Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)410,000
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a two year grant to Paradigm Initiative to support its core operations and programs around digital rights and digital inclusion in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.
DescriptionThe purpose of this grant is to support the Real Facebook Oversight Board project of The Citizens to challenge the legitimacy of Facebook's Oversight Board and expose the harms of Facebook creatively.
DescriptionA 2-year project grant to support VoxPublic to convene, facilitate, and coordinate a network of digital and non-digital civil society organisations in France to increase pressure on social media companies by questioning their business model and toxic practices regarding discrimination, spread of hate speech, and disinformation. VoxPublic will convene stakeholders to build knowledge and analysis, centre people who experience harm by social media platforms and other injustices, and campaign.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionThis 32-month grant will support ILSB by training diverse women leaders, equipping women in politics to promote gender equality, and fostering partnerships to protect civic space in Mexico.
DescriptionBEUC is the umbrella group for 46 independent consumer organisations from 32 countries. BEUC's main role is to represent them to the EU institutions and defend the interests of European consumers. The BEUC acronym originates from the organisation's French name, Bureau EuropÈen des Unions de Consommateurs.
DescriptionGrant to Doc Society to identify the most promising narratives being made globally on the theme of ‘tech & democracy,’ and to support and bring together issue experts, campaigners, and creatives to explore and better communicate the impacts of big tech on society.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA two-year core operating grant to BudgIT to support the continuation of the organisation's work around ensuring easy access to accurate information and building an ecosystem of social change driver working with advanced technologies to improve availability of and access to accurate information.
DescriptionThe proposed USD500,000 Project Agreement aims to support Data Privacy Brazil in addressing and mitigating injustices and inequities in global and regional information ecosystems by developing and implementing comprehensive AI governance strategies.
DescriptionThis grant will support the organisation in growing and mobilising their European movements to demand their rights be enforced under data protection regulations in Europe. This work will focus on ending the destructive behaviour of digital platforms.
DescriptionThis is a general operating support grant to Global Witness, to further their global campaign and advocacy work mainly on the 'Land and Environmental Defenders' (LED) Programme, an initiative whose ultimate goal is to end the attacks and killings of land and environmental defenders and to address the root causes of the violence against them.
DescriptionTo support IDEC's Telecommunications and Digital Rights Program in promoting a safer, fairer digital environment that protects consumers and upholds human rights in Brazil.
DescriptionThis pilot funding initiative seeks to establish a Public Interest Journalism Fund in Brazil, aimed at supporting public interest media, combating disinformation, and strengthening democracy through collaborative donor and civil society efforts.
DescriptionTo establish a collaborative fund for civil society organizations in Argentina to 1) strengthen the country's civic space, 2) promote the civic participation of underrepresented groups and combatting gender-based violence online and hate speech against them, and 3) create opportunities to enhance community development in peripheral areas.
DescriptionA 2-year grant to support Namati's work in Kenya on the right to citizenship which seeks to end inequality in the access to citizenship by working hand-in-hand with marginalized communities towards equal access to documentation and related rights and services.
DescriptionCore contribution to the Spyware Accountability Initiative, a pooled fund set up by the Ford Foundation to support coordination and capacity building efforts through open, accessible grants to organizations working on spyware accountability anywhere in the world. The fund aims for a sustainable and coordinated global field of activists that is able to curtail the use of surveillance technologies that facilitate authoritarianism, political repression, and the closing of civic space.
DescriptionThis 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.
DescriptionThis project agreement supports CELE in promoting human-rights-based internet governance from the Global South by conducting research to influence global standards, strengthening tech regulation in Latin America, and advocating for these principles regionally and internationally.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTwo-year core funding to support Baraza Media Lab to establish a resource centre and increase products available to stakeholders; to expand presence and engagement in East Africa; and to improve internal operations, governance structures, and practice.
DescriptionAfricaNoFilter supports storytellers and organisations already working to shift stereotypical narratives of Africa through the development of nuanced and contemporary stories. This grant will support AfricaNoFilter implement its strategic plan in accordance with its key pillars: grant-making, research, community building, and advocacy.
DescriptionLuminate will contribute to the Civitates pooled fund to support the 2024-2028 strategy, which will focus on the enforcement of tech regulation at national level across 27 EU member states.
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