Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support SERAP in building awareness around the Freedom of Information Act in Nigeria, to support citizens and civil society to make use of it, and to conduct strategic litigation to build jurisprudence around the right of the public to access information.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support SERAP, a non-profit which promotes transparency and accountability in Nigeria primarily by advocating for improved implementation of the Freedom of Information Act to enable the public and civil society to know, understand, and act on what government is doing.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionThis is a core grant to SERAP in support of their strategic litigation work to protect dissent and to expand the space for civic participation in Nigeria.
DescriptionThis is a grant to Spaces for Change to support the tracking and documentation of civic space issues arising from the 2023 general elections, the Nigerian judiciary's contributions to these, and provide recommendations on appropriate responses.
DescriptionThis is a grant to support Stears in building an election situation room which is designed to engage internet enabled Nigerians who want to follow the elections, an estimated audience of 33 million people.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support SNV in bringing together privacy advocates engaged in the surveillance debate with the open government community to establish a privacy policy framework with democratic legitimacy for any public institutions use of big and open data.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in comparing the US and the EU on their capabilities to address social, economic, and political challenges associated with AI.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in research and policy development on technology issues including data governance, fake news, and surveillance.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide general support to Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV), a non-profit think tank based in Berlin working on bringing tech companies, government, and civil society together on policy proposals on the intersection of technology and public policy such as the impact of AI, intelligence oversight on surveillance, and disinformation in political campaigns.
DescriptionLuminate supports the early stage development of Studio Citizen, a new Studio that integrates journalism into impact-driven nonfiction storytelling.
DescriptionTo provide additional funds to support independent filmmakers and finalise the ongoing evaluation of the Sundance Institute | Luminate Fund.
DescriptionTo create the Sundance Institute | Luminate Fund, which provides non-recoupable grants to independent artists working across documentary, narrative, episodic, and emerging media projects that address the areas in which Luminate strives to have impact.
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 support an annual event organised by the Sunlight Foundation at which various communities of activists, government, NGOs, technologists, and others share their knowledge, challenges, and engagements in open government, transparency, and accountability efforts.
DescriptionA 3-year unrestricted grant to support Superrr Lab?s work to develop visions and projects to create more equitable futures by researching technologies, building networks, and shaping new narratives. LSI is particularly interested in their work 1) opening up the tech debate to those most affected by digital technologies, including forming new networks and alliances beyond tech and, 2) replacing innovation narratives with sustainability, equity and inclusion, including providing a forum to build consensus between civil society organisations, establish points of action and present shared narratives.
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.
DescriptionAn 18-month project grant to support research mapping on how technology causes harm to marginalised communities in Europe. The grant will support Systemic Justice to 1) develop bespoke non-extractive methodological approaches to research / investigate the harms experienced by marginalised communities across Europe and 2) publish the main mapping report and develop additional related outputs.
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