Project Title: Educative Internet Service Provider (EISP) project
Contributed by Pablo León (May 2009 grantee)
The Educative Internet Service Provider (EISP) project is an effort to reduce the digital gap in the Amazon region of Bolivia and to promote the use of the Internet in one of the most remote places in the country: Cobija Pando, […]
Community Grants Programme’s 11th round helps extend Internet’s reach and promote key technologies
[Washington, D.C., USA and Geneva, Switzerland 25 May 2010] The Internet Society (ISOC) today announced it is funding community-based projects around the world addressing issues such as Internet leadership, education, core infrastructure, local governance, and policy development, with a strong focus on […]
Project Title: Toolkit for the Dissemination of Cultural Heritage Online
Contributed by Christine Madsen, Great Britain (May 2009 grantee)
The Toolkit for the Dissemination of Cultural Heritage Online is a project that aims to help indigenous and underserved communities preserve and disseminate the textual foundations of their culture using digitization. Since receiving an award from ISOC in […]
Following on a very successful event in January 2009 (videos and slides of the sessions are still available), which was supported by funding from the ISOC Community Grants Programme, the Irish National IPv6 Task Force is hosting another all-day summit in Dublin Castle, Ireland on Wednesday, 19 May 2010.
This years event is designed to increase […]
[Ukunda, Kenya, February 27, 2010] For the first time, a Rural Internet Kiosk (RIK) has been installed for rural youth empowerment in Africa. Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development (VOA4SD) is building the capacity of local youth to empower themselves through the Internet and social enterprise. The community based organization, Voices of Diani will own […]
ISOC is now accepting applications for its Community Grants Programme. The application cycle will be open until 26 March 2010.
Full details about the programme, available here.
Contributed by Joly MacFie
The Internet Society New York Chapter would like to send out best wishes to all who are celebrating the start of the Year of the Tiger, supposedly a time of “great change”.
Eben Moglen’s speech “Freedom in The Cloud”
The webcast of Eben Moglen’s speech “Freedom in The Cloud” is proving to be one […]
Published on behalf of the Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF)
The Asia Pacific is still proving to be a centre of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) innovation in small business, with the release of 2009 figures showing the sector is surging. APNICs Chief Scientist, Geoff Hustons report, 2009 in Review – the IP Address Registry Perspective, […]
Thanks for an Extraordinary Year of Achievements from Lynn St.Amour, President and CEO of ISOC Dear Members, Friends, and Colleagues, The end of 2009 is here – and what a year it has been. The Internet Society continued to prosper in 2009, the results of our work reaching wider and deeper than ever before. So Read more…
Project Title: Internet-on-the-Move
Contributed by Asim Zaheer, Pakistan (May 2009 grantee)
“Internet-on-the-Move,” a three month mobile-workshop project, was executed in semi-urban areas, surrounding Lahore, Pakistan. The idea has been to maximise Internet access, usage and awareness amongst private schools being operated by NGOs in these areas with regular visits by car/van with workshop lab equipment and […]