Announcing $1.5 million in COVID-19 response grants

1 July 2020
A medical professional meets a patient

We are thrilled to announce our Emergency Response: COVID-19 grants to innovative projects that are using the Internet to help communities respond and adapt to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Of the hundreds of applications reviewed, four diverse projects were selected by an Independent Review Panel that evaluated projects based on criteria that…

Internet Society Foundation Announces $300,000 in Grants

16 December 2019
A school in Madagascar connected to the Internet

The new Internet Society Foundation has issued its first set of Beyond the Net Medium and Large Grants (ranging from $12,000 to USD $30,000 each) to 13 groundbreaking projects that seek to spread the benefits of the Internet around the world.

Internet for Good: Introducing the Internet Society Foundation

22 November 2019
A kid walking to his school.

How can the Internet’s role as a force for good be magnified throughout the world? The newly-launched Internet Society Foundation has a plan. We fund initiatives that use the Internet to make a difference in communities and transform lives for the better in areas including education, health care and economic growth – and we support projects that ensure the Internet remains a catalyst for the open, inclusive, and dynamic world in which we live.

Palestine Chapter Project for Schoolgirls Honored as WSIS Prizes 2019 Champion

9 April 2019
A group of female students learn about ICT in Palestine.

The Internet Society Palestine Chapter project “Online Sexual Harassment-and-Blackmail Awareness for Palestinian Schoolgirls (iSHA)” has been selected as a World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2019 Champion for the Category “Building confidence and security in use of ICTs”. On Tuesday 9 April, the project was honored by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union…