University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researches the intersection of politics and digital technology, studying technologies in the context of the people who design, use, and govern them. This grant will support the center’s research, including on how mis- and disinformation campaigns are created and spread and how they can be counteracted.

This grant will support a messaging development project at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life.

The Transfer Project is a regional initiative led by the University of North Carolina, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, and the Food and Agriculture Organization to generate evidence on impacts of national cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa, and to translate that evidence into policy through partnerships with national governments. The Transfer Project conducts evaluations and research that respond to governments’ policy questions about social protection programs, and helps governments apply this evidence to decisions. In coming years, their work will include helping governments target social protection budgets to address the economic hardships caused by COVID-19. Ultimately, the goal is to have more social welfare ministries in Africa systematically commission and use evidence to inform their decisions, and to have this evidence primarily generated by Africans.