in with under these umbrellas. I talked a little bit about the caveats. I can go to the next slide, please. So really, like why why has Crossfield collaboration become more prominent? What has driven, you know, journalists, organizations, and civil society organization department partner more commonly, more sort of more explicitly with more intention. And as we began to, you know, sort of, as we spoke to people, we spoke to 52 people in lengthy interviews, and we gathered a bunch of data through survey through surveys that we sent out, and then obviously, a lot of desk work and stuff like that sort of research and stuff like that. We identified three different reasons that we think Crossfield collaboration is becoming more common. Number one, and these are not wholly different from the reason why collaborative journalism in general, is becoming more common. Number one, information producers can no longer rely on the common, you know, the common channels for their work to be seen, right. So it's not like you don't have like a big mainstream media or like, you know, a couple of very well read, you know, industry outlets. Really, it's such so fragmented now the media sphere so they are partnering to have broader reach, right. If you have more outlets involved do you have Our audience you have also the ability to put your information your content into different incarnations. So like it can take different forms. We heard from a lot of CSOs who said, you know, we love partnering with journalists, because it turns our sort of dry 50 page, white paper into, you know, a narrative form with visuals that people can, you know, become more engaged with. And vice versa, right, like, so the journalists who partner with the CSOs, they're happy to have their work be seen by those audiences as well. Number two is the resource constraints that are faced by so many newsrooms today, as we've heard so much about. And also what comes along with that is the specialized skills that, you know, civic tech orgs can bring to a project, right or journalist bring to a project or universities bring to a project, right? So when these topics become so complicated, I mean, these investigative projects are so complicated, they require all these different sets of skills. It is everyone's benefit, if brings a lot of people together with different skills. And finally, and perhaps most interestingly, there's a greater desire for impact, right? When so many time and resources are put into an investigative project like this. It's really frustrating to not see any impact from it. And, of course, most advocates, you know, CSOs if they're advocacy organizations that sort of their reason for being but for journalists, as well. We talked to a lot of people who said, you know, of course, we are neutral, and we don't have an end game in mind, but but at the same time, like we want this work to have impact. So that's a really interesting ethical quandary that I'll talk about a little bit more in a second. If you have or if you're looking at the full paper, or you have the hardcopy, we do some histories or some some historical context and definition work, which I'm not gonna get into right now. So, we started by digging, by digging in and looking at like, Okay, well, what are these? You know, what's, what's the percentage of journalism and CSOs? So we found that within our sample, so I should also just say, like, of course, this is just within our sample, it could be different if there's a bigger or different sample, roughly 60% were journalism organizations, and roughly 40% were CSOs, although I want to caveat that slightly by saying that, there were like a couple huge projects, like FinCEN files, where it was like 99 journalism organizations and for CSOs, so the number actually might be closer to 5050. And that implies Next slide, please. Where were the entities based, who worked on the projects in our sample 57% were in Europe, North America. 12% were in Central America, primarily Mexico, Mexico has a lot of Crossfield collaboration happening. 11% were in Africa, 10%, South America, Asia 2% was another. So again, this is me maybe speaks more to our sample than, you know, just sort of the snowball the snowball method, but it's happening everywhere is one of the main takeaways. We found something really interesting as we were looking through this and thinking through who was involved, we thought we saw that certain countries had entities that we're working on projects that were based elsewhere, right? So a lot of entities from the US, for example, are working on projects based in Africa, based in Mexico, based in Europe. And we decided to call those countries sort of crossbow collaboration exporters. We also saw that certain countries had projects that were focusing on them, but they had no sort of homegrown organizations involved. Afghanistan.