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.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Convertible (Seed)
DescriptionTo support Versa, a for-profit civic startup developing digital products to deliver engaging, factual information to citizens through partnerships with online publishers, with the aim to increase transparency and foster citizen participation on local issues.
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 purposeOther
DescriptionTo support Numun Fund, the first dedicated funding for feminist tech in, and for the Larger World, aka the Global South. Its aim is to seed and sustain feminist technology infrastructure for movement organising, understanding that digital technologies to be an important part of movement infrastructure.
DescriptionTo support the further development, adoption, and consolidation of an International Open Data Charter, which sets out principles to guide the creation and implementation of open data policies and initiatives of governments.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo strengthen Temblores's legal support for police violence victims, the Observatory on Police Violence and Global Network Against Police Violence.
DescriptionTo support Buni Media, a Kenyan non-profit producing creative digital content challenging the country's socio-political status quo including the XYZ Show.
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.
DescriptionLuminate's investment in AzMina will support its main tech projects and its institutional strengthening to enhance policy processes, strategies, governance and management, providing greater sustainability to the organization's activities over the long term.
DescriptionTo fund the Omidyar Network-MIT Collaboration for Impact Assessment, a project to test theories of change for organisations in the government transparency sector.
DescriptionThis is a renewal grant to support the work of Accountability Counsel, focused on (1) supporting communities to use the non-judicial accountability offices tied to international investment through case support to achieve community goals; (2) policy advocacy to improve the system; and (3) research to understand the field.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a two year pilot grant to support AfroBarometer train local civil society organisations in data collection, management and story telling using data and pilot tools to get perspectives on youth across Africa.
DescriptionTo support Asylum Access' Global Systems Change work which seeks to transform the refugee system into one that is led and influenced by refugees and host communities, and that prioritises efforts that defend refugee rights and secure access to services.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support The Big Debate, a townhall debate TV show produced by the Black Stripe Foundation that provides a unique platform for public engagement that helps to promote informed discussion and accountability on critical topics.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA two-year unrestricted sunset grant to the Black Stripe Foundation to support the production of the Big Debate - a popular TV show that brings together civil society, state actors and the general public to discuss issues of national interest to South Africans.
DescriptionTo support Procurement Nigeria (BudgIT), a social enterprise focused on using technology to drive civic participation and fiscal transparency in Nigeria.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a general operating support renewal grant for CANVAS, an organisation focused on: 1) enhancing the effectiveness and safety of democratic movements as they challenge repressive powers and; 2) supporting the transition of movements who are effective in dissenting into building its long-term positive visions.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide core operating support to Connected Development, to support their work to empower citizens in Nigeria to participate in holding government accountable for public spending.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a core grant to support Connected Development's programmatic work around participation in civic and political life, and operations in support of these programmes.
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