We partnered with the Open Society Justice Initiative to research how legal empowerment actors worldwide are using technology to give people information about the law, connect them with legal advice, and provide them with legal services.
This blog post was co-written by Zosia Sztykowski, Project Lead, OpenOwnership and Tom Walker, Research Manager, The Engine Room. It originally appeared on the Open Government Partnership stories blog. In recent years, we’ve seen significant progress on clamping down on the abuse of anonymous company ownership through beneficial ownership transparency, both from international bodies like […]
we’re launching a guide to help funders think about how to have better conversations about responsible data
Tensions, challenges & ways forward for funders to adopt responsible data collection, storage and sharing practices.
Learnings from our report on the use and impact of technology in case management in Indonesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Sierra Leone, and South Africa, informed by interviews with a range of civil society organizations, technologists, and government representatives.
This post was written by Tom Walker and Fieke Jansen, with input from Rachel Rank and Lorena Klos. For many human rights funders, communicating clearly about the activities they fund (and why they are valuable) is an important part of their work. Indeed, funders often favour transparency on principle as an inherent good. How can […]
We want to understand why funders share data, how they share it, and the challenges they face in doing so responsibly. We’ll be surveying a wide range of people and interviewing funders about their experiences, with the ultimate goal of producing a framework that can help them to make informed decisions.
This post was originally published on the Making All Voices Count blog.
We’ve just finished working with a partner to create an introductory guide to investigative web research. As part of our aim to encourage shared, open documentation about the use of technology in social change, we’re publishing it so that other people can use it too. The guide is designed for researchers, activists and journalists who […]
We created Alidade – an interactive guide that helps social change organisations ask the questions that can help them decide what kind of technology tool would fit with their project.
Messaging apps are the fastest growing form of digital communication ever, with smartphone ownership rising rapidly around the world and messaging becoming many people’s favourite way to communicate. But what does this mean for humanitarian organisations? Our new research report, produced in partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the messaging […]
Do you work at an organisation that focuses on rainforest issues, land rights and indigenous rights?
How can social change organisations influence companies to do the right thing for the environment? One way is to influence the people and organisations who invest in them. For example, Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) has successfully made the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), adopt tropical deforestation as a priority issue in reducing […]
How can social change organisations influence companies to do the right thing for the environment? One way is to influence the people and organisations who invest in them.
Today, we’re launching our research into how transparency and accountability initiatives in Kenya and South Africa choose digital technology tools. We’re publishing it all on this microsite: https://toolselect.theengineroom.org. To find out more about what’s in it, read on: