The 2016 IGF (http://www.igf2016.mx/) took place in Guadalajara, Mexico from 6 – 9 December. AFRINIC staff and several FIRE Africagrantees made the trip to participate in this important global Internet governance event. We’ve put togethter an overview of the week’s highlight’s below: Seed Alliance Award Ceremony The FIRE Africa Award winners received their trophies during the Seed Alliance Award […]
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FIRE Africa Winners are finalists of the Mozilla Equal rating challenge. Two FIRE Africa winners (http://fireafrica.org/grant-awards-winners-2016) are among the five semi-finalists for the Mozilla Equal rating challenge (https://equalrating.com/). Mozilla seeks to make the full range of the Internet’s extraordinary power and innovative potential available to all. They advocate for “equal rating” where consumers choose content […]
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8 November 2017
The ISIF Asia secretariat engaged JFDI to provide a 3-week GoGlobal Program for the two scale-up grant recipients Khushi Baby (India) and the the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (Myanmar). JFDI briefed the two teams remotely before they came to Singapore for three weeks from 2-23 December 2016. Rather than following a fixed curriculum, […]
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4 November 2015
ICANN Meetings are held three times a year in various regions around the world in compliance with the ICANN Bylaws, which mandate that the ICANN Board maintains transparency in managing the Internet and provides opportunity for international participation and discussion regarding policy developments that impact the Domain Name System (DNS) and the global Internet community. […]
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4 November 2015
INET 2012 is a unique event that brings together users, policy makers, and technologists. The program will comprise more than forty sessions, and will feature three plenary meetings covering some of the issues that concern all of us. Agenda of INET 2012 is available at http://www.internetsociety.org/events/global-inet-2012/global-inet-2012-programme
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3 November 2015
JFDI was founded in Singapore in 2010 by Hugh Mason and Wong Meng Weng. The community has since helped thousands of people in Asia to engineer innovative businesses around their ideas. They can do this because innovation is evolving from an art into a science, and because we have built a community who share their […]
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3 November 2015
BAPSI, 2014 grant recipient, was invited as a panellist at the Google Accessibility Summit in September 2013.
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3 November 2015
The Internet Hall of Fame (www.internethalloffame.org) is a recognition program and virtual museum that celebrates the living history of the Internet and the individuals whose extraordinary contributions have made the Internet, its worldwide availability and use, and its transformative nature possible. The Internet Hall of Fame was launched by the Internet Society in 2012. Mahabir […]
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3 November 2015
The Internet Hall of Fame (www.internethalloffame.org) is a recognition program and virtual museum that celebrates the living history of the Internet and the individuals whose extraordinary contributions have made the Internet, its worldwide availability and use, and its transformative nature possible. The Internet Hall of Fame was launched by the Internet Society in 2012. Two […]
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3 November 2015
The guests of honour, Harry Surjadi and Sopheap Chak, on behalf of the Cambodia Centre for Human Rights, were the 2013 Communication for Social Change award winners. It would not go amiss to say the mood in the room was of admiration and clear respect. The Centre for Communication and Social change, as part of […]
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