<div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">2014 ISIF Asia Grant applications close <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="aQJ" style>9 August</span></span></div>
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<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">An ISIF Asia Grant can help you get your project off the ground and </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
increase your organization's potential to attract additional donors to </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">continue or upscale your project's implementation.</div>
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If you are working on an initiative to improve communications and </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">information infrastructure for your local community and you need some </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">funds to continue with your hard work, there is still time to apply </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
for a 2014 ISIF Asia Grant! </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
ISIF Asia gives grants of up to AUD 30,000 to projects that will be </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">implemented in the Asia Pacific region within a 3 to 12 month period. </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Successful proposals will be aligned with the following categories:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> - Innovation on access provision</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> This category focus on innovative solutions providing low cost </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
deployment with low power consumption and low maintenance to </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> expand fixed and mobile access to the Internet, information services </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> and/or applications in your community. Innovation should not </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
necessarily be technical, it could refer to organizational/business </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> arrangements that support access provision, or improve the quality </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> of access through accessibility or linguistic diversity.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> - Innovation on learning and localization</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> This category covers capacity building and localization efforts, </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
which are key to improve the skills needed to design, maintain, and </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> manage ICT infrastructure and services in local languages. </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Localized projects support local talent and create job opportunities </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
in rural or urban marginalized areas. Your innovative, open, inclusive, </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> and sustainable approach to learning and language diversity are key </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> elements to guarantee access to information that is needed to offer </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
reliable services and applications to your community.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
- Code for the common good</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
This category includes applications and other software solutions </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> that enable communities in a variety of ways. High mobile </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> penetration in the Asia Pacific region has been a catalyst in the </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
development of mobile-based services, applications and software </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> solutions. These solutions have been used to support timely and </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> relevant information dissemination on a large scale using a range </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
of network infrastructures through a variety of devices, even </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> where literacy rates are lower. Mobile technologies have enabled </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> communities to increase participation in political processes, </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
coordinate efforts during emergency situations, receive extreme </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> weather alerts, communicate with remote health services, and </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> receive specialized patient referrals, among many other </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
applications.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
- Rights</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
This category supports the strategic use of Internet tools and </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> services to promote freedom of expression, freedom of association, </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> protects privacy, security, consumers' rights, gender equality, new </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
forms of intellectual property in the digital environment, and a wider </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> range of issues related to the Internet and human rights.</div>
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In addition to the grant, 3 of the ISIF Asia 2014 grant recipients will </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">be selected to receive additional mentoring on evaluation and research </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">communication through a partnership between ISIF Asia and the project </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
"Developing Evaluation & Communication Capacity in Information Society </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Research (DECI-2)". Teams will acquire valuable knowledge and skills </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">that their organizations will be able to use not only for the ISIF Asia </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
supported project but to their organizations as a whole. For more </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">information about the DECI-2 project, visit:</div>
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<a href="http://evaluationandcommunicationinpractice.ca/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://evaluationandcommunicationinpractice.ca/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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Prepare a successful application: read the guidelines provided!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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The ISIF Asia Secretariat recommends to carefully read the elegibility criteria, guidelines </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">and tips for a successful application, before you submit your application:</div>
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<a href="http://isif.asia/guidelines_grants" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://isif.asia/guidelines_grants</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To read more about ISIF Asia Grant eligibility criteria, please visit:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <a href="http://www.isif.asia/eligibility_criteria_for_grant_proposals" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.isif.asia/eligibility_criteria_for_grant_proposals</a></div>
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Finally, here are some handy tips for preparing your ISIF Asia Grant </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">proposal:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <a href="http://www.isif.asia/tips_for_successful_grant_submission" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.isif.asia/tips_for_successful_grant_submission</a></div>
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Submit your grant proposal by <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="aQJ" style>9 August</span></span>:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <a href="http://isif.asia/grant" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://isif.asia/grant</a></div>
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For more information about ISIF Asia grants, please contact <a href="mailto:info@isif.asia" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">info@isif.asia</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all">
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