"Organization name","Area of work","Geographic focus",Year,"Amount committed (US$)","Funding purpose","Investment Description"
"Association for Progressive Communications (APC)","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2024,505000,"Project Grant","This grant will resource APC to connect organisations in Asia working on Big Tech accountability and enable knowledge exchange and sharing of work and strategies. A portion will also be used to provide fiscal sponsorship for the setting up of the organisation What to Fix."
"Bersih Malaysia","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,220000,"Project Agreement","This grant supports Bersih in seeking institutional reforms and to create common narratives and unite civil society and the public behind a common cause."
"East West Management Institute","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2024,150000,Other,"This grant will support a convening regarding digital technology, human rights and social justice in Malaysia and projects and initiatives that emerge from that process."
"Five Arts Centre","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,115000,"Project Agreement","This grant will enable Five Arts Centre to continue its pioneering work in the arts and cultural ecosystem that has contributed to the building of a more inclusive Malaysia."
"Hashtag Generation","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2024,200000,"General Funding Grant","In Sri Lanka, tech platforms have been exploited and weaponised by a range of actors for ethno-political gain. This project will investigate the role of tech platforms on election outcomes, and the impact it has on generating fear and inciting violence against minorities and oppositional voices. The project will also focus on advocacy for tech platforms to do more to remove bad actors and harmful/dangerous content."
"Indonesian Institute for Independent Judiciary (LeIP)","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,200000,"Project Agreement","A project grant to enhance the Court and Judges' expertise on Freedom of Expression online and to carry out research on protection of data privacy in the judicial system."
"Legal Aid Center for the Press (LBH Pers)","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,200000,"Project Agreement","To carry out strategic litigation for online freedom of expression cases and strengthen the capacity of legal aid lawyers in handling public cases."
"Tifa Foundation","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,550000,"General Funding Grant","This is a core support grant to TIFA to support their Data Policy and Governance Program, and to strengthen the organisation in transforming from a previously pure funding agency into a multi-donor, direct implementing organisation."
"UKM Pakarunding","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,100000,"Project Agreement","This project involves the mapping of group-based empowerment programmes in Malaysia."
"Yayasan Bahana","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2024,65000,"Project Agreement","To support Yayasan Bahana develop and expand ""Latih Logika"", a free online course on critical thinking for Indonesian youth."
"Amnesty International","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,305000,Other,"Supporting Amnesty International Indonesia in 1) providing a vibrant and supportive ecosystem for youth groups in civic space; and 2) improving public campaigns for social justice."
"Architects of Diversity","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,300000,"Project Agreement","Architects of Diversity (AoD) is a youth-led non-profit organisation that works on bridging communities among youth for justice, peace, and a sustainable future in Malaysia."
"Association for Progressive Communications (APC)","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,320020,"Project Grant","A project grant to fund advocacy work focused on regulatory mechanisms that can generate evidence-based push for new diligence rules and transparency standards around social media platform monetisation programs."
DigitalReach,"Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,277419,"Project Agreement","Supporting the research on social media, elections, and digital authoritarianism in Southeast Asia."
IDEAS,"Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,300000,"General Funding Grant","This grant will provide support for IDEAS to conduct discussions with youth leaders, including from political parties, and further existing research regarding good governance and policies. It will also allow IDEAS to continue its work in advocating for access to information and facilitating public participation and engagement in policymaking processes."
"Initiative to Promote Tolerance and Prevent Violence (Initiate.My)","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,100000,"Project Agreement","This grant is to support INITIATE.MY, a data-driven initiative to promote tolerance and prevent violence, based in Malaysia."
"Open Net","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,270000,"Project Agreement","To support the organisation's work in using Data Protection Acts to reducing monetisation of the disinformation content and accounts on platforms in South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Taiwan."
Perludem,"Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,102000,"Project Agreement","This grant will provide support to Perludem to build strong and solid CSO Coalition against election disinformation, and to coordinate multi-stakeholder forums that bridge collaboration of CSOs, social media platforms, and elections administrators to prevent and combat election disinformation in Indonesia."
"Purple Code Collective","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,200000,"Project Agreement","This project funding will support Purple Code carrying out legal assistance, tech and psycho-social assistance to victims of online gender-based violence."
SAFEnet,"Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,300000,"General Funding Grant","This is a general support grant for SAFEnet to support their programmatic work on digital rights and freedom of expression, and to strengthen their organization."
"University of Massachusetts Amherst","Information Ecosystems",Asia,2023,198811,"Project Grant","This research grant renewal will extend the partnership between Luminate and UMass Amherst digital politics researchers to develop high-impact action research that supports global civil society to address information disorders across diverse national contexts."
"Yayasan HIVOS","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,200000,"Project Agreement","This project funding will support Yayasan Hivos organise training of trainers, organization accompaniment, and mentorship on holistic safety and security."
"Yayasan Malaysiakini","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2023,100000,"Project Agreement","Yayasan Malaysiakini is a foundation formed under the auspices of Malaysiakini, Malaysia's oldest online news portal. Its main project Sokong, is a digital fundraising platform that aims to connect donors and nonprofits in Malaysia, in an effort to provide increased, consistent and long-term funding for these organisations."
"East West Management Institute","Participation & Dissent",Asia,2022,1953193,"Program Grant","East-West Management Institute (EWMI)'s mentoring and capacity-building programme supports a cluster of organisations working to advance freedom of expression in Malaysia. The programme aims to strengthen the capacity of each organisation and develop their collective ability to coordinate and collaborate more effectively."
"Engage Media","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2022,203430,"Project Grant","A project grant focused on building the capacity of Indonesian civil society in defending digital rights through workshops and trainings, fostering and sustaining networks through advocacy and communication, building better understanding of the role of open technology to support civic actors, and enhancing civil society knowledge and communications."
"ICT Watch","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2022,171000,"Project Agreement","Supporting ICT Watch to extend and expand the capacity building workshops on the importance of privacy and digital literacy to national and local organisations in Indonesia."
"Tifa Foundation","Information Ecosystems, Participation & Dissent",Asia,2022,250000,"Project Agreement","This project funding will support TIFA Foundation carrying out research, convenings, and policy advocacy work"
"University of Massachusetts Amherst","Participation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems",Asia,2022,266450,"Project Grant","A grant to a research coalition based in the University of Massachusetts Amherst that aims to support original research, develop policy advocacy, and provide capacity-building on technology accountability in/from the global South."
"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."
"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."
"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."
IDEAS,"Financial Transparency",Asia,2021,300000,"General Funding Grant","To support IDEAS' organisational strengthening, development of advocacy tools and strategic communications, and to support their goal of deepening research into financial transparency."
"Merdeka Center","Civic Empowerment",Asia,2021,450500,"Project Agreement","To provide project funding to carry out a youth empowerment and leadership program towards the goal of youth voter engagement and mobilisation in semi-rural and rural 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."
"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."
"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."
"East West Management Institute","Civic Empowerment",Asia,2020,800206,"Project Grant","To support East West Management Institute's work in Malaysia strengthening Freedom of Expression civil society organizations"
"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."
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."
"Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)","Independent Media",Asia,2020,645234,"Project Grant","To support the Media Development Investment Fund's Southeast Asia Technical Assistance Programme."
"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."
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."
Rappler,"Independent Media",Asia,2015,"For-profit figures not reported",,"To invest in Philippine Depository Receipts, which support Rappler Holdings Corporation, the parent company of Rappler, a Philippines-based social news network and video website."
SEATTI,"Civic Empowerment",Asia,2014,70000,"One-Off Funding Grant","To support the Openness Marketplace Conference, which seeks to spark and inspire new ideas relating to the Open Government Partnership."
SEATTI,"Civic Empowerment",Asia,2012,2140000,"Program Grant","To support SEATTI (the Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Fund), a partnership between Omidyar Network and Hivos supporting technology-driven civil society organisations working on media and government transparency in Southeast Asia."