About 2010 Grantees
The 2010 ISIF program received its greatest number of applications so far with 207 submissions received from 25 different economies. The competition was very tough, comprising a strict set of selection criteria and a rigorous process followed by the Grants Evaluation Committee (GEC), to finally select 8 projects from Australia (to be deployed in Timor-Leste), Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
The successful projects showcase innovation,
cooperation,
and technical knowledge, and have the potential to create social change
in
their communities in areas such as IT infrastructure, health, or
multilingualism. The projects also reflect current issues in technical
and
social discussion, including two projects that focus on IPv6 research
and
deployment; exploring the opportunity for developing economies to get
ahead in
the IPv6 challenge. Two other projects focus on the deployment of
wireless
technologies to serve isolated communities providing alternative
services thus
making communications cheaper and more accessible.
The 2010 ISIF Grant Recipients are:
- Bac Ha International University - Vietnam.
Efficient and reliable GPS wireless Ad Hoc sensor networks for marine monitoring, searching, and rescuing applications. - Druknet – Bhutan.
Towards world’s first ready-IPv6 country. - E-Network Research and Development (ENRD) – Nepal.
Empowering mountain communities: Localized support kit and training for community wireless networks. - Garhwal
Community Development and Welfare Society (GCDWS)
– India.
Interactive, structured, multi-modal clinical guidelines to improve quality of care by Rural Healthcare providers. - National Institute of Fisheries and Nautical
Engineering (NIFNE) - Sri Lanka.
Mobile portal for fisheries community services. - Rowetel, Australia/Timor-Leste.
Dili Village Telco. - Servelots Infotech Pvt Ltd - India.
Accessible rich Internet applications and illiteracy. - University of Colombo School of Computing - Sri Lanka.
Virtual IPv6 application test bed.
About 2009 Grantees
Local communi
ties across the Asia Pacific region stand to benefit from
work backed by an important new funding program. After a detailed evaluation process, the Information
Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) has announced the first round of funding results, which will be providing support during 2009 for 11 projects in
eight countries, all awarded grants on a competitive basis, for their innovative approaches to
extending Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure
to meet genuine challenges in the region. The 2009 grantees signed contracts with APNIC (ISIF Secretariat) to implement their projects. The MGC (Memorandum of Grant Conditions) signed by ISIF recipients state the conditions they have to follow to administer the funding received, the licensing scheme to share the results from their project and the terms for reporting about activities being performed and implemented.
The 2009 ISIF Grant Recipients are:
- The Internet Education and Research Laboratory (intERLab), Asian
Institute of Technology, Thailand.
Development of emergency networks training and tools kit - The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the
National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan
Capacity building for female health workers in rural areas through the use of ICT and mobile based tele-healthcare - The University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
A low-cost digital forensic investigation infrastructure for a third world country - The Bac Ha International University, Vietnam
Broadband Internet access for rural areas of Vietnam using WiMAX technology via television broadcasting infrastructure - One Destination Center, Indonesia
VoIP as a model applicable to developing countries - Punjabi University, India
Web-based transliteration and translation system between Urdu and Hindi languages - Nepal Research and Education Network, Nepal
High-speed backbone for Nepal Research and Education Network - The Department of Computer Science & Engineering from the University
of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Localised high-performance e-mail for telecentres and schools - SynapseHealth, The Philippines
Health, emergency and disaster information using mobile and virtual earth technology - Horizon Lanka Foundation, Sri Lanka
Meshing Up Mahavilachchiya - AirJaldi Networks, India
AirJaldi bandwidth maximizer – proving concepts, demonstrating potential and viability
A pool of pictures from the different projects is available at Flickr.