Now Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2017,1500000,"Program Grant","To support the AI Now Institute at New York University. The AI Now Institute is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence across four key domains: rights and liberties, labour and automation, bias and inclusion, and safety and critical infrastructure." "Data and Society Research Institute","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,850000,"General Funding Grant","To support Data & Society, a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development." DataKind,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,2000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Datakind, an organisation building a community of data scientists for social change." "Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2016,1050000,"General Funding Grant","To support IMCO's successful work to enhance government transparency and citizen engagement in Mexico through programs such as Mejora tu Escuela (Improve your School) and 3de3." "Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,1500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge, a central player in the movement for open, useful information, which has helped build communities of practice and tools to facilitate greater and more efficient publication and consumption of data." "Privacy International (PI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,2200000,"General Funding Grant","To provide general operating support to Privacy International, an organisation building a global movement for the rights of citizens to privacy, contesting growing state surveillance and challenging data exploitation." "The Governance Lab","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2016,1000000,"Program Grant","To support GovLab's Data programme, especially its work on open data impact, open data demand, data stewards, data collaboratives, and its work to coordinate the International Open Data Conference's research symposium." "Development Initiatives","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,670000,"Program Grant","To support an international framework and working group on ""Joined Up Data.""" I-SEEED,"Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,440000,"Project Grant","To support the further development, adoption, and consolidation of an International Open Data Charter, which sets out principles to guide the creation and implementation of open data policies and initiatives of governments." "Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a project by Open Knowledge Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation called Open Data for Tax Justice (OD4TJ) Network to catalyse a network of people and organisations working to use open data to improve advocacy and journalism around tax justice." "Publish What You Fund","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,330000,"Project Grant","To support an international framework and working group on ""Joined Up Data.""" "The Governance Lab","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,100000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support GovLab in the research and production of case studies on the impact of open data." "World Wide Web Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2015,2000000,"General Funding Grant","To support the World Wide Web Foundation, which was established in 2009 by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to advance the open Web as a public good and a basic right." "Data and Society Research Institute","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2014,15000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To fund a convening on Data, Discrimination, and Civil Rights held in Washington, DC." DataKind,"Data & Digital Rights","United States",2014,400000,"General Funding Grant","To support Datakind, an organisation building a community of data scientists for social change." "Global Integrity","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,35800,"One-Off Funding Grant","To provide funding for an upcoming convening of the Governance Data Alliance, which seeks to improve the quality of governance data and foster better communication between data producers and data users." "Lateral Economics","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,65000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support Lateral Economics's research intended to quantify the economic value of open data, for the purpose of supporting policy recommendations in G20 meetings." "Open Data Institute (ODI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,4100000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Open Data Institute, an organisation working with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem, where people can make better decisions using data and manage any harmful impacts." "Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,1075000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge, a central player in the movement for open, useful information, which has helped build communities of practice and tools to facilitate greater and more efficient publication and consumption of data." "Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Europe,2014,50000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To provide funding for a consultant to evaluate the Open Knowledge Foundation." "Privacy International (PI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,1000000,"General Funding Grant","To support Privacy International, a global leader in policy, advocacy, and campaigns concerning the rights of citizens to privacy, especially state surveillance and the use of personal data in the public sphere." "Tactical Technology Collective","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2014,500000,"General Funding Grant","To support Tactical Tech Collective, an organisation that works globally to help transparency and accountability activists, citizen journalists, and human rights advocates use information and technology effectively in their work." Fundar,"Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2013,211000,"Project Grant","To support Fundar which seeks to build a data community to create social value from Mexico City's open transit data." "Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2013,390000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge Foundation's work identifying whether and how it is possible to empower citizens by providing them with easy access to fiscal data on the public services that they care about." "Open the Government","Data & Digital Rights","United States",2013,200000,"Project Grant","To support Open the Government, an organisation that provides a platform for the community of open government-focused NGOs in the U.S. to collaborate on issues of shared importance." "World Wide Web Foundation","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2013,400000,"Project Grant","To support the development of a technical data standard that would enable civil society, governments, and the private sector to rapidly compare and contrast information contained in government contracts." "Yo Propongo","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2013,130000,"Project Grant","To fund its efforts to develop an online platform that will enable citizens in Mexico City to monitor the city's progress in achieving its operational and impact metrics." "Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2012,25000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support a convening organised by the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness to increase awareness of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) among Latin American transparency organisations." "Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO)","Data & Digital Rights","Latin America",2012,900000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness's transformation from policy think tank to civic platform administrator by broadening reach, with a special focus on educational transparency platform." "Open Data Institute (ODI)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2012,750000,"General Funding Grant","To support the Open Data Institute, an organisation working with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem, where people can make better decisions using data and manage any harmful impacts." "Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF)","Data & Digital Rights",Global,2011,750000,"General Funding Grant","To support Open Knowledge Foundation, a UK-based non-profit whose mission is to develop and promote open knowledge (information that can freely be used, reused and redistributed) to foster better governance through transparency, provide greater access to culture, and spur research and innovation."