Overview

DADRI is an independent non-partisan, non-advocacy, and non-religious, Cairo-based data research institute and fact-tank that designs and generates open-access databases, quantitative sociological indicators, and indexes and aggregates alternative knowledge, history, and archives for historical and contemporary social, political, cultural, and legal issues in Egypt and beyond. We started as a documentation initiative under the auspices of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) in 2013, expanded into an independent research center in 2015, and got registered as a civil company in accordance with the Egyptian Law in 2016. Through its databases, publications, training and capacity building, and academic and consultative services, DADRI strives to make data and archival materials easily accessible to the wider public as well as the more specialized audience of researchers, academics, journalists, among others. During this process, DADRI aims to a) foster the skills of individuals and the development local capacities with interest in documentation and archiving, and b) cooperate with newly born initiatives that share DADRI’s values by using their services and supporting their work. Our Vision Transforming communities and societies living under the conditions of information asymmetry, mis/disinformation, and censorship, to ones where individuals have inviolable rights to free-flowing, evidence-based, decentralized knowledge, transparency, accountability, and justice.