Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
-
Info
Digital Action
EU Transparency Register
489296438914-72 First registered on 13 Jul 2020
Goals / Remit
In a thriving democracy, people can form and contest ideas online, free from exploitation, manipulation, discrimination, and harassment. Yet the spread of mis- and dis-information online shows the risks that the current design and governance of the online information ecosystem can pose to the health of individuals, society, and democracy.
Digital Action’s contribution is to unlock civil society collaboration so it builds shared ideas and collective strength that transform the digital world. We also have a particular focus on the global equity crisis in tech accountability, whereby weak global governance rules as well as poor safeguarding by social media platforms allow the largely unrestricted flow of disinformation, hate speech and abuse in many parts of the world. We seek solutions to this crisis, through building connections between civil society, policymakers and stakeholders in the EU and other major regions.Main EU files targeted
Digital Action targets policies in relation to Sharing Europe's Digital future. In particular, it has acted in collaboration with partners to coordinate research and policy development in relation to the Digital Services Act, and European Democracy Action Plan.
Address
Head Office
1199 N. Fairfax Street, Suite 300Global Impact
Alexandria, VA 22314
UNITED STATESEU Office
1199 N. Fairfax Street, Suite 300Global Impact
Alexandria, VA 22314
UNITED STATESWebsite
-
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
As per the Transparency Register Implementing Guidelines (26/06/2020), we have rounded up to the nearest applicable percentage block, and are clarifying our accurate staff time on register covered activities in this text box.
We estimate 5% of 1 person's working time is spent on activities covered by the register.Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
-
Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
-
Networking
Affiliation
Digital Action receives fiscal sponsorship from a 501(c)(3) public charity, based in the US.
Member organisations
None declared
-
Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
640,033€
Major funding types in closed year
Grants, Other
Funding types "other" information
Digital Action was supported in 2023 by grants from John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation and Luminate Foundation
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation 34,470€ Contribution Ford Foundation 326,072€ Contribution Luminate Foundation 279,490€ Other financial info
None declared
-
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Digital Action is currently focused on the protection from social media harms of the 2024 European elections, and other global elections taking place in 2024. Our campaign website is www.yearofdemocracy.org
Digital Action is part of People vs Big Tech https://peoplevsbig.tech/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
-
Date 15 Jul 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Responsibility and accountability of online platforms Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists