DescriptionTo support Co-Creation Hub, which seeks to bring together stakeholders from different walks of life to work collaboratively on solutions to social challenges facing Nigerian society. It operates Nigeria's first multi-functional, multi-purpose space for social entrepreneurs, and provides related services.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide general support to Democracy Club, which envisions a United Kingdom with the digital foundations to support everyone?s participation in democratic life.
DescriptionTo support D?mocratie Ouverte, an independent, non-partisan, non-profit collective which seeks to integrate more transparency, participation, and collaboration into political systems and organisations.
DescriptionTo support Directorio Legislativo's work in Argentina and Latin America, with a focus on strengthening Directorio Legislativo's in-house communications expertise; stabilizing impact in the anti-corruption and transparency field and opening two legislatures at the subnational level in Argentina; leveraging the Open Government Partnership leadership opportunity.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo develop and strengthen the data and digital rights network and ecosystem in Southeast Asia through convening, peer-learning, and series of research and advocacy.
DescriptionTo 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.
DescriptionTo support a research project evaluating how administrative and political devolution can improve accountability, foster the provision of local public goods and services, and promote citizen engagement in sub-national governance to overcome unequal development and allocation of resources between counties in Kenya.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo provide a seed investment in HiviSasa.com, an online Kenyan newspaper that provides local, county level news tailored for the mobile web.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support the Vladimir Herzog Institute (IVH), a Brazilian civil society organisation founded in 2010, which seeks to defend the values of Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom of Expression.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo support NextRequest, which streamlines the public records request process with a user-friendly, cloud-supported digital portal that makes it easier for civil servants to respond to the public.
DescriptionTo 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.
DescriptionTo help fund the creation of Phandeeyar (formerly Myanmar Innovation Greenhouse), a technology centre serving as a nexus of activity in Myanmar.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo support SeeClickFix, a web and mobile platform to enable citizens to report non-emergency issues, such as potholes, graffiti, abandoned vehicles or property, to their cities in order to improve service delivery and citizen engagement with local government.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support eTekkatho, which builds free, self-contained digital libraries of high quality educational resources for Myanmar universities and community centres.
DescriptionTo support VoteRunLead, a nonpartisan organisation focused on increasing women's political representation at the local and state level in the U.S.
DescriptionTo support the Center for International Media Assistance, a Washington DC-based organisation leading the organising committee for World Press Freedom Day, celebrated with a series of events in DC from May 1-3, 2011.
DescriptionTo support Cidade Democratica, a revenue-generating non-profit that provides an open innovation platform designed for Brazilian users and municipal governments.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. CTIN is a community of practice and a learning network of civic tech practitioners in South Africa, currently hosted as a programme of the Journalism and Media Department.
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