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MasakhanePan-African grassroots collective building NLP and machine translation for African languages.DatasketchColombian data and social technology organization (founded 2015, Bogotá) that democratizes access to data science for journalists, activists, civil society and the public sector. It covers the entire data cycle: it builds data where none exists, requests access to public information, and creates visualizations without needing to code. Projects: analysis of 6.2 million public contracts, 'Stalker de la contratación', and data governance with Fundación Karisma.SEWA: data and digital platforms of informal women workersSEWA (Self Employed Women's Association), a union of ~2.5-3 million informal sector women workers founded by Ela Bhatt in Ahmedabad, Gujarat (1972), built its own data layer and digital tools by and for its members. It digitized its membership ('Vadlo online'): 2,000+ grassroots women leaders collect and renew data on ~2.5 million workers per year. Its members co-designed apps for membership, savings and credit, women farmers' livelihoods and health data, with digital and financial literacy training (100,000+ members trained in Gujarat in 2022).Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias (TIC A.C.)Federated cell phone and internet network owned by indigenous and rural communities, built and operated by the communities themselves with technical and legal support from Rhizomatica and REDES A.C. It was born in 2013 in Talea de Castro, Oaxaca, and in 2016 it obtained Mexico's first Indigenous Social Concession to manage spectrum and operate autonomous networks. In 2024 it launched mobile virtual network operators (TIC OMV and Wiki Katat Tosepan) on the Altán wholesale network to provide 4.5G service with national coverage.Data CívicaOrganization that uses data and technology to defend human rights in Mexico, with a focus on enforced disappearance, violence and femicides. It cleans, cross-references and analyzes official records to expose inconsistencies and equip families and organizations with advocacy tools. It developed 'Volver a Desaparecer', which documents how thousands of names disappear from official records, and in 2024 it denounced irregularities in the Estrategia Nacional de Búsqueda.SyRI (Systeem Risico Indicatie)State system for detecting social benefits fraud that since 2014 cross-referenced personal data from multiple databases (municipalities, UWV, the tax authority, Social Affairs) with a hidden algorithmic risk model to flag 'unlikely profiles'. It was applied mainly in low-income and minority neighborhoods. A civil rights coalition led by Platform Bescherming Burgerrechten sued it ('Bij Voorbaat Verdacht' campaign). On February 5, 2020 the court of The Hague ordered it to be halted for violating art. 8 of the ECHR, due to lack of transparency and insufficient safeguards.