Christchurch Call Foundation

What Christchurch Call Foundation does

The Christchurch Call Foundation is a non-profit NGO headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, incorporated in 2024 as the operational secretariat for the Christchurch Call to Action — a multistakeholder initiative originally launched in 2019 by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and President Emmanuel Macron in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings. The Foundation coordinates a global community of 56 governments, 19 to 20 online service providers (including Microsoft, Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, Discord, Roblox, and Match Group), 12 partner organisations, and more than 50 civil society organisations around 25 commitments to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC) online.

The Foundation's product surface is policy- and training-oriented rather than consumer-facing. Core deliverables include the Catalyst programme (gaming safety tools), Level Up Safely! (youth digital literacy), Digital Bystanders (offline intervention training), the Christchurch Call Internet Algorithmic Analysis Observatory (CCIAO), the Elevate Initiative (AI safety and online harms capacity-building), and Crisis Response Protocol 2.0 (cross-platform emergency response framework). All products and services are delivered free of charge to member stakeholders. Technical capacity is delivered through partners, notably the ROOST consortium (Google, OpenAI, Roblox, Discord) supplying open-source tooling such as PySyft-based privacy-preserving systems and the Content Capture Stack.

The Foundation employs a small team of approximately 17 experts led by CEO Paul Ash, with Dame Jacinda Ardern serving as unpaid patron. The Foundation is co-chaired with France. The business model is grant- and donation-based: the Foundation receives funding from governments (most prominently a $1.3M CAD grant from the Government of Canada's Community Resilience Fund in 2025) and philanthropic donors, having transitioned from direct New Zealand taxpayer funding upon incorporation. There is no fee-for-service revenue, and pricing is irrelevant — the Foundation sells access to legitimacy, convening, and tooling rather than commercial products.

Name

Christchurch Call Foundation

Legal name

Christchurch Call Foundation

Website

https://christchurchcall.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Non-profit NGO serving as the operational secretariat for the Christchurch Call, coordinating a global multistakeholder effort of 56 governments, 19-20 tech companies, and 50+ civil society organisations to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Safety Coordination

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Risk Intelligence, Threat Monitoring & Crisis Response (Harmful trends, coordinated abuse) (BPAAALAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Privacy, Data Protection & Cyber Governance (GRC) (BPAHAFAF), App Store & Platform Governance (Apps, Extensions, Developer Compliance) (BPAAALAE)

Keywords

• Online safety coordination
• Counter-extremism initiatives
• Multistakeholder convening
• Trust and safety training
• Algorithmic auditing

Headquarters

HQ city

Wellington

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Foundation Funding: The Christchurch Call Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that operates as secretariat for the Christchurch Call community. It has attracted pledges from members of the Call Community and philanthropic donors. Funding transitioned from New Zealand taxpayer funding (ended 30 June 2024) to Foundation funding.
2. Government Grants: The Foundation receives government funding including over $1.3m CAD from the Government of Canada through the Community Resilience Fund to support TVEC work in emerging technologies and small platform support.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Christchurch Call Foundation operates as the operational secretariat and convening body for the Christchurch Call, coordinating a global multistakeholder community of governments, online service providers, and civil society to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. The Foundation delivers crisis response protocols (CRP 2.0), develops and distributes open-source technical tools for content moderation and AI safety, runs the Catalyst educational programme with e-learning courses on gaming safety, and facilitates privacy-preserving algorithmic auditing through CCIAO in partnership with OpenMined and Microsoft.

Product overview

The Christchurch Call Foundation operates as a non-profit NGO serving as the operational secretariat for the Christchurch Call—a global multistakeholder commitment to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC) online. The Foundation's product portfolio centers on coordination platforms and programmes rather than a single software product. Key offerings include the Catalyst Programme (delivering e-learning tools like Level Up Safely! and Digital Bystanders for gaming safety), the Crisis Response Protocol (enabling coordinated rapid response to terrorist content during attacks), the CCIAO (developing privacy-preserving algorithmic auditing tools via PySyft), and the Elevate Initiative (addressing AI-enabled TVEC risks). The Foundation also supports distribution of third-party tools including Altitude for smaller platforms. All educational resources are delivered through a Moodle-based e-learning platform under Creative Commons licensing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Elevate: A three-year project engaging the Call Community to address terrorist and violent extremist use of AI, with initial focus on AI risks and emerging technologies.
• Christchurch Call Initiative on Algorithmic Outcomes (CCIAO)
• Catalyst
• Level Up Safely!
• Digital Bystanders
• ROOST Partnership

Products and services

• Catalyst Programme A large-scale consortium initiative led by the Christchurch Call Foundation to deliver measurable online harm reduction, addressing the intersection of online violent misogyny, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, and violent extremism through practical tools, training, and e-learning resources.
• Level Up Safely! A free, self-paced e-learning course for parents, caregivers, educators, and caring adults supporting young people in gaming communities. It offers interactive modules covering the gaming ecosystem, understanding online harms, and building communities of care with practical intervention tools.
• Digital Bystanders Community Moderator Training A free community moderator training platform supporting online moderators and trust and safety practitioners in preventing and responding to harmful behaviours, using a digital bystander intervention model focused on online gender-based violence and hybrid harms in gaming communities.
• Crisis Response Protocol (CRP) A shared protocol enabling governments and tech companies to respond rapidly, effectively, and coordinated to terrorist and violent extremist content following attacks, with CRP 2.0 enabling broader multistakeholder response and CCF acting as coordination point.
• Christchurch Call Initiative on Algorithmic Outcomes (CCIAO) A multi-phase programme developing privacy-enhancing technology (using the PySyft open-source library) to enable independent research on how algorithms amplify terrorist and violent extremist content and contribute to radicalization, with partners including OpenMined, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Dailymotion.
• Altitude (Open-Source Content Moderation Tool) A free, open-source tool developed by Google Jigsaw and Tech Against Terrorism with GIFCT to help small and medium-sized online platforms identify and triage terrorist and violent extremist content on their sites.
• Elevate Initiative A three-year initiative engaging the Call Community to assess needs and develop solutions addressing terrorism and violent extremism risks in new tech sectors, with initial focus on AI; develops open-source tools for TVEC risk mitigation through the ROOST partnership.
• Gaming Safety Resource Hub (E-Learning Platform) CCF's Moodle-based e-learning platform providing free resources for caring adults to build knowledge, resilience, and confidence to protect against online harms in gaming spaces, with Creative Commons licensed content for global reuse.

Quantifiable outcome

• Crisis response time reduced from 30+ minutes to 2 minutes for Buffalo attack (2022) vs. Christchurch attack (2019)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability10 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

25 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025The Christchurch Call partners with ROOST to develop open-source AI tools for identifying, reviewing, and reporting terrorist and extremist content online. ROOST is a non-profit consortium formed by Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord to improve online safety, modelled on child safety tools. The partnership focuses on developing AI tools for smaller platforms to build TVEC handling capacity, accelerating technical solutions development, and sharing solutions through open channels.
• OpenMinedcoreTechnology or IntegrationOpen-source non-profit working with CCIAO to develop privacy-enhancing technologies for algorithmic auditing. Provides PySyft library enabling remote data science and differential privacy for third-party researchers to study algorithmic systems while protecting privacy and proprietary information.
• MicrosoftcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides financial support to the CCIAO initiative and explores options to enable the initiative to be tested on different platforms. Co-founder of the CCIAO alongside New Zealand, USA, Twitter, and OpenMined.
• LinkedIncoreTechnology or IntegrationPartnered with CCIAO Phase 1, providing real production data for researchers to successfully perform audits of recommender systems while protecting privacy through PySyft and differential privacy.
• DailymotioncoreTechnology or IntegrationPartnered with CCIAO Phase 1, successfully completing algorithmic audits of recommender systems with privacy protections in place.
• Tech Against TerrorismcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Google's Jigsaw unit and GIFCT to develop Altitude, a free open-source tool for smaller platforms to protect against terrorist and violent extremist content. Tech Against Terrorism also provides 24/7 alerting capability for crisis content, with Australian Government funding enabling regional presence.
• GIFCT (Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndependent industry-funded NGO that shares technological solutions, provides real-time crisis response to tech platforms, and commissions research. The Call was driving impetus for GIFCT reform as independent entity.
• Google JigsawcoreTechnology or IntegrationDeveloped Altitude, a free open-source tool to help small and medium-sized online platforms identify and triage terrorist and violent extremist content. Google hosts testing exercises and provides ongoing development support.
• Match GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNASDAQ-listed parent company of Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, and Plenty of Fish joined as supporter in December 2025. Committed to being active Call member particularly working on detection technologies, industry coordination, and user education.
• AnthropiccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAI safety and research company (creator of Claude) joined as supporter in November 2023. Committed to working with partners across industry, government and civil society to make safer AI systems.
• OpenAIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAI research and deployment company (creator of ChatGPT) joined as supporter in November 2023. Technologies can accelerate Call mission while learning from community's experience combating online terrorism.
• DiscordcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal voice, video and text communications platform with 150+ million monthly active users joined as supporter in November 2023. Committed to partnership and transparency in countering extremism.
• VimeominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVideo hosting, sharing and services platform joined as supporter in November 2023, committed to platform safety and eliminating terrorist and violent extremist content online.
• SeznamminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLeading Czech online service provider with 6.5 million monthly users across search, news, marketplace and entertainment functions joined as supporter in April 2024.
• CinderminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSoftware company providing end-to-end capabilities to help organisations mitigate online harms, investigate malicious actors, and produce trustworthy output. Partnered with Call in April 2024.
• Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner in Catalyst programme, providing research and expertise on extremism, polarisation, and preventing violent extremism.
• Search for Common Ground (SFCG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational peace organisation and partner in Catalyst programme, contributing to preventing violent extremism and building safer digital communities.
• MeedancoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTechnology non-profit and partner in Catalyst programme, providing expertise in digital literacy, online safety, and trusted media.
• Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch lab at American University and partner in Catalyst programme, focused on understanding and addressing online radicalisation and extremism.
• Blavatnik School of Government, University of OxfordcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner in Catalyst programme, contributing policy expertise and research capabilities to understanding technology-facilitated harms.
• Hertie SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman university and partner in Catalyst Public Policy Champions Programme, providing executive education on tech policy and governance.
• VoxPol InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner in Catalyst programme, providing expertise on violent extremism, online radicalisation, and computational social science.
• Twitter/XcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerML Ethics, Transparency and Accountability team provided proof-of-concept for PETs infrastructure and enabled secure access to algorithmic amplification data for CCIAO.
• France (Co-founder)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-founder and co-chair of the Christchurch Call alongside New Zealand. Hosted 2019 founding summit in Paris and subsequent Leaders' Summits. Joined CCIAO in 2023 with additional funding of US$1.3m.
• New Zealand (Co-founder)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-founder and co-chair of the Christchurch Call alongside France. Provided financial contribution and coordination for the CCIAO initiative. Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern serves as Patron.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Counter Extremism Project (CEP): CEP is a non-partisan, international policy and advocacy organization combating extremist groups, with research and a tech-focused counter-extremism agenda. It addresses similar threats to the Foundation but is more advocacy- and policy-driven rather than coordination-driven.
• Moonshot CVE: Moonshot CVE is a social enterprise that builds technology and methodologies to disrupt violent extremism online, including counter-narrative campaigns and redirect programmes for at-risk users. It is a direct comparable in methodology for countering online extremism, though smaller and more product-focused than the Foundation.
• Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET): GNET is the Global Network on Extremism and Technology, an academic research network producing policy-relevant research on extremism online. It complements the Foundation's research outputs (e.g., CCIAO Delphi Study) and shares the global academic-policy interface.

Broad incumbents

• EU Internet Forum: The EU Internet Forum is a European Commission-led initiative coordinating between EU governments and tech companies on countering terrorist content and illegal hate speech online. It is a regional peer with similar government-platform coordination goals and Europol's EU IRU as operational backbone.
• Digital Trust & Safety Partnership: The Digital Trust & Safety Partnership is an industry-led initiative developing best practices and tooling for trust & safety operations at major platforms. It addresses content moderation and online harms with a focus on practitioner standards, overlapping with the Foundation's community moderator training (Digital Bystanders).
• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC): NCMEC operates the CyberTipline and coordinates between platforms, law enforcement, and the public on child sexual exploitation material. It is an adjacent online-safety peer with established multistakeholder coordination infrastructure that ROOST (the Foundation's AI tool partner) is explicitly modelled on.
• WePROTECT Global Alliance: WePROTECT is a multistakeholder global alliance combating child sexual exploitation online, with government, industry, and civil society membership. It shares the Christchurch Call's multistakeholder coordination model for online harms and overlaps in platform accountability and policy advocacy.

Direct peers

• Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT): GIFCT is an industry-funded NGO that shares technological solutions and provides real-time crisis response to tech platforms. It co-developed Altitude with the Christchurch Call Foundation and Tech Against Terrorism, and its reform as an independent entity was driven by the Call. Both organizations operate in the same trust-and-safety counter-terrorism space, coordinating between governments and platforms.
• Tech Against Terrorism: Tech Against Terrorism is a UN-mandated initiative that supports the tech ecosystem in tackling terrorist exploitation of the internet, including 24/7 alerting capability for crisis content and the Terrorist Content Analytics Platform serving ~150 smaller firms. It co-developed Altitude with the Foundation and serves a closely overlapping multistakeholder mission.
• Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD): ISD is a global think tank working on extremism, polarisation, and preventing violent extremism, and is an academic partner in the Foundation's Catalyst programme. Both organizations conduct research, advise governments, and deliver counter-extremism programmes targeting online harms.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@ChristchurchCall
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/christchurch-call-foundation

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

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