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MISTICA: GKP Seed grants and Petersberg Price

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 07:52:33 AST

>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:00:21 -0400
>From: Yacine Khelladi <[email protected]>
>To: "Caribbean ICT virtual community CIVIC" <[email protected]>
>Subject: [icacaribbean] Call for proposals: Grant and Small Innovative
>Projects Fund
>_
>
>Call for proposals: � Grant and Small Innovative Projects Fund (SGSIP
>Fund) / Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) / Submission deadline: 30
>June
>2003 / For more information, please see:
>http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/formmaster.cfm?
>&menuid=204&&action=viewVirMarkt&retrieveid=55
>
>The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is pleased to announce its Seed
>Grant and Small Innovative Projects Fund (SGSIP Fund) for the year 2003.
>Supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), GKP
>invites project proposals for pilot projects or from new or ongoing
>small-scale initiatives, not exceeding US$25,000, with a focus on developing
>countries.
>
>For ongoing small-scale initiatives, proposals can be limited to the
>identification and development of specific project components deemed
>urgent to complement or strengthen efforts to achieve the overall projects
>original objectives.
>
>Projects proposed are expected to contribute to the achievement of one
>or both of the following objectives:
>
>1. Facilitate innovation using ICTs from the ground-up to further
>strengthen and promote the growth and maturity of civil society
>participation in
>the Information Society.
>
>2. Promote and facilitate the fertilization of multi-stakeholder
>partnerships for the upscaling and/or replication of small-scale and
>community-based initiatives.
>
> New announcement list: ICTs for Rural Women / Women in Global Science
>and Technology / For more information, please email: [email protected]
>
>ICTsforRuralWomen is an information and announcement list which
>circulates information on resources, events and organisations working on
>issues
>related to how women can use ICTs to support their grassroots productive
>enterprises.
>
>Topics on the list include:
>- information on productive technologies to reduce the burden of
>domestic chores or increase the productivity and quality of their
enterprises;
>- information on prices and markets and other forms of small enterprise
>support, such as training and product monitoring.
>- womens needs for appropriate technologies;
>- developing appropriate software packages and training women how to use
>them;
>- extension services and commerical producers to assist with
>translating information into action;
>- linking the use of ICTs with other communications strategies such as
>radio and church meetings to expand the outreach of information available;
>- monitoring impact of strategies for widespread replication of pilot
>projects;
>- documentation of best practices and packaging of results for policy
>makers, development practitioners and women themselves.
>- and many more.
>____________________________________________________________________
>Call for nominations: Petersberg Prize for ICT for development work
>that benefits the poor / Submission deadline: 1 January 2004 / For more
>information, please see:
>http://indev.nic.in/indev/profNewsItem.asp?id=589
>
>Nominations are invited for the Petersberg Prize. The Prize recognizes
>exemplary contributions in the field of information and communication
>technologies (ICT) for development. The Prize will be awarded during the
>Development Gateway Forum, which will take place in 2004. Nominations
>are due by January 1, 2004. The Prize winner will receive an award of
>EUR100,000, without stipulations of how to use the funds. However, the
>winner(s) will be encouraged to use at least EUR50,000 in further
>promoting the activity identified in the nomination, or in mentoring
>prospective leaders in the ICT for development field, or in helping to
>disseminate the lessons learned in implementing the activity in
>question. He/she will be expected to participate in the 2005 Development
>Gateway Forum to report on how the resources were used.
>
>The Prize will be awarded for a significant contribution to an ICT for
>development success that benefits a large number of people. The degree
>of the success, the magnitude of the benefits, and the importance of the
>contribution to that success will all be taken into account. Benefits to
>the poor will be given priority. The winner of the Prize, through
>his/her contributions, should set an example that will inspire others to
>excel.
>=================================================
>Your ICA-Caribbean virtual working group
>http://www.dgroups.org/groups/icacaribbean/
>
>The Caribbean ICT Roundtable, Barbados October 28-30, 2002
>http://www.icamericas.net/workshops/caribbean/

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