DescriptionTo provide a renewal grant to WOLA to support its work fostering civil society efforts in the region that seek to build democratic governance, attack systemic corruption, defend human rights, secure peace, and promote equity, especially in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico.
DescriptionTo support running a network of rights and justice NGOs, movements, lawyers, and academics to monitor the state of emergency in France during COVID-19.
DescriptionA 2-year project grant to support VoxPublic to convene, facilitate, and coordinate a network of digital and non-digital civil society organisations in France to increase pressure on social media companies by questioning their business model and toxic practices regarding discrimination, spread of hate speech, and disinformation. VoxPublic will convene stakeholders to build knowledge and analysis, centre people who experience harm by social media platforms and other injustices, and campaign.
DescriptionTo support VoteRunLead, a nonpartisan organisation focused on increasing women's political representation at the local and state level in the U.S.
DescriptionThrough narrative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and inter-newsroom collaborations, Viewfinder seeks to make complex findings accessible to audiences across the spectrum of South African news media consumers. This is a tie-off grant to Viewfinder to enable them to continue and expand their investigations into police abuses and impunity.
DescriptionThe proposed project grant will support the Victory Institute in strengthening the network and skills of LGBTQI+ leaders across Latin America; producing a two-volume research on the regional situation of the political participation of LGBTQI+ persons; and developing institutional capacity and resilience of the LGBTQI+ movement in Brazil.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeDebt: Convertible (Seed)
DescriptionTo support Versa, a for-profit civic startup developing digital products to deliver engaging, factual information to citizens through partnerships with online publishers, with the aim to increase transparency and foster citizen participation on local issues.
DescriptionTo support SwiftRiver, a free and open source platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time. It offers organisations an easy way to combine natural language/artificial intelligence process, data-mining for SMS and Twitter, and verification algorithms for different sources of information.
DescriptionTo support Ushahidi, a social enterprise that provides software and services to numerous sectors and civil society to help improve the bottom up flow of information.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeFund
DescriptionTo provide funding to Urban Innovation Fund, a venture fund focused on identifying early-stage innovators disrupting entrenched industries, and providing them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued and impactful companies.
DescriptionTo provide unrestricted core support for Upturn's work to promote equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology.
DescriptionThis grant will help Uplift launch a major public enquiry in Ireland on the role of Big Tech in Irish society and its failure in holding these companies to account in protecting all Europeans' data and digital rights.
DescriptionThis 2-year project grant will support the Hope and Courage Collective to grow an emergent ecosystem across civil society in Ireland at the intersections of tackling threats to democracy, the exponential rise of the far-right and the role of social media platforms in amplifying hate, discrimination, mis- and disinformation and thus exacerbating harms and negatively impacting democracy. This grant will help them to support an ecosystem so that it is better connected, more aligned, and better able to work together.
DescriptionTo educate Spanish-speaking audiences on how to identify misinformation and disinformation related to the 2020 census and election, and will also help identify and debunk disinformation aimed at reducing Latino-participation in these events.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the Civic Tech Innovation Network, a community of practice based at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa that aims to advance research, learning, and application in the field of civic tech in southern Africa.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo support the Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. CTIN is a community of practice and a learning network of civic tech practitioners in South Africa, currently hosted as a programme of the Journalism and Media Department.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAsia
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)266,450
Funding typeGrant: US Public Charity
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionA grant to a research coalition based in the University of Massachusetts Amherst that aims to support original research, develop policy advocacy, and provide capacity-building on technology accountability in/from the global South.
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