IPIE Receives Grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to Ensure Diversity in Research Initiatives
December 2024
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has granted $100,000 to the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) to support the representation of Global Majority scholars in IPIE research initiatives. While issues related to AI bias, algorithmic manipulation, and disinformation are prevalent all around the world, Global North scholars and institutions are often overrepresented in the available research. The IPIE is committed to growing the diversity of scholarship from around the world and is grateful to the Hilton Foundation for supporting this goal.
Phil Howard, President of the IPIE, said:
“We are so pleased to partner with the Hilton Foundation to expand and diversify key research on the challenges facing our information environment. Ensuring the representation and integration of Global Majority scholars is essential to advancing the IPIE’s mission.”
Shaheen Kassim-Lakha, Senior Director Strategic Partnerships at the Hilton Foundation, said:
“The Hilton Foundation envisions a world in which improving the human condition is a shared and sustainable goal. We are excited to partner with the IPIE, an organization that is actively working towards that vision. The IPIE’s commitment to improving the health of our information environment is key to ensuring the health of our societies at large.”
About the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
International hotelier Conrad N. Hilton established the grantmaking foundation that bears his name in 1944 to help people living in poverty and experiencing disadvantage worldwide. Today, the work continues, concentrating on efforts to ensure healthy early childhood development and sustainable livelihoods for youth and refugee populations, support young people transitioning out of foster care, improve access to housing and support services for people experiencing homelessness, identify solutions to safe water access, and lift the work of Catholic sisters. Additionally, following selection by an independent, international jury, the Foundation annually awards the $2.5 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize to an organization doing extraordinary work to reduce human suffering. The Foundation is one of the world’s largest, with approximately $7 billion in assets. It has awarded grants to date totaling more than $3.2 billion worldwide, and $290 million in 2023. Please visit www.hiltonfoundation.org for more information.
About the IPIE
The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) is an independent and global science organization providing scientific knowledge about the health of the world's information environment. Based in Switzerland, the IPIE offers policymakers, industry, and civil society actionable scientific assessments about threats to the information environment, including AI bias, algorithmic manipulation, and disinformation. The IPIE is the only scientific body systematically organizing, evaluating, and elevating research with the broad aim of improving the global information environment. Hundreds of researchers worldwide contribute to the IPIE's reports.