The open techDetector platform serves as a guide on the role of emerging technologies for sustainable development, a source of inspiration, and a capacity development tool for future technological literacy. As a tech foresight tool, the techDetector raises awareness of the implications of emerging technologies on sustainability and especially gender equality, assessing challenges and opportunities … Continued
2024-25 Scale-up project Presentation of the project CyberPeace Builders offers a powerful solution by turning corporate social responsibility into action, mobilizing cybersecurity experts for skills-based volunteering to protect NGOs. As nonprofits managing sensitive data and life-changing missions face escalating cyberattacks with limited resources, CyberPeace Builders steps in to provide free, expert-driven support across continents. … Continued
The Coral Reefs of the High Seas Coalition is a global alliance of multidisciplinary partners that aims to generate the science, political support, and strategic communication needed to protect coral reefs in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction, commonly known as the high seas. This is done by convening a coalition of leading scientists, explorers, policy … Continued
The project is a collaborative effort to protect and expand freedoms of assembly, association, and expression so citizens can influence leaders and hold them accountable. An open civic space is essential for accountability to human rights standards, development and inclusive decision making. As the global context shifts, the project has shifted to take address the … Continued
PRIMED is a three-year program that supports the development of healthier information ecosystems where public interest media content reaches people freely and widely in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone. The initiative addresses the challenges faced by local media and seeks to build their resilience to political and economic threats. A major component of the projects … Continued
Astroscale (AS) is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits — from low Earth orbit (LEO) to the geostationary orbit (GEO). AS is developing innovative and scalable solutions across … Continued
This project aims to end gender-based violence (GBV) and improve access to economic opportunities for women using an innovative behavior change (BC) methodology. It targets marginalized rural communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nepal to empower women in these communities to apply the behavior change methodology themselves. It runs from 2017 to 2022. Key partners are … Continued
Systemic gender, racial and intersectional bias sit at the heart of current Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making (ADM) processes. Inclusive AI is designed with inclusion at the core to create new opportunities and correct inequities. The initiative is focused on how new AI/ADM algorithms, models, networks, and systems can have a concrete positive impact … Continued
COVID-19 has simultaneously reduced revenues and increased the housework burden for Indigenous Women, while exposing their dire lack of access to essential services. This project will tackle the systemic socio-economic inequalities faced by Indigenous Women in Guatemala, Peru and Mexico. Rooted in intricate traditional textiles, it will weave an entrepreneurial fabric tailored to the post-COVID … Continued
The COVID19 outbreak has demonstrated that health crises can be important enablers for peace and ceasefire agreements. But the COVID19 outbreak also has the potential to act as a trigger for conflict by exacerbating existing fault lines in society and by increasing feelings of inequality. Health programs can contribute to peace as they can be … Continued
