DescriptionThis project agreement will seek to strengthen Desinformante as a platform and specific connected initiatives that have a complementary role in monitoring and holding social media platforms accountable in Brazil's 2022 elections and the initial months of the new government.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAsia
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)203,430
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionA project grant focused on building the capacity of Indonesian civil society in defending digital rights through workshops and trainings, fostering and sustaining networks through advocacy and communication, building better understanding of the role of open technology to support civic actors, and enhancing civil society knowledge and communications.
DescriptionTo support Cidade Democratica, a revenue-generating non-profit that provides an open innovation platform designed for Brazilian users and municipal governments.
DescriptionA 2-year project grant to strengthen ESWA's capacity to understand and challenge social media platforms? lack of accountability to sex workers and adult content creators. This includes work on capacity building, research and evidence building, advocacy and campaigning, and building strategic partnerships.
DescriptionThis is a two-year project grant to support the team at All Protocols Observed (APO) to publish The Continent and build out its internal operations and team.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide core operating support to Premium Times Centre for Investigation (PTCIJ) and their efforts at improving Nigeria's investigative journalism landscape, promoting press freedom in Nigeria, and for the expansion of Dubawa, their factchecking platform.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support CISCSA in promoting the political participation of young women in local communities in Córdoba, Argentina, through a participatory diagnosis and research process, political training programs grounded in feminist popular education, and the creation of networks and alliances to amplify the voices of young women and ensure their inclusion in decision-making processes at the local level.
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 Démocratie 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.
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