ISIF grants funding for ICT development in Asia

Wednesday 15 April 2009 | 02:35 PM CET

The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) plans to fund eleven projects in eight countries to extend ICT infrastructure services. These projects showcase uses of ICT, such as mobile-based tele-healthcare, forensic investigation infrastructure, localised e-mail for tele-centres and the establishment of a national high-speed backbone. The organisations which received funding include The Internet Education and Research Laboratory, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan; The University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka; The Bac Ha International University, Vietnam; One Destination Centre, Indonesia; Punjabi University, India; Nepal Research and Education Network, Nepal; The Department of Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka; SynapseHealth, The Philippines, Horizon Lanka Foundation, Sri Lanka and AirJaldi Networks, India. The ISIF is a partnership programme between the Canadian International Development Research Centre, the Internet Society and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), with support from the DotAsia organisation. The first round of funding occurred in late 2008 with each successful project receiving up to USD 30,000 to be used in 2009. In the next round, ISIF will support up to ten projects with grants up to AUD 400,000. The projects will be selected this year to receive funding and implement the projects in 2010. All the details of the new call for applications are available on the ISIF web site. Applications should be submitted by 31 July 2009.


source : www.telecompaper.com

You can view the same information in detail at http://isif.asia/groups/isif/wiki/29f18/ISIF_grants_program_%E2%80%98kick-starts%E2%80%99_local_innovation_in_the_Asia_Pacific.html