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.
DescriptionTo support New Media Ventures, a seed fund and angel network investing in media and technology startups that support advocacy movements, create new narratives, and drive civic engagement. This investment supports NMV's activities building the ecosystem and financing early-stage, for-profit and non-profit startups.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Open Data Durban, a non-profit civic technology lab that implements and advocates for open data, open government, and civic technology through projects, events, workshops, and dataquests. They work with government, citizens, civic society, and the media to democratise knowledge and enable informed decision making and evidenceâ€based planning.
DescriptionTo support Civic Commons, which was incubated as a 2011 Code for America project and sponsored by the District of Columbia to help government agencies share code, best practices, and innovations in IT.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Convertible (Seed)
DescriptionThis convertible seeks to support Colab, a Brazilian civic tech company, which provides a platform for citizens to engage with local governments and utility companies.
DescriptionTo support Democracy Works' efforts to increase their R&D capabilities to make their voter engagement tools even more effective at serving under-reached voter populations.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente, a non-profit in Chile that seeks to promote government transparency and accountability, using web and mobile technology to encourage active citizen participation and engagement in the political process.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), a non-profit and non-governmental organization that seeks to ensure the rights of Indigenous peoples, working closely with the Indigenous movement in Brazil.
DescriptionTo support the Praekelt Foundation's work on JoziHub, a technology hub in Johannesburg that seeks to catalyse the development of new technology ventures by creating an environment where social entrepreneurs, techies, and other stakeholders can interact.
DescriptionTo support the Co-Creation Hub, Nigeria's first pre-incubation "hub" designed as a multi-functional space for catalysing creative social tech ventures.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionTo support CcHub's GoVote initiative geared towards improving citizens' participation in elections through voter education, registration, and voter-turnout activities.
DescriptionTo support Herdict, the Berkman Center's crowdsourcing platform for providing insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of website accessibility.
DescriptionTo provide project support to New America Foundation to "rethink the think tank". NAF will pilot a model of building a national network of public problem-solvers, offering a new model for public engagement and civic discourse that bridges local, state, and federal policy levels.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionTo support Aina's programmatic work in advancing the participation of women in Mexican politics by supporting them through training, mentorship, and other activities designed to gradually tackle entrenched barriers to enter or stay in public decision-making processes at every level (neighborhood, city, state, and national levels).
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