Area of workInformation Ecosystems, Participation & Dissent
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)300,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionThis is a 24-month grant to support Scrolla's ambitions to establish Scrolla.Africa as the pre-eminent popular mobile news platform in South Africa, with the aim to expand its work into the rest of southern Africa, and later to create regional hubs in Nigeria and Kenya.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)400,000
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionA 2-year grant to Open Cities Lab to support core operations and program work. The broad aim of this grant will be to facilitate the provision of reliable information to citizens of various countries, especially Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, to enable participation in civic and political life.
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 purposeOther
DescriptionA two year grant to support the Forum on Information and Democracy expand its influence into new geographies outside Europe and build institutional capacity.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionSeed funding to support the establishment and implementation of Civic Compass, an initiative focusing on the intersection of technology, the internet and representative democracy in Latin America.
DescriptionA one-year project grant to support work on promoting freedom of expression and strengthening democratic culture through digitization and dissemination of visual representations of history and hosting sessions to engage the youth on themes arising.
DescriptionThis is a core operating grant support to the School of Politics, Policy, and Governance, a school that seeks to build a base and pipeline of a new value-based and disruptive thinking political class with the requisite knowledge and skills to solve complex problems of development.
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.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAfrica
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)350,000
Funding typeProject Agreement
Funding purposeProject Agreement
DescriptionTASCK is a creative company with access to a wide network of creative influencers across many fields, across Nigeria and Africa. They have engaged the creative space in Nigeria including the movie, music, art, fashion, etc. industries and worked to harness the the power of creatives for advocacy and social change.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProgram Grant
DescriptionTo strengthen Temblores's legal support for police violence victims, the Observatory on Police Violence and Global Network Against Police Violence.
DescriptionThe grant is to support the Citizens' project that will bring the skills and knowledge of filmmakers, academics, campaigners, lawyers, scientists and activists to the service of public interest journalism on issues around Big Tech.
DescriptionTo support The Engine Room, which does work to ensure that social justice movements can use technology and date in safe, responsible and strategic ways, while actively mitigating the vulnerabilities created by digital systems.
DescriptionLuminate's support to The Signals Network will fund the launch of its Tech Accountability Project (TAP) in Europe. The support will help The Signal Network expand its proven process and expertise in supporting whistleblowers and coordinating media investigations to the technology industry to Europe while also expanding its resources offering to empower more whistleblowers and show the impact whistleblowers make.
Area of workParticipation & Dissent, Information Ecosystems
Geographic focusAsia
Year 2022
Status Current Partner
Type
Non-Profit
Amount committed (US$)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.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeOther
DescriptionTo support Numun Fund, the first dedicated funding for feminist tech in, and for the Larger World, aka the Global South. Its aim is to seed and sustain feminist technology infrastructure for movement organising, understanding that digital technologies to be an important part of movement infrastructure.
DescriptionTo support a collaborative effort between Access Now and Observacom, addressing content moderation practices and aiming to guarantee user's freedom of expression online in Argentina.
DescriptionTo support ALT Advisory's work towards an effective digital and information rights landscape in South Africa and in the region more broadly.
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