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Upholding our data & digital rights
We work to uphold data rights by focusing on three complementary areas: open data, privacy, and artificial intelligence. Our digital rights work focuses on freedom of expression issues such as hate speech, online surveillance...
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On Trust & Transparency
We're pleased to share On Trust & Transparency, a new report from Simply Secure based on a human-centred design process they undertook to gain a deeper understanding of our investees’ experiences.
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Using legal aid and strategic litigation to promote press freedom
MLDI provides legal aid to journalists, bloggers, and independent media organisations globally that are tackling legal assaults, often intended as major operational and financial distractions from their mission.
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Luminate awards Media Legal Defence Initiative $1.25 million to protect...
Global philanthropic organisation Luminate today announced funding of $1.25 million to the Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI), as part of its efforts to support independent media around the world and strengthen press freedom.
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Join us this week at RightsCon
Here’s what we’re hoping to learn, who we want to meet, and where you can find the Luminate team this week at RightsCon.
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Sharing the Open Data Retrospective
Dalberg conducted an Open Data Retrospective to explore how and why the open data field evolved globally over the past decade and where the field is today.
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New Media Ventures casts a wide net to defend democracy in the U.S.
In the wake of growing divisions and attempts to limit people’s ability to participate in the democratic process, now is a time to double down on supporting those with a bold vision for positive change.
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Advancing our understanding of the impacts of algorithmic systems
The ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency aims to bridge the gap between technical fields and disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and law and policy.
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U.S. civic tech, ten years in: Building on progress to tap civic tech’s...
The U.S. Luminate team turned to Dalberg to identify and analyze trends and lessons from the last decade of U.S. civic tech. We hope the findings will inform not only our work going forward, but also that of our partners...
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Supporting groundbreaking journalism: our effort to resist the assault...
We must think about how to take more preventative, rather than reactive, measures to ensure that the cost of attacking journalists is higher.
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Bolstering journalists to uncover corruption
Finance Uncovered delivers intensive and focused training courses that equip journalists with the fundamental skills, tools, and confidence to start investigating corruption, money laundering, and tax abuse.
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Velocidad to Help Latin American News Startups Accelerate Revenue Growth
A pioneering initiative announced today will identify and invest $1.5 million in promising news media startups in Latin America and accelerate their efforts to grow into thriving businesses.
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