Project Grant STW20024GR0019

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,975,308 from the Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor establishes an Indo-Pacific Center in Taiwan to counter digital authoritarianism and bolster resilience to disinformation in Indo-Pacific countries. The Center will operate from September 30, 2022 through March 29, 2025. Freedom House, Inc. will deliver services under the award as a sub-awardee. The Center directly supports the goals of the Department's International Programs to...

The Department of State Office of the Secretary of State awarded a $2.5 million Cooperative Agreement to the American Bar Association Fund For Justice And Education to build capacity of foreign researchers, journalists, and civil society actors to counter the use of coercive legal instruments by the People's Republic of China and/or the Chinese Communist Party to limit freedom of expression. This award, made under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) on September 30, 2022 for completion...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports a multi-method, interdisciplinary, and transnational study to explore the role of big tech companies in the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the implications for democracy, governance, and public trust. The research team from the University of Pennsylvania will assess corporate influence over AI strategies through a combination of...

This Project Grant award of $924,053.50 from the U.S. Department of State's Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665) is designed to enhance the capacities of ESCAP member states to provide robust governance, regulatory, and policy environments related to open radio access network (Open RAN) and other emerging technologies. The grant, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will be executed by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN...

The Department of State's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) awarded a $200,000 project grant to Doublethink Lab, a non-profit organization based in Taiwan. The grant is to implement a comprehensive research project analyzing foreign information manipulation (FIM) in the Republic of Korea (ROK) and strengthen local capacity to counter these threats. The project period runs from September 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. This grant award supports U.S. foreign policy goals by informing and...

This $2,925,000.00 Cooperative Agreement, awarded on October 1, 2024 by the U.S. Department of State under the Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CFDA 19.665) Federal Grant Program, is intended to build capacity for responsible, inclusive, and rights-respecting approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) at and around multilateral fora. The primary awardee, Meridian International Center, will leverage existing work from UN entities like UNESCO, OHCHR, ITU, and UNDP to support engagement with target...

The Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor awarded a $1.15 million Project Grant to China Digital Times Inc. under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor federal grant program (CFDA 19.345) for the period of September 1, 2022 through September 30, 2024. The purpose of this award is to increase access to independent and online reporting from censored Chinese voices, as well as amplify access to reliable news and information about China...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the FPF Education And Innovation Foundation on September 30, 2024. The award, funded through the Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665), aims to increase the capacity of partner countries to develop, adopt, and implement legal frameworks that protect individual data privacy, while educating key stakeholders and enabling trusted cross-border data flows and digital...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $579,121 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to investigate, design, analyze, and deploy proactive techniques to fight against internet suppression. The overarching goal of this 3-year project is to create novel, adaptive approaches to defeat internet suppression, which continues to be a significant global threat to freedom of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) provides $826,361 to Georgetown University to conduct research that develops novel approaches to support Public Interest Technology (PIT) organizations in deploying data safeguards to build ethical and responsible AI systems. The project will: (1) use ethnographic methods to identify socio-technical challenges at PIT organizations, (2) create and evaluate participatory...