Funders

The Rockefeller Foundation advances new frontiers of science, data, policy and innovation to solve global challenges related to health, food, power and economic mobility. As a science-driven philanthropy focused on building collaborative relationships with partners and grantees, the Foundation seeks to inspire and foster large-scale human impact that promotes the well-being of humanity throughout the world by identifying and accelerating breakthrough solutions, ideas and conversations.

Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges – combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) funds research in the Global South to promote growth, reduce poverty, and drive large-scale positive change. As part of Canada’s foreign affairs and development efforts, we are a Crown corporation that provides leading thinkers the resources, advice, and training they need to implement and share their solutions with those who need them most. In short, IDRC increases opportunities — and makes a real difference in people’s lives.

“FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All” is a German Development Cooperation initiative striving for a more open, inclusive and sustainable approach to AI on an international level. It is funded by Germany’s national AI strategy, and assists partner countries in building sustainable AI ecosystems, focusing on skills & education, access to AI training data and the development of ethical AI policies. In doing so, FAIR Forward supports the provision of open, non-discriminatory and inclusive training data and open-source AI applications, especially in local languages to empower marginalized groups.

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation, driven by a mission to ensure everyone benefits from science’s potential to improve health and save lives. Wellcome’s Data for Science and Health (DSH) program was set up with the explicit ambition of putting trust into practice through changing how data and software in health are funded, developed and governed. By supporting open source, foundational data and software tools, with a focus on usability, adoption and long-term sustainability, DSH wants to make it easier and more equitable for data scientists globally to innovate with health data.