Hi everyone, Just wanted to share the good news about our selection for the Community Networks Grants and Award. The full announcement is attached, for you to learn about the 10 projects selected across different categories. On the Community Networks category, one award and two grants were selected as below. Claire from the project in Aurora will be attending the IGF as part of the award package. I am copying on this email the 3 project teams, as I think this mailing list will be a great opportunity for them to share about their work and join a community of like-minded people. 1. Community Cellular Networks in Rural Aurora: Development and deployment of GSM Community Cellular Networks in rural Philippines. University of the Philippines – Diliman, The Philippines (Cedric, Claire and Erin) 1. Community LTE in Papua: Deployment of the first locally-owned and operated handset to support LTE networks in the world to rural Papua, Indonesia, using low-cost eNodeBs and a custom developed enhanced packet core. Yayasan Noken Baliem Mandiri, Indonesia (David and Ravita) 1. Connecting the Unserved - Bhutan's First Trial with TV White Space Technology: Deployment of emerging TV white space technology as an alternative broadband option in Bhutan. NANO, Bhutan (Norbu) The call for 2019 grants and awards will open in February next year, so information about the categories will be shared shortly before. Warm regards, Sylvia --------- Sylvia Cadena | APNIC Foundation - Head of Programs | sylvia(a)apnic.net | http://www.apnic.foundation ISIF Asia, WSIS Champion on International Cooperation 2018 | http://www.isif.asia | FB ISIF.asia | @ISIF_Asia | G+ ISIFAsia | 6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101 Australia | PO Box 3646 | +10 GMT | skypeID: sylviacadena | Tel: +61 7 3858 3100 | Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 * Love trees. Print only if necessary. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ISIF Asia <apnic-no-reply(a)apnic.net> To: bhadrika(a)apnic.net Cc: Bcc: Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:48:52 -0600 Subject: Text Proof - Congratulations to the ISIF Asia 2018 Grants and Awards winners _________________________________________________________________________ ISIF Asia 2018 Grants and Awards winners ________________________________________________________________________ This year ISIF Asia will award USD 210,000 to 10 organizations in the Asia Pacific to support research and development of Internet technologies for the benefit of the region. This year’s funding round marks ISIF Asia’s 10 years of operation in the Asia Pacific. https://isif.asia ISIF Asia received 236 nominations in total for the four funding categories, from 28 economies across the region, including 122 for the new category, Gender Empowerment and Innovation. The funding will be distributed among organizations representing: Government (1), Civil Society (3), Private Sector (2), Social Enterprise (1), and Academia (3) from Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, The Philippines, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. Awards ------ The ISIF Asia 2018 Award winners will each receive a travel grant to the 2018 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that will be held in Paris, France from 12 to 14 November 2018. Their work will be featured as part of the Seed Alliance Awards ceremony, which will be held on 13 November 2018. Award winners ------------- Community Networks Community Cellular Networks in Rural Aurora: Development and deployment of GSM Community Cellular Networks in rural Philippines. University of the Philippines – Diliman, The Philippines USD 3,500 plus a travel grant to IGF 2018 Gender Empowerment and Innovation Tech Age Girls Myanmar: Project to recruit 50 girls to become community leaders through the ‘Tech Age Girls’ project in Myanmar. Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation, Myanmar USD 3,500 plus a travel grant to IGF 2018 Grants ------ The proposals selected for the ISIF Asia 2018 Grants highlight the key technical, operational and development issues that concern the Asia Pacific Internet community. Grant winners ------------- Network Operations Research Measuring and Detecting Network Interference in Southeast Asia: Network measurements to show current and past Internet censorship and network interference in media, political criticism, religion and gender and social media networks in South East Asian economies. Sinar Project, Malaysia USD 20,000 Establishment of a Carrier Neutral Software-Defined Internet Exchange (IXP) Point and Training Programs for Capacity Building in Managing IXPs: Deployment of Software-Defined IXP and training programs for IXP development in Pakistan. Lahore University of Management Sciences - LUMS, Pakistan USD 30,000 Community Networks Community LTE in Papua: Deployment of the first locally-owned and operated handset to support LTE networks in the world to rural Papua, Indonesia, using low-cost eNodeBs and a custom developed enhanced packet core. Yayasan Noken Baliem Mandiri, Indonesia USD 23,000 Connecting the Unserved - Bhutan's First Trial with TV White Space Technology: Deployment of emerging TV white space technology as an alternative broadband option in Bhutan. NANO, Bhutan USD 30,000 Cybersecurity RPKI Monitor and Visualizer for Detecting and Alerting for RPKI Errors: Implementation of an RPKI security mechanism to offer a distributed, stakeholder-based counter to the power imbalances arising from RPKI’s hierarchical system. ZDNS Labs, China USD 30,000 A novel graph analytics theory model to mitigate IoT botnets attacks for big data: Research using the Graph Analytics Theory model to reverse engineer IoT botnet infection codes to develop a new model in detecting IoT botnets. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Malaysia USD 13,000 Gender Empowerment and Innovation NextGen Girls - Internet Security Ambassadors Project: Development of a network of university and high school girls studying ICT. Shilpa Sayura Foundation, Sri Lanka USD 30,000 Increasing the Safe Use of Internet by Women and Girls: Project to strengthen the capabilities of 16 existing helpline ambassadors on the safe use of the Internet and how to report online abuse to Child Helpline Cambodia. Child Helpline Cambodia, Cambodia USD 22,000 The APNIC Foundation and ISIF Asia thanks the applicants for sharing their ideas with us, the Selection Committee members for their hard work to arrive to this great outcome, and to APNIC, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Internet Society for their generous funding contributions for 2018. ________________________________________________________________________ ISIF Asia Secretariat http://www.isif.asia ISIF Asia Information Society Innovation Fund https://www.apnic.net ________________________________________________________________________ You have received this email because you are an ISIF Asia contact. 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