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Call for proposals: Advancing Data & Digital Rights in Nigeria
Luminate is seeking to fund projects that focus on building and strengthening the data and digital rights ecosystem in Nigeria in 2021. Apply for funding by 3 September.
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Chicken & Egg Pictures: Creating spaces for more impactful storytelling
Chicken & Egg Pictures’ support to filmmakers includes mentorship and guidance for early-stage filmmakers, grant funding to filmmakers, and the annual Chicken & Egg Award that recognizes five to six women and gender nonconforming...
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From protest to reform: A study of social movements’ success
Luminate commissioned FairSquare Research to explore four recent protests to examine why some movements succeed and others fail.
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Digital Rights in Nigeria: Emerging Issues and Opportunities
Nigeria’s data and digital rights ecosystem is evolving rapidly, and Luminate is now seeking opportunities to support work that will advance principles of participation, transparency, and accountability in Nigeria.
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Organisational changes at Luminate
Over the three years since launching Luminate, we have witnessed the continued retrenchment of democracy around the world. In this context we have started to reflect on our future direction, the evolving role we should play...
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Nigeria: Report highlights need to strengthen internet freedom and data...
A new report from Nigeria’s data advisory and analytics firm Stears Data says that more judicial and regulatory oversight is needed to sufficiently protect free speech online and personal data, especially when government...
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Data & Digital Rights in Nigeria: Assessing the activities, issues and...
This research provides insight into key issues in data and digital rights; effective approaches to addressing those issues; and opportunities for impact, with input from representatives in the public and private sectors,...
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We gave up our privacy to fight COVID-19, can we get it back?
People You May Know, an FT Film written by James Graham on the challenges presented by big data and algorithms, was released in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate.
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Luminate at RightsCon 2021
Join our team this week at RightsCon for conversations on rights-aligned investing, collective data rights in Latin America, and diversity of capital in Central & Eastern Europe.
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Collective approaches in data protection in Latin America: Finding a narrative...
Artificial intelligence in Latin America is still in its infancy, and official initiatives –in the judiciary, for example– are undertaken with no accountability. Carlos Cortés of Linterna Verde highlights how big data...
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A new balance for data protection?
InternetLab's Mariana Valente and Francisco Brito Cruz share how Brazil's existing institutions and tools developed to face collective damages can be applied to the issue of data rights.
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Collective challenges and opportunities in data protection: A Latin American...
Access Now's Javier Pallero shares his perspective on collective data rights in Latin America and the opportunities and challenges this idea presents in the region.
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What’s the opportunity for collective data rights in Latin America?
Since publishing The Data Delusion last year, we’ve reflected on how the issue of collective data rights and the framework laid out in the paper play out differently around the world. We talked with experts on digital...
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Human Rights Centre to broaden scope of activities
The Estonian Human Rights Centre focuses on diversity & inclusion, equal treatment, refugee rights, hate speech and hate crimes. With funding from Luminate, the centre will add data protection and digital rights to its portfolio.
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