DescriptionThis grant supports Bersih in seeking institutional reforms and to create common narratives and unite civil society and the public behind a common cause.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA two-year core grant to Hadis Initiative to support the continuation of the organisation's work to circumvent the prevalent factors of cultural barriers and skill gaps that impede access to, adoption of and ethical use of emerging advanced technologies.
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.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a one year final funding grant to Afrobarometer to support its data collection, management and storytelling on issues of technology and its intersection with social justice and human rights across Africa.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
DescriptionThis project funding will support Yayasan Hivos organise training of trainers, organization accompaniment, and mentorship on holistic safety and security.
DescriptionThis research grant renewal will extend the partnership between Luminate and UMass Amherst digital politics researchers to develop high-impact action research that supports global civil society to address information disorders across diverse national contexts.
DescriptionThe funding will be applied in institutional development (administrative, HR, and commercial capacity), community building, and technology enhancement and artificial intelligence.
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