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margin: 0px; padding: 9px 18px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;" class="">Media Democracy Fund, Ford Foundation and Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce an inceptive study of Big Data and the practices around large scale data collection, analysis and use: <a href="http://mediademocracyfund.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7c408a3f033e02fb502950f34&id=75fd7576c1&e=95c4384242" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 198, 221); word-wrap: break-word;" class="">“Quantified Society: Examining the Consequences of Algorithmic Decision Making for Open Societies”.</a><br class=""><br class="">This international Call for Proposals invites submissions from researchers, academicians, journalists, human rights defenders, civil society organizations, and professionals. Successful proposals will help synthesize an understanding of how technologies and policies around Big Data collection, analysis and use are driving changes in innovation, human rights, and relevant regulations.<br class=""><br class="">We have followed your work in the field of human rights and technology with great interest and believe you can further the debate and clarify concerns and opportunities around Big Data.<br class=""><br class="">We are pleased to invite a proposal from you and encourage you to circulate this Call for Proposals to others in your network who may be interested. The details of this Call for Proposals, including application instructions and timeline, may be downloaded <a href="http://mediademocracyfund.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7c408a3f033e02fb502950f34&id=52018479fc&e=95c4384242" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(109, 198, 221); word-wrap: break-word;" class="">here</a>. Concept notes must be received by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2025782319" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">27 March 2015</span></span>. Full proposals from semi-finalists will be due <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2025782320" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">22 May 2015</span></span>. Research awards will range from $10,000-25,000.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px;" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>