DescriptionTo provide additional funds to support independent filmmakers and finalise the ongoing evaluation of the Sundance Institute | Luminate Fund.
DescriptionTo support the Sunlight Foundation in funding a multi-party effort to explore the merit and feasibility of an Open Data Charter, an initiative that would examine and develop policies and resources that countries could use to build meaningful new open data reforms.
DescriptionTo fund specialised engineering and design services from Swish Labs, delivered to Robhat Labs, which is building a user-facing software that detects and labels automated and spam accounts on Twitter.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Tactical Tech Collective, an organisation that works globally to help transparency and accountability activists, citizen journalists, and human rights advocates use information and technology effectively in their work.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the work of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) on global corporate tax reform
DescriptionTo support the AI Now Institute at New York University. The AI Now Institute is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence across four key domains: rights and liberties, labour and automation, bias and inclusion, and safety and critical infrastructure.
DescriptionThe grant is to support the Citizens' project that will bring the skills and knowledge of filmmakers, academics, campaigners, lawyers, scientists and activists to the service of public interest journalism on issues around Big Tech.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Other
DescriptionIn 2018, Luminate invested $950,000 as a convertible loan in The Correspondent to finance its crowdfunding campaign that would enable it to launch its operations. This refinancing focused on helping The Correspondent meet its operating cash requirements. Ultimately The Correspondent was not able to sustain its operations and shut down in December 2020.
DescriptionTo support The Engine Room, which does work to ensure that social justice movements can use technology and date in safe, responsible and strategic ways, while actively mitigating the vulnerabilities created by digital systems.
DescriptionTo support The Gov Lab in its mission to strengthen the ability of institutions and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems.
DescriptionTo support GovLab's Data programme, especially its work on open data impact, open data demand, data stewards, data collaboratives, and its work to coordinate the International Open Data Conference's research symposium.
DescriptionTo provide unrestricted funding to The Markup, a non-profit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionThis is a project grant to help TNH advance their mission to create a model of decolonised journalism, a key component of their five-year strategy (2022-2026), then to provide practical insights and thought leadership to the wider sector of international journalism on the subject. More specifically, TNH's efforts will focus on creating content that is more inclusive and guided by the communities they serve, in order to better represent the issues that matter to them. In addition to nuturing talent from the Global South, TNH will also seek to create guidance based on their own and others' experience and by providing fora and a platform for awareness-raising and discussion.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusGlobal
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)100,000
Funding typeGrant: US Public Charity
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionThis grant is to support survivors and victims of disinformation campaigns in Syria to directly advocate to policymakers and tech companies about the harm caused by disinformation attacks and the need for Tech regulation.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the University of Oxford to support the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Programme. The programme investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation, and politics.
DescriptionTo support the Transparency & Accountability Initiative, a donor collaborative including Luminate, Open Society Foundations, Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and DFID.
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