An Internet for Everyone: Empowering Persons with Disabilities Through Accessibility
Although website accessibility was a core principle in the use and development of the Internet, most websites are far from being accessible to everyone. In response, the project “Enhancing the barrier-free Internet through blind people empowerment”, aims to address this issue.
Course Guides Brazilian Community Networks on How to Get Legal Recognition
Brazil is known for its complex bureaucracy and misunderstandings or attempts to avoid it have left many community networks operating irregularly or even illegally. As a result, many fear getting classified as ‘clandestine telecommunications services’, which can bring fines of $10,000 reais (USD $1,790) or imprisonment of two to four years.
Three New Community Networks Are Helping Safeguard Communities in Rural Brazil
On the fringes of the Amazon in northeastern Brazil, many communities live in fear of attacks by invaders who slash and burn forest to make way for illegal mining, cattle and soy plantations. This is also one of the country’s poorest regions and the low potential profits have left most communities without Internet access.
2020 Beyond the Net Large Grant Cycle 1 Recipients Announced
The 2020 Beyond the Net Large Grant recipients are driving innovative, community-focused initiatives that use the Internet to create opportunities, address local challenges, and strengthen digital inclusion around the world.
COVID-19 focus: Three Projects Helping Communities Deal with Pandemic-Fuelled Change
To help individuals and communities grapple with the impacts of COVID-19, the Internet Society Foundation recently awarded Beyond the Net Small grants and several projects focus on addressing challenges that have emerged in light of the pandemic: work, schooling and access to reliable health information.
In Coronavirus-Hit Harlem, Community Streaming Gives Residents a Virtual Lifeline
When COVID-19 hit New York City, the Streaming Station Community News Project was barely getting started, after receiving an Internet Society Foundation Beyond the Net grant for close to $30,000 in December 2019.
Tackling Zimbabwe’s Urban Food Insecurity Through the Internet of Things
In Zimbabwe’s Mbare community, students and the Internet Society Zimbabwe Chapter are piloting aquaponic urban farming powered by IoT. With support from a Beyond the Net Grant, the project combines fish tanks and vegetable beds monitored by sensors, Raspberry Pi computers, and solar panels. This innovative model empowers families to grow food sustainably, fight hunger, and build resilience in urban slums.
Students Use Technology to Preserve Piikani Culture and Language
There are an estimated 6,000 languages spoken globally, but according to the United Nations nearly half are endangered Only a few hundred have been given a place in education systems and the public domain. Less than a hundred languages are used in the digital world.
After centuries of colonization and discrimination, Indigenous languages face the greatest threats.
In Sri Lanka, Increasing Girls’ Enrollment in Tech
In Sri Lanka girls make up a little over 50% of the school population, but just 20% of those studying Information and Communications Technology. Girls in Technology, launched by the Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter in 2018, wants to change that.
Internet Society Foundation Announces $300,000 in Grants
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.
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