In our interviews with organisers, journalists, communicators and campaigners, many have pointed out that imbalance has always been the norm.
Social Justice & Equity
Bridging the LGBTI digital divide
New report with ILGA World on how the digital divide impacts LGBTI individuals and organisations globally, and what’s needed to bridge it.
10 inspiring initiatives fighting online political violence against women in Latin America
A list of initiatives fighting online violence against women in politics in Latin America
Applying a climate justice lens to The Engine Room’s work
How can our work be explicitly supportive of climate justice?
Solidarity not solutionism: Digital infrastructure for the planet
A conversation around digital rights, climate and environmental justice.
Digital IDs rooted in justice – APGT and TER present A Digital ID Handbook for civil society
A few months ago, we published the findings of our research on civil society advocacy on digital ID systems across the globe. For this project, we spent a year working with a team of researchers in four countries (Indonesia, Jamaica, Pakistan, and Uganda), looking at how organised civil society actors seek to shape the design, […]
Takeaways from our Community Call on Responsible Data for Social Justice Organisations
In late June, as a part of our work with Ugandan organisation Albinism Umbrella, we hosted a Community Call about Responsible Data. Here are some of the insights that surfaced in the call.
New report: At the confluence of digital rights & climate justice
Read our new report about the intersections between digital rights and climate & environmental justice.
What we’ve learned through our support for organisations working on building digital communities
Our team has supported hundreds of social justice organisations to use tech and data. One clear trend we’ve seen over the years is a consistent interest in building online communities.
Takeaways from our community call on intersections between data & digital rights and social justice
We held a community call to discuss our newly-published research findings on intersectional collaboration.
Report: Intersectional approaches to data and digital rights advocacy during the pandemic
Read our research report exploring intersectional collaboration between social justice communities and data and digital rights (DDR) communities during the pandemic.
New report: Digital IDs rooted in justice
Read our new research report: Digital IDs Rooted in Justice – lived experiences and civil society advocacy towards better systems
Social justice + digital rights during Covid-19: barriers to collaboration
Barriers to collaboration between social justice groups and DDR groups.
Technology in the service of justice
How The Engine Room aspires to approach our own technical choices with an explicit focus on justice and anti-oppression.
Equity as practice in research: notes on our methodology for Tipping the Scales
How focusing on equity in our research methods played a huge part in making the process so rich and fruitful.
Report: Tipping the scales – what it takes to fund an equitable tech & human rights ecosystem
Research into equity in funding.
On power and inequity: reflections on funding and decision-making for tech and human rights
Challenges related to equity are everywhere, but they have specific repercussions for the tech and human rights ecosystem.
Shifting power and funding for resilience: thoughts on how we can achieve a more equitable tech and human rights ecosystem
Early reflections from our research exploring ways to build a more equitable technology and data for human rights ecosystem.
Deconstructing knowledge and power in our work
At The Engine Room we see decolonising as not only a process of freeing our minds from colonialism but also as a lens to reflect on our work, power and methodologies. Here are some of the ways we seek to commit to this in our work.
How we designed participatory research processes on digital ID
We take a closer look at what designing a participatory research framework actually looked like and what we’ve learned from the process.
What comes next? Building a resilient and accountable digital ecosystem
In the rush to convert to digital, we should keep a few important things in mind.
Report: Improving Access to Water Services in Sierra Leone
In 2017, we partnered with Code for Sierra Leone through our Matchbox Program to collaborate on a project that aimed to improve access to water in Sierra Leone through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Last month, we shared a blogpost detailing opportunities we identified, and highlighted the need to build upon existing local solutions. This […]