Meet the Winners
Join us in celebrating our winners and their transformative solutions designed to drive us toward a more equitable data economy.
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$100,000
Winner
Ada Lovelace Institute
COVID-19 exposed the cracks in the data governance ecosystem: companies possess the bulk of the world’s data, and the means to extract its value...
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Headquarters:
London
/
England
$100,000
Winner
Association Eticas Research and Innovation
Through external auditing, this team aims to reverse-engineer AI systems to demystify “black boxes” and expose bias...
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Headquarters:
Barcelona
/
Spain
$100,000
Winner
Datasphere Initiative
Through awareness and engagement campaigns, Datasphere Initiative will assert rights for a more equitable data economy by boldly leveraging under-represented youth voices in the centers of data...
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Headquarters:
Genève
/
Switzerland
$100,000
Winner
Derechos Digitales
Derechos Digitales will build a new imagination of data that includes the experiences and narratives of underrepresented groups from Latin America...
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Headquarters:
Santiago
/
Chile
$100,000
Winner
Open Environmental Data Project
The Community Data Hub (CDH) prototype aims to increase data usability for environmental governance...
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Headquarters:
New York, NY
/
USA
$100,000
Winner
OpenMined
Researchers will study data remotely across thousands of these servers/orgs with instant results...
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Headquarters:
Walnut, CA
/
USA
$100,000
Winner
PersonalData.IO
PersonalData.IO provides resources to the youth to recover their data power and reuse it in new creative ways...
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Headquarters:
Genève
/
Switzerland
$100,000
Winner
Stichting Global Voices
This project aims to identify and understand the discourse on data used for governance and control, and policy in El Salvador, Brazil, Türkiye, Sudan, and India...
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Headquarters:
Amsterdam
/
Netherlands
$100,000
Winner
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, Inc. (STOP)
STOP fights to abolish local governments’ systems of mass surveillance...
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Headquarters:
New York, NY
/
USA
$100,000
Winner
suma
The suma platform applies community organizing principles to data, transforming personal data from a dispersed resource outsiders extract to an organized resource the community controls...
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Headquarters:
Portland, OR
/
USA
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$20,000
Winner
Ashoka Innovators for the Public
Make profiling expensive through new policies (taxes/fines) against the indiscriminate use of human behavioral data...
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Headquarters:
Arlington, VA
/
USA
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$20,000
Winner
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
Too many companies trick people into accepting cookies. This team will develop a new, GDPR-aligned, UX standard...
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Headquarters:
Ewing, New Jersey
/
USA
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$20,000
Winner
Tech Matters
Terraso is an open-source platform of tools that redefines data ownership and accessibility...
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Headquarters:
Palo Alto, CA
/
USA
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$20,000
Winner
UCLA Department of Theater
Named Data Networking updates the Internet’s fundamental protocols to enable applications like “the metaverse” ...
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Headquarters:
Los Angeles, CA
/
USA
Promising Solutions
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$20,000
Winner
United Nations Foundation, Inc.
This project will organize dialogues between funders and their grantees...
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Headquarters:
Washington, DC
/
USA
