ISIF Asia grant recipients for 2014 announced today

BANGALORE, INDIA: ISIF Asia, the Information Society Innovation Fund, has announced the selection of 11 projects, including 3 from the Pacific

Islands, to be implemented in 2014.

During the 2013 call for applications, ISIF Asia received a total of 139

submissions from applicants in 24 different economies across the Asia

Pacific Region. The submissions were received from Afghanistan,

Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Federated States of

Micronesia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Malaysia, Nepal, New

Zealand, Niue, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa,

Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.

2014 grant recipients

(1) Improving Internet Connectivity in Pacific Island countries with

network coded TCP. Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society

(PICISOC), Cook Islands, Kiribati, New Zealand & Tuvalu,

(2) Enhancing Communication and Co-operation across South Asia: An

ICT Solution to Script Barriers. Punjabi University, Patiala, India.

(3) Cook Islands Maori Database. Cook Islands Internet Action Group.

Cook Islands.

(4) Using technology to improve citizen science monitoring of coral

reefs in Indonesia. CoralWatch, The University of Queensland,

Australia/Indonesia.

(5) "Chiang-Rai MeshTV": An Educational Video-on-Demand (E-VoD)

System for a Rural Hill-Tribe Village via a Community Wireless Mesh

Network (CWMN). Internet Education and Research Laboratory, Asian

Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the Mirror

Foundation and the THNIC Foundation, Thailand.

(6) Digitalising and preserving Oro, a secret signage language of the

nomadic Penans in the rainforest. Institute of Social Informatics

and Technological Innovations (ISITI-CoERI), Malaysia.

(7) Chuuk State Solar Server Education Hub, Federated States of

Micronesia. iSolutions, Micronesia.

(8) Using Mobile Application and Mapping Platform to Increase

Accountability in Delivery of Maternal Health Services for Tea

Garden Workers in Assam. Nazdeek, India

(9) Extending ECHO to Homenet Indonesia. eHomemakers, Malaysia/

Indonesia.

(10) Monitoring and early warning of landslides in Vietnam.

University of Engineering and Technology and Vietnam National

University - Hanoi, Vietnam.

(11) Link TB with Technology (LTT). Operation ASHA, Cambodia.

The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia) is a joint

initiative between the Canadian International Development Research

Centre (IDRC), the Swedish government through the Swedish International

Development Agency (Sida) and the Asia Pacific Network Information

Centre (APNIC) that is aimed at stimulating creative solutions to ICT

development needs in the Asia Pacific region. The grants for 2014 have

also been sponsored by the Dot Asia Organization.