Project 4β Wins Silver and Community Voice in Anthem Awards

Gabija Birgile

Last updated on

2025-11-19

2 min read

We're proud to announce that our pro bono initiative Project 4β has been recognized in The 5th Annual Anthem Awards with a Silver Award and the Community Voice Award, voted by the public, in the Responsible Technology: Team & Internal Initiatives – Corporate Social Responsibility category.

Selected from over 2,000 submissions across 42 countries, the 5th Annual Anthem Awards honor exceptional social impact work. Project 4β’s contributions, including monitoring disinformation and emerging threats, supporting investigative journalism, and enabling environmental, economic, and political research, reflect that standard.

About Project 4β

Project 4β offers researchers, journalists, and mission-driven institutions, including NGOs and nonprofits, free access to Oxylabs' public web data collection tools and expertise. By removing technical and financial barriers, it enables the scalable collection of public web data to advance research and strengthen public-interest work worldwide.

Through Project 4β, we want to put powerful web data tools into the hands of people working for the public good and to demonstrate that web intelligence is no longer a ‘nice to have’, but a critical instrument for tackling today’s most complex problems – from countering misinformation to understanding environmental, economic and social risks. This recognition from the Anthem Awards reinforces that building this future on responsible data collection practices is just as important as the technology itself.

Julius Černiauskas, CEO of Oxylabs

Launched in 2022, Project 4β now empowers a global network of partners, helping to remove barriers to public web data collection and enabling transparent, evidence-based work.

Unlocking Data Access for Real-World Impact

4β supports researchers from leading academic institutions, such as Northwestern, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon University, and organizations including The Pulitzer Center, Forbes, ICIJ, and, most recently, welcomed Follow The Money, CeMAS, Doublethink Lab and Insight Crime.

Oxylabs’ infrastructure powers Bellingcat’s Auto-Archiver, helping journalists capture and preserve online content before it is altered or removed. Our web scraping solutions enabled Global Witness to analyze thousands of organizations attending COP29 and identify fossil fuel lobbyists.

In Lithuania, 4β has worked with the Environmental Protection Department to apply web crawling technologies to uncover environmental violations, further demonstrating how web data can support enforcement and accountability.

The initiative also addresses highly sensitive challenges, such as combating online child sexual abuse material. In partnership with the Lithuanian Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT), the Oxylabs team created an AI-powered tool that automatically scans Lithuania’s IP address space to find harmful images related to child sexual abuse.

Become a 4β Partner

Looking ahead, Project 4β aims to further broaden access to responsible web data tools for those working in the public interest. We invite students, researchers, and organizations committed to impact-driven work to apply by filling our form or via 4beta@oxylabs.io and explore collaboration opportunities, gaining tailored support and free access to Oxylabs’ technology and expertise to advance their missions.

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About the author

Gabija Birgile

Senior PR Manager

Gabija Birgile is a Senior PR Manager at Oxylabs. After working in a PR agency and juggling various projects for quite some time, she wanted to try a role in the tech industry. Making a positive impact with her work was always on top of her mind, so managing "Project 4β" pro bono partnerships now definitely does the job. If you have a project in mind, drop her a message at 4beta@oxylabs.io.

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