Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeOne-Off Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide support to Rhodes University to help fund the Highway Africa journalism conference, the largest annual gathering of African journalists in the world.
DescriptionTo support Article 19's participation in a government taskforce working to propose a new data protection policy for urgent adoption in Kenya.
DescriptionA one-year project grant to support work on promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture through digitization and dissemination of visual representations of history and hosting sessions to engage the youth on themes arising.
DescriptionTo uphold the rights of young people especially young women to utilize digital technology for accessing information and as a social accountability tool and to strengthen their understanding on digital rights and interlinkage with other rights.
DescriptionThis is a rapid response grant to AFRICMIL to track and document misinformation and disinformation around the Nigeria elections on social media and provide recommendations on appropriate policy responses.
DescriptionA project grant to Macondo Book Society to support putting together the Macondo Festival as well as side events with the aim of creating avenues for youth to engage with information regarding the country's‚Äö (and continent's) history and current affairs and using this to inform debates on political issues with the aim of promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture.
DescriptionThis is a grant to Spaces for Change to support the tracking and documentation of civic space issues arising from the 2023 general elections, the Nigerian judiciary's contributions to these, and provide recommendations on appropriate responses.
DescriptionThrough narrative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and inter-newsroom collaborations, Viewfinder seeks to make complex findings accessible to audiences across the spectrum of South African news media consumers. This is a tie-off grant to Viewfinder to enable them to continue and expand their investigations into police abuses and impunity.
DescriptionTo support The Women's Legal Centre, a public interest litigation non-profit that works to create a South Africa in which women and people identifying as women are free from violence, empowered to ensure their own reproductive and health rights, free to own their own share of property, have a safe place to stay, and are empowered to work in a safe and equitable environment.
DescriptionTo support the Digital Africa Research Lab in addressing the threat posed by the misuse of social media in the 2019 Nigerian general election and post-election period.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)70,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionA project grant to Africa Uncensored (working in collaboration with Open Cities Lab and OdipoDev) to run an initiative called MyCandidate to help inform voters who they are able to vote for in their area with the aim of increasing informed participation.
DescriptionTo support InfoNet, which develops open source technologies that give individuals the ability to share public information, therefore improving government transparency and enabling communities to build social capital for democratic social action.
We recognise your right to privacy. Therefore, we limit the collection of personal data and strive to work only with organisations that do the same. We will never use your data for any other reason than the one you provided it for – and we will never pass it on without your permission.