EDGE Initiative

We will harness technologies to empower the most marginalised, ensuring fair access to technology and supporting robust and inclusive democracies. Technology poses a huge threat to basic rights: it has eviscerated privacy, amplified prejudice and undermined democracy. There is growing evidence of the need to reframe technology’s role in a world with an increasingly unequal distribution of wealth and power. The Founders believe that technology can and should act as a catalyst for greater equality, helping to address the root causes of injustice. We aim to ensure that technology is: - Embedded as a key tool for advancing human rights across the globe - Developed with the protection of human rights as a core principle - Accessible wherever it is needed to promote people’s basic rights