ASVIDA continues its partnership with NED: a third joint project to support transparency and integrity has started

The Open Data Association is starting a new stage of cooperation with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), our reliable partner in the effort to increase government transparency and accountability through open data. This is already our third joint project, and we especially value the opportunity to keep working with NED given all the difficulties faced by American foundations that support Ukraine.

The new grant, “Fostering Transparency, Accountability, and Justice Through Open Data”, will run for 24 months — until August 2027.

What the project is about

The project aims to develop tools that strengthen financial transparency and access to open data. The key focus is an AI-powered investigation assistant. It will help investigative journalists, law enforcement agencies and researchers identify links between companies, people and events in complex cross-border corruption cases more quickly.

The AI assistant will make it possible to upload text, visual and video materials and automatically extract and visualise the important information they contain. This speeds up the analysis of large volumes of data and lets users concentrate on drawing analytical conclusions. It is a logical continuation of our previous work on strengthening analytics based on open data.

In addition, Open Data Association experts and invited speakers will train journalists, civic activists, and representatives of public authorities and law enforcement agencies in using open data to make anti-corruption research more effective and to strengthen justice in Ukraine.

Strategic partnership

Our cooperation with the National Endowment for Democracy is a long-term partnership built on trust that helps ASVIDA systematically strengthen transparency and integrity in Ukraine’s public sector and business environment. Thanks to NED’s support, we have been able to move step by step from data search tools to intelligent analytics, expanding the capabilities of journalists, investigators and civil society. The current NED grant sets clear goals, timelines and resources for stable project implementation, which is especially important at a time of shifting global funding.

“For us, this is not just a continuation of a project — it is an investment in a resilient transparency infrastructure. We are grateful to NED for its consistent trust and support, which allow us to turn open data into tangible instruments of justice,”

— ASVIDA says.

What’s next

In the coming months, we will focus on the technical development of the AI assistant, preparing training materials and launching the first wave of trainings. We will regularly report on progress on our platforms and publish cases of the tool being used in real investigations.

[note] If you represent a public authority, media outlet or civil society organisation and would like to join the pilot or the trainings, write to us. Together we will strengthen the infrastructure of integrity.