Alliance of Democracies

Teona Tomashvili

Teona is the co-founder and project lead of ForSet - a creative enterprise that specializes in data communication - where she leads civic tech direction. Additionally, Teona builds a community of data-driven activists by organizing various hackathons. She holds a master's degree in EU and Russia Studies. AskGov.ge is a citizen-centric freedom of information (FOI) request platform that aims at incentivizing the government to release public data. The project already has one of the largest publicly available databases in Georgia and aims at providing more government data for citizens to strengthen Georgian democracy.

ASKGOV.GE - GEORGIA

Nare Hakobyan

Nare is a Strategic Partnerships Assistant at SocialLab. Her education and professional experience have primarily focused on tackling social issues at the intersection of technology and innovation. She holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations and Development. SocialLab combines data science and social sciences to create an open data platform that improves access to public opinion and information through social listening. The project aims to bring greater accuracy and understanding of public opinion, resulting in better insights, information, and recommendations to change makers in Armenia.

DATA FOR DEMOCACY - ARMENIA

Giorgi Kvinikadze

Giorgi is a Data Scientist and cofounder of ThroughAI from Georgia. His work focuses on the intersection of AI and Machine Learning algorithms. He holds a master's degree in Behavioral Economics and Modern Data Analyses. War Fake News Detector aims to identify fake news by using a high-end intelligent online chatbot solution powered by AI. The chatbot is integrated into Telegram and focuses primarily on fake news spread in the Russo-Ukrainian War to help people identify false information.

WAR FAKE NEWS DETECTOR - GEORGIA

Natalya Chernogub

Natalya Chernogub is the head of the GR department at YouControl, and the head of NGO`s "Open Data Association" and "Natalka Park" NGO’s. Since 2017, she has been an expert of the Council of Europe on the development of democracy, public consultations, public participation in the planning of public spaces. RuAssets allows businesses and authorities to protect themselves from reputational risks associated with cooperation with the state-sponsor of terrorism, Russia, and journalists to prepare high-quality investigative materials on anti-corruption topics.

YC WORLD - UKRAINE

Viktor Nestulia

Viktor Nestulia is is leading Open Contracting Partnership’s support to Ukraine to reconstruct and modernize the country after Russia’s illegal invasion, leveraging the transformational open contracting reforms in Ukraine since 2014 to help the country build back better. He also chairs Ukraine’s Reconstruction Integrity, Sustainability and Efficiency (RISE) Coalition, a group of 40+ organizations focusing on embedding open contracting principles and approaches into the recovery program. Viktor works closely with government, business, and civil society to develop an end-to-end Digital Reconstruction Management System and make sure that Ukraine’s reconstruction is a role model of open government and open contracting for the world.

DREAM - UKRAINE

Raluca Gindea

Raluca Gindea is young professional joining the Fellowship following winning the Democracy Tech Hackathon in Moldova with her team. Raluca has experience from the youth work sector as a project coordinator, leading her country on two Erasmus Plus International Exchanges. She also led Moldova-based NGOs Nirvana and LeoTeen Energy Chisinau. Her team developed the project the People’s Parliament that lists bills presently debated in the Moldovan Parliament, allowing citizens to vote on them as well. This tool will provide a way to compare the stand of the Moldovans and that of their MPs and to observe both the concordances and the discrepancies between them.

PEOPLE'S PARLIAMENT - MOLDOVA

What is Democracy Tech?

Tech innovations that can strengthen or/and provide solutions to one of the above six mentioned conceptions of democracy, namely, electoral, consensus, accountability, participatory, deliberative and egalitarian. We also consider media literacy tools addressing the problem of disinformation, and unethical artificial intelligence.

What is a scalable business?

A scalable business is one that focuses on the implementation of processes that lead to an efficient operation. The workflow and structure of the business allow for scalability, where measurement of the entire business can be assessed and managed at each level.

What is the application timeline?

Our call for applications opens on September 13, 2024 and closes on November 30, 2024. Following that is the selection process which will also entail interview sessions with selected fellows.

What is the fellowship timeline?

Stage 1, which is composed of bi-weekly collective masterclasses and mentor sessions will run from early January until the end of May, 2025. And Stage 2 will start in May, where fellows will attend Copenhagen Democracy Summit, slated for May 13 - 14, 2025. And follow up activities will be conduct including regional outreach events in our target countries

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2023 Fellowship

The Fellows