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Opening 1 May: USD $5 million in grant funding to support digital transformation

3 April 2023

Blanca Cecilia-Martinez, Scill grantee from Colnodo Fundacion Capital, Colombia

If your organization is working to promote digital skills in education and income-generating opportunities, an exciting funding opportunity is opening on 1 May 2023. Officially launched in 2019, the Internet Society Foundation was established to fund initiatives that strengthen the Internet so that it can effectively serve all people. The Foundation’s work supports the vision of an…

Expanding Internet access, connectivity and resiliency: meet our newest grant cohort

13 March 2023

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The Internet Society Foundation is committed to supporting projects that expand Internet access, connectivity and resiliency for communities around the world. Since 2021, we’ve awarded a total of 4 million in funding towards these efforts through our Building Opportunities/Leveraging Technologies (BOLT) and Resiliency grant programs. We’re excited to have awarded seven grants to organizations that…

A more inclusive Internet for who? Non-English speakers in digital spaces

20 February 2023

Written by Meital Kupfer, Data and Digital Rights Researcher, Pollicy Whose language? What is the language this website is written in? The letters that make up its source code? The very infrastructure of the Web itself? Is the language you write emails, essays and personal WhatsApp messages in the same as the language you grew…

Building, expanding and securing the Internet: two funding programs now open for applications

14 February 2023

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Over the past few months, our Internet Society and Internet Society Foundation teams have been collaborating closely to launch our first set of funding programs this year. The two programs we are launching this week – Connecting the Unconnected and Sustainable Technical Communities reinforce our commitment to support communities around the world in gaining greater…

Announcing our 2022 Research Grantee Cohort

1 February 2023

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Announcing our 2022 Research Grantee Cohort – 18 projects examining the future of the Internet.

Expanding our Reach and Furthering Our Vision

1 January 2023

The Internet Society Foundation (“the Foundation”) exists to support the Internet Society and its mission. The Foundation’s support for the Internet Society started primarily through grant-making in support of the Internet Society’s mission. This was a way to get the Foundation’s operations running smoothly and to ensure that the grant-making operations were mature for when…

$1.2 million in funding awarded to support digital inclusion in Bangladesh, Colombia and Senegal

7 November 2022

We are pleased to announce grant funding to five organizations to promote digital inclusion through the Strengthening Communities, Improving Lives and Livelihoods (SCILLS) program. Established in 2020, the SCILLS program aims to expand economic growth and increase educational opportunities by supporting individuals and communities to more knowledgeably and skillfully use the Internet. The long-term aim of…

Announcing second round of BOLT innovation grants to address Internet connectivity gap

8 August 2022

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We are excited to announce a second round of grant funding to advance Internet access and connectivity around the world through our BOLT program. In its second year, the BOLT grant program aims to support teams of creatives, technologists, and researchers to develop innovative solutions to Internet connectivity, particularly among communities where current technologies are unavailable…

Announcing $1.5 million in funding to support Internet resiliency

25 July 2022

Two men fitting antennae on top of a room in front of the Himalaya mountains in Nepal

We are excited to announce a second round of grant funding through our Resiliency program, which aims to help communities enhance preparedness and build Internet resiliency when faced with adverse events. These grants will support projects that increase network resiliency in communities prone to natural and climate-related disasters, ensuring these communities are better able to…

A necessity not a luxury: the Internet’s role in humanitarian response

22 July 2022

Men wearing Internet Society Foundation and Help NGO shirts assemble a satellite installation on the roof of a building in the Philippines

By Brendan Harvey, Executive Director, Help.NGO What are a human being’s basic needs and how do you meet them? Humanitarians have asked themselves this question since Florence Nightingale served as a nurse during the Crimean war—considered by many to be the first instance of humanitarian action. For Nightingale, the central focus was on medical care….