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Lighthouse Reports

Pioneering Collaborative Journalism

Utrecht
food, arms tracking, waste, migration, surveillance
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Awana Digital

Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

San Francisco
2008
refugees, human rights, migration, immigration, Sustainable cities and communities

TechFugees

Techfugees is an initiative that supports the deployment of responsible technology products and services for and with displaced persons across the world. It also enables the creation and application of tech-enabled solutions to manage migration.

UK
2015
refugees, migration, immigration

Contratados

To help level the playing field, CDM created Contratados, a platform launched last week to let migrant workers share Yelp-style ratings and reviews of their experiences with different recruiters and employers.

Baltimore, MD
2005
labor, human rights, migration

Fundación Avina

Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Ciudad del Saber, Clayton, Panama City, Panama
1994
city, biome, Affordable and clean energy, recycling, Climate action, migration, Sustainable cities and communities

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. They work together to create open map data which revolutionises disaster management by enabling disaster responders to reach those in need, and contributes to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

USA
refugees, migration, immigration