Civil society / NGOs

About the ContestThe purpose of this contest is to encourage professionals, researchers, and students, especially those who identify as Indigenous Peoples, to demonstrate the value of data through effective visual data storytelling, and to contribute to the open data community by increasing the accessibility of ...

The East-West Center and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, in partnership with the Stimson Center, are jointly offering Fellowships to journalists from Mekong Basin countries that aim to strengthen their data-journalism skills and support data-driven investigations into water security challenges and solutions in the Mekong region.Selected Fellows will join a series of virtual seminars with experts in fields such as ...

  ELIGIBILITY: Public or private organizations in ASEAN countries. Individuals are not eligibleTOPIC: Accelerating the digital transformation of Southeast Asia with innovative training programs. Participating programs can teach any of the following four categories of essential skills:Specialized digital skills for information and communication technology (ICT)Professional digital skills ...

The Mekong River is an important part of the geographic, economic, and political landscape of the region. It flows through six riparian countries (China, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and provides support to many economic sectors in this subregion including agriculture, fisheries, energy, ...

Are you a non-profit organization/ group1 operating in southern locations from Dak Lak to Ca Mau?Is the Covid-19 pandemic negatively impacting on the operation of your organization/ group?Is your organization/ group in need of funding to support the disadvantaged groups who are in difficulty due ...

Open Data for Development Asia Hub (D4DAsia) is currently seeking independent, country-level researchers for the following 14 countries: Indonesia; Philippines; Singapore; Cambodia; Lao PDR; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam; Sri Lanka; India; Nepal; Bangladesh; Taiwan; and Japan.This call is open both for individual researchers as well as ...

Gender inequality underscores the lives of women all over the world. At the Open Development Initiative, we wanted to understand how this impacted women in the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) in their access to open data.In 2019, ...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, journalists around the world have played an extremely important role in providing the public with information about the pandemic and anti-epidemic efforts by governments.To help operational journalists ...

Asia, just like the rest of the world, is grappling with COVID-19. Despite tremendous economic growth and advances in healthcare, technology, and elsewhere during the preceding decades, we are struggling to overcome the pandemic and the resultant economic and social fallouts. Journalism for an Equitable Asia ...

Vietnam has achieved great economic development over the past 30 years. However, there is growing concern over increasing inequalities in other aspects of life, in particular opportunities and voice for certain population subgroups. Meanwhile, there is still a sizeable and significant lacuna in multidimensional analysis ...