General Purposes

About this grant

This grant provides funding to an organization whose goals include advancing digital freedoms, supporting progressive digital policies and building community activists’ capacity and digital resilience. To achieve this, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa plans to provide thought leadership, information and connections to create an enabling environment for civil society organizations in the digital space. Planned activities include conducting research that informs practice, building a digital rights community of practice, working with other organizations to build the capacity of digital rights institutions to engage effectively with existing policies and providing small grants to new and fledgling digital rights groups. The grantee was established in 2004 to respond to the lack of timely and accessible information on technology-related issues. While the organization’s focus was originally on East and Southern Africa, programming has expanded across the continent in recognition of the existing gaps, and has staff based in Uganda, Kenya and Cameroon.