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.
Tom Walker
Tom is a former member of The Engine Room team.
Can beneficial ownership transparency really be compatible with data protection?
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 […]
Sharing Data Responsibly: A conversation guide for human rights funders
we’re launching a guide to help funders think about how to have better conversations about responsible data
Reflections on our upcoming Responsible Data conversation guide for human rights funders
Tensions, challenges & ways forward for funders to adopt responsible data collection, storage and sharing practices.
How small data can improve access to justice for the poor
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.
Responsible data considerations for sharing human rights data – what do we already know?
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 […]
Sharing data responsibly – how and why do human rights funders share data?
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.
Using what we know: How to ensure tech projects meet the brief
This post was originally published on the Making All Voices Count blog.
Announcing our new guide to investigative web research
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 […]
Alidade: an interactive tool to help you bring technology strategically into your project
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.
Announcing our new research on humanitarian futures for messaging apps
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 […]
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Our New Primer on Using Tech to Monitor Rainforests and Forest Peoples’ Rights
Do you work at an organisation that focuses on rainforest issues, land rights and indigenous rights?
Using Data on Rainforests to Influence Investors: Our New Quick-Start Guide
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 […]
Using Data on Rainforests to Influence Investors: Our New Quick-Start Guide
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.
If the tool fits… launching our research on how transparency and accountability initiatives choose technology tools
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: