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Community Grants ProgrammePast AwardsThe Internet Society here presents the recipients of awards from its Community Grants Programme. The goal is to enhance the Internet environment around the world. This program initiative is intended to help ISOC Chapters and Members establish creative local programs in support of ensuring the "Internet is for Everyone." The project leaders will be making periodic reports on their progress that will all be made available on the ISOC website. May 2007 AwardsArmenia: Armenian National Research and Education Networks: Achievements, Problems and Solutions Workshop
With partners CEENet/NATO, Armenian Academy of Science, and the Armenian national research and education networks the workshop will examine achievements, problems and to identify solutions to help Armenian NRENs to create a modern infrastructure. Additional information and materials from the workshop are found at http://asnet.am/anw2007. NATO/ISOC Workshop Report, Yerevan, Armenia, 12-14 Nov 2007 (PDF: 45KB) Benin: Capacity Building for IPv6 Adoption in Benin
The award supports a capacity building project focusing on IPv6 adoption providing hands on training to engineers. The Chapter subsequently organized an IPv6 week that helped sensitize stakeholders on the issues surrounding exhaustion of the IPv4 pool and the adoption of the IPv6; a training session was also organized for more than 30 network technicians and engineers. A website has been dedicated to the event at www.isoc.bj/ipv6 This grant helped the chapter to regain momentum with its activities, re-profile its programming and more over contribute to the inception of an IPv6 task force in Benin. Other major gains were the significant revisions to the Chapter website and the regular organization of the 'Wednesdays of the Internet,' a public information and outreach program. Bulgaria: Science, Education, & Learning in Freedom (SELF) Project
The awarded funds support the organization of public awareness events in Bulgaria around the SELF Platform, and simultaneously to raise awareness around the issues of sharing knowledge, access to knowledge, collaboration in the creation of accessible information, and educational and training programs on Free Software and Open Standards. The Internet Society Netherlands Chapter will actively participate in the Project by contributing expertise in developing printed materials, which include leaflets, brochures, targeted information materials, CDs and DVDs. More information about the SELF Project launch event and updates can be found at http://selfproject.eu Interim Report (PDB: 8KB) Congo: Information about Internet & Capacity Building on How to Use the Internet, in Three Localities in the Congo
Partnering with UNDP and UNESCO, the project aims to deliver a capacity building project that will train a cross-section of the Congolese population in three different localities on how to use the Internet. The project will also create local ISOC community clubs in each of these localities. Ecuador: Kits for Digital Inclusion in Spanish & Quichua
Funds were awarded to develop specialized Internet kits, including small booklets and videos on CDs, in Spanish and Quichua (the Ecuadorian native language for indigenous people) to guide people’s first Internet experience. The materials will be distributed through community organizations, NGOs, Internet coffee shops, and project partners to reach the target communities, including school children, senior citizens, people with disabilities, and people in jail or in another special living situation. Through creating and distributing the kits, the project team aims to allow those that have never used or accessed the Internet to experience the window of opportunities opened through access to knowledge. Israel: Israeli Sites Open Doors for People with Disabilities
With partner Access Israel Association, the project team will focus on providing web accessibility to Internet sites for people with disabilities. In particular, the purpose is to create a critical mass of accessible sites and make the accessible sites’ development into a norm in Israel. The project will focus on increasing awareness of Internet sites from the private and public sector, and the third sector (non-profit organizations) for providing accessibility to internet sites; and follow-up activity to verify decision-making and implementation. Liberia: Internet Training and Awareness Center
The Capacity Building Programme aims at setting up an Internet Training and Awareness Center (ITRC) that will provide basic Internet and awareness raising programmes to end-users and advanced users in Liberia. Liberia, one of the Least Developed Countries in West Africa, is a late-comer to Internet technology due to a prolonged civil war (1990-2003). Through a train-the-trainer approach, the ITAC will provide affordable and relevant training using face-to-face workshops. Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone’s 1st Digital Village: Free Internet Access & Training for All Students
Working with partner Sierra Vision, Ms. Davis and her team plan to build Sierra Leone’s first Digital Village which will offer free Internet access and training to provide exposure to the highest quality, standards-based and research-based educational and literacy resources to teachers, instructors and students in Sierra Leone. The ISOC.SL project leader also submitted a detailed Expense and Project Progress Reports to the ISOC board on January 11, 2008. Taiwan: The Past and Future of the Internet Development in Taiwan – A Wiki Approach
In an effort to document the past and future of Internet development in Taiwan, the project group will set up a wiki platform for all of the Internet user communities in Taiwan as a way to show through example to the Internet community the usefulness of such an approach in documenting Internet history. Sierra Leone: ICT Through Computer Studies & Internet Training
Working with Childhelp Sierre Leone and SES EXPERTS (Germany), the project was awarded funds to provide capacity building training in Computer studies and the Internet free of charge to school children, and to young adults focusing in particular on disadvantaged girls and women between the ages of 10-35. The hope is for those using the newly established Center will benefit from life skills training that will be accessed via computer and Internet training. Indian Ocean: IPv6 Forum & Training
Partnering with ISOC Senegal, the project team aims to deliver a hands-on workshop on IPv6 for countries in the Indian Ocean. |
