The Internet Society Foundation has issued a $300,000 grant to support 13 groundbreaking internet projects across Africa and Europe. The grant is for supporting the course of the internet and improve the quality of life globally.
The Internet Society Foundation is the brainchild of the Internet Society that promotes internet transparency, makes the internet open, and globally available.
They also provide financial support for people and projects that believe in the power of the internet and respond to natural disasters. Thus, the grants came in a bid to scale the internet penetration in Africa.
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The Internet Society Foundation received 40 project applications and approved 13 projects. It uses its originality and innovation, community impact, sustainability and technical feasibility metrics.
The African Countries that received Internet project grants are as follows;
South Africa – The country received a $30,000 internet grant to create Wi-Fi access points and an off-the-grid Media Center in the Mamaila Tribal Authority, South Africa. The project will also build community capacity for South Africans by training them on cybersecurity, content development, entrepreneurship, construction and operation maintenance of community networks.
Madagascar – This received a $12,322 grant. The fund will go into the creation of community networks for 5,000 people in three remote farming communities in Madagascar. It will also provide technical training and basic Internet skills to a group of people who will train others to use the Internet.
Mali – It received the third grant of $30,000. The grant will be used to generate reliable statistical data on Internet usage in Mali. The research will enunciate the use and misuse of social media platforms in Mali’s rural and urban areas.
An additional $15,000 grant goes towards strengthening the engagement and participation of data users in policymaking in Hong Kong. This will be made possible by using Hong Kong’s Open Data Index, initiated in September 2018 to examine data openness and introduce best practices.
In Europe, the grant was offered to NewYork, Armenia, Nicaragua, Turkey, Dominica City, Quebec, Armenia, and Paraguay.
