Internet Society Foundation awards third round of grant funding to support digital inclusion in Bangladesh, Colombia and Senegal - Yahoo Finance

RESTON, Va., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet Society Foundation contiguous announced further assistance backing to beforehand integer inclusion done the Strengthening Communities, Improving Lives and Livelihoods (SCILLS) program, supporting 5 innovative projects successful Bangladesh, Colombia and Senegal.

Launched successful 2020, the SCILLS programme aims to lend to economical inclusion and summation acquisition opportunities by helping individuals and communities to much knowledgeably and skillfully usage the Internet. To date, the programme has awarded USD $3.6 million to astir 20 projects successful Bangladesh, Colombia, and Senegal.

"The SCILLS programme reflects our committedness to promoting equitable integer translation done Internet skills development. We are thrilled to renew our enactment to these 5 projects that are promoting integer inclusion for communities successful Bangladesh, Colombia and Senegal," said Sarah Armstrong, Executive Director of the Internet Society Foundation.

The selected projects, which person been renewed for 2 further years of backing are:

Bangladesh

• Tech Soup successful concern with Teach for Bangladesh – $267,498 to beforehand the usage of mobile Internet for learning successful Bangladesh, gathering the indispensable knowledge, skills, and behaviors for 3,000 marginalized children, 100 teachers, and 8,000 parents to follow online learning.

Colombia

• Asociación Colnodo successful concern with Fundación Capital –$267,500 to beforehand the resilience of 500 pistillate micro-entrepreneurs, done integer trainings, and idiosyncratic coaching sessions.

• Makaia – $249,552 to adjacent the integer sex spread and physique IT and programing skills among 165 NEET (not successful Education, Employment, oregon Training) younker successful agrarian and peri-urban areas.

Senegal

• Croissance TIC Dakar – $249,493 to physique entrepreneurial skills and integer competency, arsenic good arsenic facilitate entree to concern for 30 aboriginal signifier and growth-oriented entrepreneurs.

• Synergie determination l'Éducation aux Numériques et aux Médias – $149,421 to bid teachers connected however to usage the Internet to amended their teaching, and enactment students successful gathering ICT skills done "tech clubs" and inter-collegial hackathons.

The SCILLS programme is presently progressive successful Bangladesh, Colombia and Senegal, and volition grow to Brazil, Ghana, and Indonesia successful 2023. Through these grants, the Internet Society Foundation looks guardant to supporting communities successful acquiring captious integer skills that clasp the imaginable to amended acquisition and economical outcomes.

About The Internet Society Foundation:

The Internet Society Foundation was established successful 2019 to enactment the affirmative quality the Internet tin marque to radical everywhere. Guided by our imaginativeness of an Internet for Everyone, the Foundation champions ideas and enables communities to unlock the Internet's imaginable to tackle the world's evolving challenges. Focusing in five programme areas, the Foundation awards grants to Internet Society Chapters arsenic good arsenic non-profit organizations and individuals dedicated to providing meaningful entree to an open, globally connected, unafraid and trustworthy Internet for everyone.

SOURCE Internet Society Foundation