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Project Isizwe's Mexican Adventure
Content Manager at Project Isizwe - Zulu for 'tribe' or 'nation' -, travelled to Mexico to attend the IGF16 as part of the FIRE Africa Award his orgnanisation won in 2016. He tells us about his trip below.
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So far, so great, as an AFRINIC 2016 Fire Africa Grantee!
CEO of Mucho Mangoes , an organization that empowers rural smallholder farmers in Kenya. In December 2016, as part of his FIRE Award , he travelled to Mauritius to attend the AFRINIC-25 Meeting and then onto Guadalajara, Mexico, to attend the Internet...
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Call for Applications for the 2019 FIRE Africa ICT for Development Award is now Open
AFRINIC has announced the opening of its 2019 FIRE Award in the ICT for Development category. You are invited to submit your project proposal at https://fireafrica.org/awards . One winner will be selected through this 2019 call for projects. The FIRE...
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FIRE Awards Winner 2018 Announced
The FIRE Awards Winner 2018 has been announced. The project C.L.E (Cours en Ligne à l'Ecole) from Senegal has been awarded the prize in the category ‘’Internet for Social Inclusion and democratization of access and the use of ICT.’’ The project focuses...
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Over 100 applicants bid for FIRE Africa Grants
A total of 106 applicants from 18 different countries in Africa have applied for the 2018 FIRE Africa Grants Program. The applicants are all eying the five available slots that will see them get between $10,000 and $15,000 funding available for...
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2016 - A Year in Review
over 2,740 more than at the start of 2016. 5,448 Twitter Followers, over 1,400 more than at the start of 2016. Outreach FIRE Africa Fellowship 31 events attended by staff to represent the interests of the AFRINIC membership. 5 Member outreach meetings...
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AFCHIX - Boosting the Pipeline Of Women In Technology
In 2016, AFCHIX won the FIRE Africa Community Development Grant . In this blog post AFCHIX Programs Coordinator Lillian Achom talks about finding out that her organisation had been successful and the impact the US$25,000 grant has already had on its...
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Our Dream Turns Into Reality: Library For the Blind
Bibliotheque Le Pavillion Blanc - Library for the Blind - in Cameroon won the US$ 25,000 FIRE Africa Grant in 2016 in the Education category to further boost its work with the visually impaired throughout Cameroon. In this blogpost, Communications...
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Making Connections: All Girls Tech Camps in The Gambia
Alieu Sowe, from the Give1Project Gambia , talks about his project, All Girls Tech Camp , which received the FIRE Africa Google Award in 2016, and his recent trip to the Internet Governance Forum ( IGF16 ). As part of the Award, winners receive a...
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FIRE Africa: The Issue of Awareness
In 2013, the Shona E-Reader project , now known as MyNatiV , received a FIRE Africa Grant for its innovative text-to-Speech (TTS) E-learning application implemented on a low cost Android tablet to enable children in rural Zimbabwe to learn to read...
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MEWC - Mid-Term Review of the African Women's Decade 2010-2020
2013 FIRE Africa Award Winner Make Every Woman Count (MEWC) is a virtual information hub that promotes African women’s participation in all aspects of development discourse. It’s an African woman-led organisation that serves as a mobilising,...
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Developing solutions to Education in Cameroon
EduAir has secured a US$ 3,000 FIRE Africa Award in 2017 in support of this project. Less than a quarter of the population in Cameroon has access to Internet. EduAir (formerly kwiizi) is developing a solution to distribute digital content for...
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January 2017 News Roundup
Here's a quick overview of our activities and news in January 2017 Monthly Statistics New members in January: 10 Total members at year end 2016: 169 Total members to date: 1477 IPv4 address space allocated in January: 567,512 /32s Total IPv4 allocated...
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August 2016 News Round Up
While most people have been enjoying a summer break, it's been a busy month for us. Here’s an overview of AFRINIC’s news and activities throughout August.
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AIS'16 Meeting Report
The Africa Internet Summit 2016 (AIS'16) took place in Gaborone, Botswana, from 29 May - 10 June 2016. Over 365 people took part in training sessions, workshops, tutorials, parallel meetings, policy development discussions, plenary sessions, elections...
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Event Wrap: OSIANE 2017
In April, AFRINIC partnered with the International Exhibition on Information Technology and Innovation (OSIANE 2017) in Brazzaville, Congo. AFRINIC staff attended the event as part of its outreach and knowledge-share activities. Radha Ramphul,...
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Seed Alliance Nominated for WSIS Prizes 2017: Vote Now!
The Seed Alliance has been nominated for the WSIS Prize 2017 competition. Public voting is now open and we need your vote to help us win! Find more more about how - and why - you should vote in this important competition.
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Countdown to AFRINIC-23: What to Expect
AFRINIC staff have already arrived in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, and are busy setting up the AFRINIC-23 meeting network, double-checking logistics and putting the finishing touches to the meeting venue alongside our host, ARPCE . I'm looking...
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A New Frontier for the Global South
Mwendwa Kivuva, AFRINIC's Project Manager highlights AFRINIC's FIRE Programme. The Fund for Internet Research and Education — FIRE — is an initiative of AFRINIC that gives Grants and Awards to outstanding projects that use the Internet to provide...
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News Round-Up October 2015
Internet related topics in Africa and beyond... 7 October 2015 - AFRINIC called on the community to vote for its favourite FIRE Award nomination The Fund for Internet Research and Education (FIRE) aims to encourage ICT development innovations that...
https://www.afrinic.net/blog/25-news-round-up-october-2015
