Every year the U.S. - Egypt Joint Science and Technology Fund (Joint Fund) sponsors two competitive grant programs - Joint Research Grants and the Junior Scientist Development Visit Grants. These grants provide the opportunity to bring together American and Egyptian scientists to work on a collaborative research project. [...]

The main goals of the Joint Fund:

• Strengthen the scientific and technological capabilities of both countries.

• Broaden and expand relations between the scientific ...

HP is committed to helping nonprofit organizations apply technology in meaningful and innovative ways to support their organizational goals and more importantly, the clients and communities they serve. Over the last several years, HP grant recipients have shown us the difference technology can make in improving on the important work they do in communities around the world and the positive impact it can have on the quality of life of individuals, particularly in low income communities.

The HP ...

There are multiple technological challenges in making progress with respect to reaching the promise of Digital Inclusion. With this request for proposals, Microsoft Research will support academic research in specific technologies with a keen interest in multidisciplinary approaches to these research issues. The objective of the academic research projects must be to advance the state of the art of technologies relevant to challenges in Digital Inclusion. In addition, Microsoft Research has keen i ...

The Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) FELLOWSHIP wants to support projects by young people who have innovative solutions to social problems, especially those using ICTs. Grant upto 15,000USD, deadline on the 30th November.

The ICT R&D Grants Programme has the objective of building institutional research capacity in the developing countries of the Asia-Pacific region, in the area of Internet networking. It is directed at encouraging original and innovative networking solutions to specific development problems. The funds for the ICT R&D Grants are provided by the Pan Asia Networking Program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) of the Unit ...

UNESCO calls for proposals for projects to be funded by its Information for All Programme, an international information society initiative launched in 2001. Proposals with budgets ranging from approximately US$25,000 (national projects) to US$45,000 (international projects) should cover one of three areas: information literacy, preservation of information, and ethical, legal and societal implications of the information society.

Projects shall have specific, measurable, achievable, realistic a ...

Gender and Agriculture/Rural Development in the Information Society

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Announcing Round 2 of GenARDIS

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A Small Grants Fund to Address Gender Issues in Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP Countries)

10 grants @ 5,000 Euro

Submission Deadline: 25 February 2005

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The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperatio ...

I would like take this opportunity to gather resources and information on how to help the first maternity hospital in Somaliland. This hospital is a non profit hospital and would serve the children of Somaliland who have no other maternity facilities available whatsoever in the country.

I appeal to anyone who can help us with this project to contact us. As part of Somaliland Forum ICT task group we are trying to research on how to help with expertise and resources to help this hospital take ...

We would like to inform you about a new initiative, Equal Access, which uses ICT to empower people in developing countries as they face the challenges of globalization.

It is now clearly understood that the ability of individuals to improve their economic and social conditions in the global economic environment is based as much on access to information as access to economic and social assets. The Equal Access initiative aims to provide information and education to underserved rural and regio ...

3BillionBooks is a private company, which intends to become the first worldwide distributor of books printed on demand at point of sale from digital files. It will deploy a unique, patented, low cost, totally automatic machine that prints and binds 15 - 20 library quality paperback books per hour from digital files, one at a time in any language, anywhere: in effect an ATM machine for books delivered digitally, a system designed to bypass the present unwieldy mode of book distribution in which ...

The HORIZON Solutions Site, www.solutions-site.org, presents readily accessible peer-reviewed answers to problems in environment, health, population and development. People profit not only from the knowledge presented in the case studies which provides guidance for replication of the successful initiatives, but also from reading about the inspiration, courage, and dedication which brought these solutions into being. Submissions for possible inclusion are invited. The Site is a collaborative ef ...

Background:

One of the major challenges that the educational systems of the Latin America and Caribbean countries confront is the training of current and new generations of citizens in the use of ICT, as an unquestionable premise for their development.

To be able to implement in a massive way the Educational Computer Sciences Program in all the levels of education, Cuba not only had to make considerable investments in the acquisition of computer technologies, but also had to carry out nume ...

This Digital MultiMedia Production and Training Telecentres proposal is made on the premise that installing online and offline digital multimedia facilities in some of the proposed cybercenters under the IDB/Government of Jamaica ICT for development programme, would entice marginalized youth to use the facilities to become familiar with ICTs through the ability to make and promote their own music, videos, websites and electronic publicity materials. The concept of the project is to align the cen ...

The World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) is the leading international non-governmental organization devoted entirely to supporting the United Nations. Set up in 1946, WFUNA is the original peoples movement for the UN. With nearly 100 member Associations (UNAs) it has an active presence in every region of the world. Under the leadership of Ambassador Donald Blinken, WFUNA is giving top priority to bridge the digital divide by creating online channels of communication between t ...

The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is an Ivy-league university, and one of the leading research institutions in the United States. A group of professors and students from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science have been working to bridge the digital divide in developing nations since 1998. Teams of 10 - 30 students and professors have traveled to Mali, Ghana, Ecuador, and India to set up computer centers and link them to the Internet. They have trained loca ...