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.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionIn Sri Lanka, tech platforms have been exploited and weaponised by a range of actors for ethno-political gain. This project will investigate the role of tech platforms on election outcomes, and the impact it has on generating fear and inciting violence against minorities and oppositional voices. The project will also focus on advocacy for tech platforms to do more to remove bad actors and harmful/dangerous content.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo provide a seed investment in HiviSasa.com, an online Kenyan newspaper that provides local, county level news tailored for the mobile web.
DescriptionA project grant to enhance the Court and Judges' expertise on Freedom of Expression online and to carry out research on protection of data privacy in the judicial system.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support the Vladimir Herzog Institute (IVH), a Brazilian civil society organisation founded in 2010, which seeks to defend the values of Democracy, Human Rights, and Freedom of Expression.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusGlobal
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)200,000
Funding typeGrant: US Public Charity
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionResearch-based Online Violence Early Warning System (EWS) by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the University of Sheffield designed to detect, predict, and ultimately help prevent the escalation of online abuse, harassment, and attacks against women journalists - online and offline.
DescriptionTo support JoinPolitics, a new organisation and fund in Germany with a mission to seed capital for political talents. JoinPolitics empowers political talent and teams (individuals who want to run for office, or teams who want to work on specific political issues/projects) to develop and implement innovative solutions to the big political challenges of our times.
DescriptionThis is a project agreement to support the work of Kamara, an organization that works to advance the safety of the global ecosystem of civil society organizations and movements, and to provide tailored protection tactics for its partners. The focus of this opportunity is Kamara's Strategic Initiatives Centre (SIC), an experimental initiative to support civil society in the Global Majority by providing investigation-based insights to inform both their protection and advancement of missions.
DescriptionTo carry out strategic litigation for online freedom of expression cases and strengthen the capacity of legal aid lawyers in handling public cases.
DescriptionThis is a project agreement to Migration Tech Monitor's fellowship initiative, which incubates projects that 1) document the impact of technology and surveillance on mobile communities, 2) challenge the use and development of repressive border tools, or 3) build alternative security tech infrastructure and narratives designed by people with lived experience of migration. With this project, Luminate aims to explore how technologies used in border controls and border externalisation inform the use of repressive tech in society at large.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo support NextRequest, which streamlines the public records request process with a user-friendly, cloud-supported digital portal that makes it easier for civil servants to respond to the public.
DescriptionTo support Open the Government, an organisation that provides a platform for the community of open government-focused NGOs in the U.S. to collaborate on issues of shared importance.
DescriptionTo support the Run-To-Win initiative that aims to increase the capacity and chances of youths in Nigeria to participate and get voted into elected offices.
DescriptionThis project funding will support Purple Code carrying out legal assistance, tech and psycho-social assistance to victims of online gender-based violence.
DescriptionBy combining their skills in production, training, research and audience growth this grant is structured as a two year grant to support Radio Workshop in partnership with Africapodfest continue in its mission to train and mentor budding African podcasters to tell nuanced and impactful stories about Africa with the hopes of widening and deepening the conversations on issues that matter.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionAn 18-month grant to support the Forum on Information and Democracy, to continue building its institutional capacity and expand its activities and partnerships in the Global South.
DescriptionTo support the Open Data Charter, a project of the Fund for the City of New York. The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of principles.
DescriptionThis is an 18-month grant to prototype an 18-month experiment in resourcing, documenting and potentially scaling methods to tackle harmful narratives as they relate to authoritarianism and securitization, which also considering how they intersect with AI and Big Tech.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo support SeeClickFix, a web and mobile platform to enable citizens to report non-emergency issues, such as potholes, graffiti, abandoned vehicles or property, to their cities in order to improve service delivery and citizen engagement with local government.
DescriptionA two year project agreement to Stears to; Support the flagship product - African Elections Monitor, of the Data for Storytelling Program. Utilise cutting-edge technologies such as real-time satellite imagery and interactive data visualisation technologies to share knowledge with and train independent media organisations within Luminate's existing portfolio on data visualisation
DescriptionTo support TCID in curating and distributing research-based and credible content on digital rights, digital democracy, and other socio-political issues in Indonesia.
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