As the climate crisis deepens, influenced by extractive Big Tech infrastructures, groups from the Majority World impacted by these technologies are developing small, resource-efficient, community-centered climate solutions to pressing environmental challenges. Over the next year, we will center those groups in a full-cycle initiative exploring how locally driven, climate resilient AI technologies are designed and developed, and how they can be adopted in care-based and responsible ways.
New Project
Strengthening Data Sovereignty for Indigenous Communities in Kenya through Community-based Monitoring Systems
We are excited to welcome the Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT) to our 2026 Matchbox Program. IMPACT champions Indigenous rights and self-determination in Kenya.
Building responsible technology and data practices with narrative change in Brazil
We’re excited to welcome Instituto Lamparina to our Matchbox Program this year. Based in Brazil, Lamparina is building narrative power to strengthen democracy through a gender, racial, and climate justice lens, and we’re thrilled to collaborate with them over the coming months.
Help Us Map Responses to Tech-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence Affecting Young Women and LGBTIQ+ Activists
We are excited to share that we are starting a new project in partnership with the Numun Fund to map organizations and community responses addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), specifically intimate partner violence (IPV) affecting girls, young women and LGBTIQ+ activists in the Majority World.
Re-homing the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT)
Beginning in 2025 The Engine Room will be hosting and maintaining the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) in our support programming.
Announcing our two new Matchbox partners
We’re excited to welcome two partners to our Matchbox Program this year: Trans Youth Initiative-Uganda (TYI-Uganda) and TechHer.
New project: Working towards a healthier and more robust information ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean
We’re excited to share that we’re starting a new project aimed at contributing to a healthy and robust information ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Healthy and responsible data management with EVA Nigeria
This month we kicked off our collaboration with Education as a Vaccine (EVA), a Nigeria-based organisation working on improving the health and development of children and young people in the country.
Stronger digital infrastructures with CIPESA
Learn about our collaboration with the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA).
[CLOSED] Applications are open! Learn how to bring a responsible data approach to your work with our cohort-learning programme
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The amount of data available about almost anything is growing, but if it’s not collected, processed and used in thoughtful and critical ways, the data increases risk of harm – especially to marginalised communities. Today we are launching a pilot of our new cohort learning programme: a collaborative course aimed to equip social justice leaders […]
New project: strengthening our digital resilience
We are starting a 3-year project to examine and strengthen our own digital resilience and, in doing so, increase our capacity to support others.
Creating resilient infrastructures with HRFN
We are thrilled to be partnering with the Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) on their journey to strengthen their organisational security.
Reimagining digital ID systems rooted in justice
We are starting a new project to reimagine digital ID systems rooted in justice. Join our community calls to share what’s happening around digital ID in your community.
Strengthening intersectional approaches to Covid-19 data and digital rights advocacy
For this project, we are looking at how social justice communities are faring in terms of data and digital rights in relation to the pandemic.
New research on the ethical implications of predictive analytics for children’s outcomes
In collaboration with UNICEF, we are starting a new research project to assess the use of predictive analytics for children.
Research on AI & SAR for education in emergencies
Over the past several years, we’ve seen artificial intelligence (AI) technologies play an increasingly integrated role in different parts of our society, including in humanitarian and social justice settings. While certain types of AI may hold the potential to increase the efficiency and impact of organisations working in these sectors, there is still a lot […]
What does it take to fund + build a more equitable tech and human rights ecosystem?
It will come as no surprise to many activists, organisations and grantmakers that there are large asymmetries of power in our community. Current funding models are seen to further entrench this imbalance, but we believe it doesn’t have to be this way. We’ve witnessed a great deal of willingness and interest on all sides to […]
Re-using open contracting tools: Join the community call on 10 July
Join the call at 6pm CEST/12 noon EST on July 10 by going to https://www.uberconference.com/theengineroom. It’s audio only and you’re welcome to listen in or bring your questions! We’re excited to share that we’ve begun a new research project and invite you to contribute or learn more in a community call! In this project, we […]
Announcing our new research project: developing responsible data guidelines with GIZ
From now until late August, we will collaborate with the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to develop responsible data guidelines that will help GIZ field staff better advise partners on the potential harms and ethical challenges that arise when working with data.
Community Call & New Research Project on Biometric Technologies
We are currently working with Oxfam on a research project to inform a responsible approach to the use of biometric technology in Oxfam’s programmatic work, and are excited to open up a broader conversation about biometric technologies with a community call on 24 January 2018!