I don't know if I would even try to frame having such a foundation as needing hope.
I think that the means to have information accessible easily are increasingly upon us if not here already (commodification of hardware/software, incentives for orgs/people to collect/sample/leverage data from such, with all the messy details that come into existence because of such), whether the few or masses like it or not (or choose to become distracted by some forms of it instead of using it to pursue some greater means), its only becoming more pervasive. Not going to really comment on accurate or not, since the value of such is dependent on what it can be use for (which is not always in a known state of <good| or |bad>, or rather often in the superposition of such where we only can see some magnitude of the combination: <good|bad>); Even "accurate" information could be relatively meaningless for achieving some ends.
All of this is undeniably changing the power dynamics everywhere. Government's and entrenched orgs will do all that they can to mask/veil what is going on (if they cannot adapt), but ultimately it will be futile. Many of us may die in the meantime (as has always been the case). But as relatively technical individual (and US pseudo-expat), its kind of freeing to being able to pit n number of different nations/transnational organizations polices/diktats agaisnt each other and exploit/live in the loopholes without resorting to overt technical subversion. Though plenty of media content on what the latter could look like ;)