Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support PIN, which is working as part of a cohort to strengthen the data and digital rights ecosystem in Nigeria. PIN will address threats and challenges to digital rights in Nigeria through a blend of: 1) building capacity of civil society actors; 2) supporting strategic litigation efforts; and 3) raising public awareness of digital and data rights more broadly.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)410,000
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a two year grant to Paradigm Initiative to support its core operations and programs around digital rights and digital inclusion in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide core operating support to Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative, a civic organisation working to promote citizens’ active participation in the Nigerian public audit through its Value for Money project to foster public accountability, good governance, and development of rural communities.
DescriptionTo support Partnership on AI's work to develop and share best practices; advance public understanding; provide an open and inclusive platform for discussion and engagement; and identify and foster aspirational efforts in AI for socially beneficial purposes.
DescriptionTo support Partnership on AI, a multi-stakeholder organisation that brings together academics, researchers, civil society organizations, companies building and utilising AI technology, and other groups working to better understand AI's impacts.
DescriptionPeri is a Brazil-born studio focused on creating films, docs and series that strategically push new mental models into the audience's imagination by tapping into well-known narrative archetypes.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAsia
Year 2023
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)102,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionThis grant will provide support to Perludem to build strong and solid CSO Coalition against election disinformation, and to coordinate multi-stakeholder forums that bridge collaboration of CSOs, social media platforms, and elections administrators to prevent and combat election disinformation in Indonesia.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support personaldata.io, an organisation committed to developing, supporting, and stewarding infrastructure that enables, accelerates, and maximises individual and collective empowerment around personal data.
DescriptionTo provide a project grant to PMI to, in collaboration with Buni Media, launch the first season of a news and political satire TV show in Kenya.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide core support to the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, which defends and supports whistleblowers, and conducts strategic litigation and advocacy on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens.
DescriptionThe Pop Culture Collaborative is committed to the advancement of just, authentic narratives of immigrants, communities of color, women, LGBTQ, and Muslims in pop culture with the purpose of creating a more equitable society. This grant supports the Collaborative in regranting to content creators, culture change strategists, and advocacy groups; sponsor audience engagement evaluation research; and grow the pop culture for social change field through convenings, events, and immersive learning sessions for practitioners and philanthropists.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide general operating support to Privacy International, an organisation building a global movement for the rights of citizens to privacy, contesting growing state surveillance and challenging data exploitation.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Privacy International, which advocates for the right to privacy for everyone, everywhere. Privacy International works to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from institutions who breach public trust.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Privacy International, which advocates for the right to privacy for everyone, everywhere. Privacy International raises awareness about technologies and laws that place privacy at risk, to ensure that the public is informed and engaged.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Privacy International, a global leader in policy, advocacy, and campaigns concerning the rights of citizens to privacy, especially state surveillance and the use of personal data in the public sphere.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeOne-Off Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support a project by Privacy International and Civic Hall entitled "That's Not Privacy!" to reorient the public conversation about online privacy and shift the practice of a large number of organisations with big online user bases and constituencies towards greater respect for actual privacy.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support PPDC's work on Open Contracting with State governments in Nigeria and enable them to continue to build take-up and usage of Open Contracting information for accountability.
DescriptionTo support the Public Benefit Journalism Research Centre, a group of journalists, media experts, funders, academics, and lawyers working together to research Public Benefit Journalism.
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