Author: Numun Fund

Dear community, We close this year with many feelings – gratitude and joy for being able to have been in community with many of our partners, nodes and constellations of activists at different spaces throughout the year; grave reflection on the many ways that technology is implicated in how we are experiencing the surfacing of…

By Subha Wijesiriwardena While disinformation has become a much-talked about issue in social movements, as well as philanthropic and policymaking spaces, there’s not much consensus on how we understand it or its impact, nor about which tactics make for the best solutions. Similarly, while there is some recent attention paid to the concept of “gendered…

By Sam de Silva In late May, I participated in Numun Fund’s three-day Disinfo Co-Lab in Bangkok. I was working as a consultant with Luminate’s Asia team, and fortunately for me, I was the only one from the team who was free and available to attend. The three days I spent at the Co-Lab provided…

by Pamela Gloria Cajilig In a Philippine island that sits where the river meets the sea, a community of fisherfolk contemplate their future survival. Decades of poorly planned coastal development and governance have triggered a series of lingering, entangled, and totalizing flood disasters in this landscape that I have been visiting for the past four…

By Yan Naung Oak In May, I received an invitation in my inbox to a “gathering” in Bangkok by some trusted colleagues working in the disinformation space. I learned that it was organized by the Numun Fund, an initiative that supports feminist tech movements, particularly in the Global South. My team and I at Thibi…