Freedom House
j Gregory Barton2022-06-17T13:18:38+00:00Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
Freedom House is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to create a world where all are free. We inform the world about threats to freedom, mobilize global action, and support democracy’s defenders. | Site Link
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MTN Group
j Gregory Barton2022-06-17T13:36:26+00:00MTN Group
Launched in 1994, the MTN Group is a leading emerging market operator with a clear vision to lead the delivery of a bold new digital world to our customers. We are inspired by our belief that everyone deserves the benefits of a modern […]
Eduardo Bertoni
j Gregory Barton2022-05-25T19:16:57+00:00
Eduardo Bertoni
Professor Eduardo Bertoni (PhD, Buenos Aires University) is currently the Representative of the Regional Office for South America of the Inter American Institute of Human Rights. He was the first Director of the Access to Public […]
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:22:00+00:00Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
The Berkman Klein Center’s mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. | Site Link
Joined: 2008
Uber
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T16:38:17+00:00Uber
Uber is a global app-based platform that offers services such as ride-hailing, food delivery, package delivery, bicycle and scooter rentals, and freight transportation and logistics. | Site Link
Joined as Observer: 2021
BNP Paribas Asset Management
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T00:22:30+00:00BNP Paribas Asset Management
BNP Paribas Asset Management is the investment management arm of BNP Paribas, one of the world’s major financial institutions. Managing over USD 450 billion of assets as at 31 December 2018, we offer a comprehensive range of active, passive and quantitative investment solutions covering a broad spectrum of […]
Bolo Bhi
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:22:44+00:00Bolo Bhi
Bolo Bhi means ‘Speak up,’ in Urdu. It is a not-for-profit geared towards advocacy, policy and research in the areas of Internet access, government transparency, legislation, digital security, privacy, gender rights and empowerment. | Site Link
Joined: 2013
Boston Common Asset Management
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:22:56+00:00Boston Common Asset Management
Boston Common Asset Management is an investment manager and a leader in global sustainability initiatives. We specialize in long-only equity and balanced strategies and pursue long-term capital appreciation by seeking to invest in diversified portfolios of high quality, socially responsible stocks. | Site Link
Joined: 2008
BT
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:23:04+00:00BT
BT’s purpose is to use the power of communications to make a better world. One of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in 180 countries, its principal activities include providing networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to its customers for use at home, at work and […]
Calvert Research and Management
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:23:13+00:00Calvert Research and Management
Calvert Research and Management has one of the largest teams of sustainability research analysts in the U.S. Each analyst specializes by social issue and sector. In addition to evaluating companies for inclusion in the Calvert portfolios, the analysts are active in encouraging companies to improve through our shareholder advocacy strategies.| […]
Center for Democracy & Technology
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:23:27+00:00Center for Democracy & Technology
CDT is a champion of global online civil liberties and human rights, driving policy outcomes that keep the internet open, innovative, and free.| Site Link
Joined: 2008
Centre for Internet & Society
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:23:52+00:00Centre for Internet & Society
The Centre for Internet & Society, based in Bangalore, India, is an independent, non-profit, research organization which is involved in research on the emerging field of the Internet and its relationship to the society. CIS brings together scholars, academics, students, programmers and scientists to engage in a large variety of Internet issues. […]
Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Información (CELE)
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:24:00+00:00Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión (CELE)
The Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) was founded in 2009 at the Palermo University Law School with the objective to provide rigorous research and studies to sectors of civil society, journalists, government institutions and the academic community that are dedicated to […]
Change.org 2018/03/12 at 3:16 pm
Rocio Campos2022-01-12T00:24:11+00:00Change.org is an open-platform operating globally. It is the largest platform for social change hosting petitions started by the public from around the world.| Site Link
Joined: 2021
Centre for Communications Governance at National Law University, Delhi
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:23:35+00:00Centre for Communication Governance
The Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) is an academic research centre established in 2013 by the National Law University, Delhi. CCG is the only academic research centre dedicated to protecting digital rights in India through rigorous academic research and capacity building. The centre has been very influential in critical debates in India […]
Church of Sweden
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T00:25:08+00:00Church of Sweden
The Church of Sweden holds investments of around $760 million that are managed according to principles of responsible investment. Given the Church’s long-standing work on human rights, the intersection between business and human rights has become a natural focus area during corporate dialogues with companies in which the Church holds shares. | […]
CIPESA
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T00:25:20+00:00CIPESA
The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) was established in 2004 under the Catalysing Access to Information and Communications Technology in Africa (CATIA) initiative, which was mainly funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID). CIPESA works to promote effective and inclusive ICT policy and […]
Cloudflare
Rocio Campos2022-01-12T00:25:54+00:00Cloudflare
Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today, Cloudflare provides security, performance, and reliability to more than 25 million internet properties through its global intelligent network. | Site Link
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Committee to Protect Journalists
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:26:03+00:00Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. CPJ takes action wherever journalists are censored, attacked, imprisoned, or killed for their work. Our advocacy helps to ensure the free flow of news and commentary. | Site Link
Joined: 2008
Columbia Threadneedle Investments
David Sullivan2022-07-26T12:41:22+00:00Columbia Threadneedle Investments
Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a leader in responsible investment and we are active investors seeking to have a positive impact on corporate behavior through constructive engagement with company management and the voting of shares. | Site Link
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Dangerous Speech Project
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T00:26:25+00:00Dangerous Speech Project
The Dangerous Speech Project works to understand speech that increases the risk of intergroup violence, and diminish its harmful effects. Our work is grounded in the observation that episodes of mass violence are typically preceded by a long period of increasingly dangerous speech – speech that dehumanizes its targets, for example, or frames them as a […]
Derechos Digitales
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:26:46+00:00Derechos Digitales
Derechos Digitales (DD) is a Chilean based independent non-profit working since 2005. Our mission is to defend, promote and develop human rights in digital environments, through research, dissemination of information, and advocacy actions aimed to public policy and private practices, in order to generate social changes that improve people’s dignity. Our work combines legal […]
Digital Empowerment Foundation
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T00:27:01+00:00Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
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Domini Impact Investments LLC
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:27:11+00:00Domini Impact Investments LLC
Domini is an investment firm specializing exclusively in socially responsible investing. We manage funds for individual and institutional investors who wish to integrate social and environmental standards into their investment decisions. | Site Link
Joined: 2008
EIRIS Conflict Risk Network
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:27:34+00:00EIRIS Conflict Risk Network
EIRIS Conflict Risk Network includes institutional investors, financial service providers and related stakeholders that are calling on corporate actors to fulfill their responsibility to respect human rights and to take steps that support peace and stability in areas affected by genocide and mass atrocities. Its goal is to increase such behavior by […]
Fundación Internet Bolivia
Rocio Campos2022-01-12T00:29:13+00:00Fundación Internet Bolivia works on data protection, democracy and digital participation, digital economy, and equity and digital divide.
L’École Supérieure de Journalisme, des Métiers de l’Internet et de la Communication
Rocio Campos2022-03-03T18:34:58+00:00E-JICOM is a journalism school based in Senegal founded a decade ago. The school is in the process of creating a new media and digital lab.
JustPeace Labs
Rocio Campos2022-03-03T18:38:02+00:00JustPeace Labs
JustPeace Labs is a women-founded and led civil society organization with expertise in software development, peace and security, business and human rights, and corporate social responsibility.| Site Link
Joined: 2022
Ericsson
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:27:50+00:00Ericsson
Ericsson is a world leader in communications technology and services with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Our organization consists of more than 111,000 experts who provide customers in 180 countries with innovative solutions and services. Together we are building a more connected future where anyone and any industry is empowered to reach their full potential. | […]
Federated Hermes
Rocio Campos2022-01-12T00:28:20+00:00The international business of Federated Hermes has long advocated for responsible investing. Through our world-leading stewardship services, we engage companies on strategic and sustainability concerns to promote investors’ long-term performance and fiduciary interests. Since first engaging for stronger UK corporate governance in 1983, to becoming a founding signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment in […]
Folksam
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:28:30+00:00Folksam
Folksam is a Swedish insurance company that offers a wide variety of insurance, savings and loan products to suit every need. Our position as one of Sweden’s biggest asset managers allows us to influence the companies we invest in. | Site Link
Joined: 2011
Foundation for Media Alternatives
Rocio Campos2022-01-12T00:28:47+00:00FMA is based in the Philippines and was established in 1987. FMA focuses on human rights issues as they relate to technology and is one of GNI's 2021 Emerging Fellows.
Frontiir Joins to the Global Network Initiative as an Observer
Rocio Campos2022-11-30T20:27:45+00:00GNI is thrilled to announce that Frontiir, an Internet service provider based in Myanmar with two research centers in the U.S., and an office in Singapore, is joining GNI as an observer.
Fundación Karisma
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:29:23+00:00Fundación Karisma
Fundación Karisma, founded in 2003 and located in Bogotá, Colombia, seeks to respond to the opportunities and threats that arise in the context of “technology for development” for the exercise of human rights from perspectives that promote freedom of expression. | Site Link
Joined: 2017
George Washington University Law School
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:29:31+00:00George Washington University Law School
Since enrolling its first class in 1865, The George Washington University Law School has produced some of the finest minds across the spectrum of legal scholarship. That tradition continues today, as GW Law graduates use the knowledge and skills they gain here to influence the critical legal conversations of our times. […]
Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T16:39:24+00:00WOUGNET
Women of Uganda Network(WOUGNET) is an NGO that promotes and supports the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) by women and women organizations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the
opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address national and local problems of sustainable development.| Site Link
Joined: 2019
Global Forum for Media Development
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T00:29:39+00:00Global Forum for Media Development
Established in 2005, the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) is an international network of around 200 journalism support and media development organisations across 70 countries. As a not-for-profit, Belgian-registered ASBL, GFMD’s main focus is to foster collaboration as well as an exchange of information and experience among its […]
Global Partners Digital
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:29:55+00:00Global Partners Digital
Global Partners Digital works to enable a digital environment underpinned by human rights and democratic values. | Site Link
Joined: 2017
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. | Site Link
Joined: 2008
Hiperderecho
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T00:30:18+00:00Hiperderecho
Hiperderecho works to promote and defend fundamental human rights in the digital space to enable Peruvians to leverage ICTs to protect their individual and collective freedoms. Hiperderecho participated in the GNI-Internews Fellowship in 2020. | Site Link
Joined: 2021
Human Rights First
David Sullivan2022-07-03T21:57:44+00:00Human Rights First
Human Rights First is an independent advocacy and action organization that challenges America to live up to its ideals. We believe American leadership is essential in the struggle for human rights so we press the U.S. government and private companies to respect human rights and the rule of law. When they don’t, we […]
Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:30:44+00:00Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut
The Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut is a leading innovator in research and teaching that critically engages contemporary dynamics and discourses on the theory and practice of human rights throughout the world. | Site Link
Joined: 2015
Human Rights Watch
David Sullivan2022-07-03T21:58:14+00:00Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. | Site Link
Joined: 2008
Internet Sans Frontières
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T00:31:42+00:00Internet Sans Frontières
Internet Without Borders is a French association, under the 1901 law, and an international network of non-governmental organizations whose objective is to promote the free flow of information and knowledge, and to defend digital rights and freedoms. Internet Without Borders was founded in Paris in 2007 by a group of […]
Internews
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:31:52+00:00Internews
Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard. | Site Link
Joined: 2008
IPANDETEC
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T00:32:01+00:00El Instituto Panameño de Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologías (IPANDETEC)
IPANDETEC is a non-profit organization that promotes the use, and regulation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Human Rights in the digital era; through the analysis, defense, research and legislative monitoring of Internet public policies in Central […]
Index on Censorship
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:31:06+00:00Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship is an international organisation that promotes and defends the right to freedom of expression. | Site Link
Joined: 2011
Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:31:17+00:00Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety
The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) is an Azerbaijani civil society organization dedicated to protecting the rights of journalists and media personnel in Azerbaijan, and to promoting freedom of expression and the rule of law. | Site Link
Joined: 2012
International Media Support
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:31:28+00:00International Media Support
International Media Support (IMS) is a non-profit organisation working to support local media in countries affected by armed conflict, human insecurity and political transition. In more than 50 countries worldwide, IMS helps to strengthen professional journalism and ensure that media can operate in challenging circumstances. | Site Link
Joined: 2011
LINE Corporation
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T00:32:48+00:00LINE Corporation
LINE Corporation is a mobile messaging platform provider based in Japan. It was conceived after the massive earthquake that devastated Japan on 11 March 2011 and founded on 1 April 2013. Driven by the fundamental need for a global communication tool that could strengthen human relationships, LINE Corporation integrated NHN Japan Corporation, NAVER Matome, and Livedoor web service businesses.
Since […]
Microsoft
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:33:57+00:00Microsoft
At Microsoft, our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. | Site Link
Joined: 2008
Nokia
David Sullivan2022-01-24T16:36:40+00:00Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in innovations such as mobile networks, digital health, virtual reality and phones. | Site Link
Joined: 2017
Orange
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:34:58+00:00Orange
Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 40,9 billion euros in 2016 and 152,000 employees worldwide at 30 September 2017, including 93,000 employees in France. Present in 29 countries, the Group has a total customer base of 269 million customers worldwide at 30 September 2017, including 208 million mobile customers […]
Open Technology Institute
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:34:47+00:00Open Technology Institute
The Open Technology Institute at New America works at the intersection of technology and policy to ensure that every community has equitable access to digital technology and its benefits. | Site Link
Joined: 2017
Paradigm Initiative
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:35:08+00:00Paradigm Initiative
Paradigm Initiative is a social enterprise that builds an ICT-enabled support system and advocates digital rights in order to improve livelihoods for under-served youth. | Site Link
Joined: 2017
PEN America
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:35:26+00:00PEN America
PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties […]
Programme on Technology and Democracy
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T00:35:47+00:00Programme on Technology and Democracy
The Programme on Technology and Democracy investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation, and politics. The research project is based at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford and examines how automated bots are using social media networking sites to manipulate global public opinion. It comprises […]
Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D)
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T00:36:06+00:00Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) is a Mexican non-profit organization focused on defending human rights in the digital realm through a combination of applied research, advocacy, and strategic litigation. R3D‘s impact cuts across themes related to privacy, surveillance, freedom of expression, access to the internet, and access to knowledge. […]
SMEX
David Sullivan2022-01-12T00:58:33+00:00SMEX
Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a registered Lebanese NGO that works to advance self-regulating information societies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). | Site Link
Joined: February 2018
Software Freedom Law Centre, India
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T00:36:51+00:00Software Freedom Law Centre, India
SFLC.IN is a donor-supported legal services organization based in India that brings together lawyers, policy analysts, technologists, and students to protect freedom in the digital world. SFLC.IN promotes innovation and open access to knowledge by helping developers make great Free and Open Source Software, protect privacy and civil liberties […]
TEDIC
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T16:04:00+00:00TEDIC
TEDIC is a digital rights organization that conducts legal, socio-technical, and political analyses around issues of technology and Internet governance. It also promotes the use of open software and hardware to enhance citizen participation for social change in Paraguay.| Site Link
Joined: 2021
Telenor Group
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T16:37:20+00:00Telenor
Telenor Group is one of the world’s major mobile operators. We keep our 176 million customers connected in 12 markets* across Scandinavia, Central Eastern Europe, and Asia. | Site Link
Joined: 2017
Telia Company
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T16:37:39+00:00Telia Company
We’re Telia Company, the New Generation Telco. Our 21,000 talented colleagues serve millions of customers every day in one of the world’s most connected regions. With a strong connectivity base, we’re the hub in the digital ecosystem, empowering people, companies and societies to stay in touch with everything that matters 24/7/365 – on their […]
Trillium Asset Management
j Gregory Barton2022-01-26T00:38:13+00:00Trillium Asset Management
Trillium Asset Management, LLC is the oldest independent investment advisor devoted exclusively to sustainable and responsible investing (SRI). | Site Link
Joined: 2008
Unwanted Witness
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T16:38:29+00:00Unwanted Witness
Unwanted Witness was established in 2012 to advocate for a free, open, and inclusive Internet that contributes to the realization of human rights and good governance. | Site Link
Joined: 2021
Verizon Communications (Verizon)
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T16:38:43+00:00Verizon Communications (Verizon)
Verizon Communications (Verizon) is a U.S.-based telecommunication company and one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services. | Site Link
Joined: 2021
Vodafone Group
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T16:38:58+00:00Vodafone Group
Vodafone Group is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies and provides a range of services including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications. | Site Link
Joined: 2017
Wikimedia Foundation
Chris Sheehy2022-01-12T16:39:08+00:00Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and supports its mission of free knowledge for all. The Foundation advocates for strong privacy protections, freedom of expression, access to information, and internet freedom in collaboration with digital rights advocates around the world. | Site Link
Joined: […]
yahoo!
David Sullivan2022-01-12T16:39:39+00:00Yahoo!
Yahoo transforms how people communicate and transact by creating new ways for consumers, advertisers, and partners around the world to connect.| Site Link
Joined: 2008
Richard Danbury
admin2022-01-12T16:16:27+00:00
Richard Danbury
Dr Danbury is an academic lawyer, a journalist and a former practicing barrister. He directs the MA in investigative journalism at City, University of London, is the BBC’s […]
Evelyn Aswad
admin2022-01-12T00:28:06+00:00
Evelyn Aswad
Evelyn Aswad is the Herman G. Kaiser Chair in International Law and the Director of the Center for International Business & Human Rights at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Previously, she was the director of the human rights law office […]
Eileen Donahoe
admin2022-01-12T16:14:13+00:00
Eileen Donahoe
Eileen Donahoe is the Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center. She served as the US Ambassador […]
Caroline Kaeb
admin2022-01-12T16:13:10+00:00
Caroline Kaeb
Dr. Caroline Kaeb is a Senior Fellow and Co-Lead for Business & Human Rights at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at The Wharton School. She also serves […]
Deirdre Mulligan
admin2022-01-12T16:14:01+00:00
Deirdre Mulligan
Deirdre K. Mulligan is a Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, a faculty Director of the […]
Chinmayi Arun
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T00:25:33+00:00
Chinmayi Arun
Chinmayi Arun is a resident fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center of Internet & Society at Harvard University. She has served on the faculties of two of the […]
Meg Roggensack
admin2022-01-12T16:16:08+00:00
Meg Roggensack
Margaret Ellen Roggensack is an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. See her full bio here.
Joined: 2017
Ernest Wilson
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Ernest Wilson
Ernest James Wilson III, Ph.D., is the Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication and Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.
Courtney Radsch
j Gregory Barton2022-01-12T16:42:40+00:00
Courtney Radsch
Dr. Courtney Radsch is a journalist, scholar, and practitioner working at the nexus of technology, media, and policy. She serves on the masthead of Tech Policy Press, as outreach chair of […]
Vivek Kirshnamurthy
Rocio Campos2022-01-12T16:17:04+00:00
Vivek Krishnamurthy
Vivek Krishnamurthy is the Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and Director of CIPPIC — the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. Vivek’s teaching, scholarship, and clinical legal practice focus on the complex regulatory and human rights-related […]
Elonnai Hickok
Rocio Campos2022-01-12T16:14:32+00:00
Elonnai Hickok
Elonnai Hickok is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an independent expert examining how technology and policy can impact and benefit society. She has contributed to international policy initiatives and has […]
