Evaluating the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s Audacious Project
Evaluating the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s Audacious Project
HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. It works to provide map data that revolutionises disaster management, reduces risks, and contributes to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. HOT commissioned Expectation State to conduct a five-month mid-term evaluation study of its Audacious project. The study is being undertaken by a team of seven evaluators across Africa, Asia Read More
Identifying Tensions Between Investment and Digital Rights
In collaboration with Caribou Digital, and in partnership with USAID's Innovation, Technology and Research (ITR) hub, Expectation State was commissioned to identify tensions between investment and market growth in the digital technology sector and their impact on individual rights. In Read More
Supporting Digital-Focused Investment into Emerging Markets
The investment gap for internet connectivity alone is over $428 billion globally and there is a need to ensure investments are directed toward building open, inclusive, and secure digital infrastructure and services. In April 2022, USAID’s Innovation, Technology, and Research Read More
Evaluating the All Survivors Project
Rape and other forms of sexual violence occurs in most contemporary armed conflicts. While disproportionately affecting women and girls, conflict related sexual violence involving men and boys has been documented in over 25 different situations of armed conflict in recent Read More
Supporting the growth of a tech firm focused on strategic communications
Technology and technology companies are increasingly playing a role in development. We supported one of Fast Company’s most innovative companies in 2022 to better understand the development landscape and how they can best build agency within it. We designed and Read More
Surveying private markets investment allocation strategies
We spent nine months speaking with 70+ C-Suite institutional investors and investment managers to increase their awareness of our focus states as investment destinations. Following discussions with investors from our network in London, Edinburgh, New York, Washington DC, Zurich, Geneva, Read More
Developing an anti-corruption and transparency programme
131 countries have made no significant progress against corruption in the last decade. In 2022, we were commissioned by the UK chapter of Transparency International to support the development of a global anti-corruption and transparency programme. The concept development focused Read More