DescriptionTo support the Global Press Institute in its mission to train and employ local journalists to produce ethical, accurate news coverage from the world's least-covered places.
DescriptionTo support Global Voices, a "citizen media platform" that seeks to find and publish the most compelling and important stories coming from marginalised and misrepresented communities.
DescriptionTo support Global Voices, a "citizen media platform" that seeks to find and publish the most compelling and important stories coming from marginalised and misrepresented communities.
DescriptionTo provide funding for a Guardian Activate conference in Africa, which seeks to increase collaboration among players in media, technology, civil society, and business in order to improve both the quantity and quality of civic innovation in South Africa as well as other countries in the region.
DescriptionTo support Herdict, the Berkman Center's crowdsourcing platform for providing insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of website accessibility.
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.
DescriptionTo co-sponsor a one-day event in London in September 2011, themed Technology for Development, that showcases the role of technology in social change in the developing world.
DescriptionTo support the International Budget Partnership's pilot project to develop a real-time survey tool that would automatically provide information on the transparency of budgets in countries around the world.
DescriptionTo support the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), a muti-stakeholder programme of the International Budget Partnership addressing challenges in fiscal transparency and participation.
DescriptionTo support the Internews Rapid Response Fund, which is providing funding to small, local news organisations worldwide in the face of COVID-19.
DescriptionTo support Lateral Economics's research intended to quantify the economic value of open data, for the purpose of supporting policy recommendations in G20 meetings.
DescriptionTo support the Leadership Academy for Development, a programme at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, which is designed to train government officials and business leaders from developing countries to promote private sector development through public policy.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo provide support for a new fund providing financial and human capital support to grow the nascent technology for transparency and accountability sector, globally.
DescriptionTo fund the Omidyar Network-MIT Collaboration for Impact Assessment, a project to test theories of change for organisations in the government transparency sector.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Other
DescriptionTo support MDIF, a non-profit mission-driven investment fund that supports primarily for-profit independent news outlets in countries with a history of media oppression.
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