Dear Matogoro, I personally have submitted applications for Fire Awards and never have the projects I have submitted got any grant. Sometimes I query the selection whereby they do not even give feedback on what went wrong or why you did not get the grant. I advise that don't lean only on Fire awards or grants but try some other methods of lobbying funding to support your project or even if possible consider fundraising. I wish the process was transparent on applications recieved and criteria used in selection of grantees and also for those that did not get the grant, feedback is given. Otherwise, i resorted to alternative means of raising funds.
Daniel ᐧ On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 19:32, Matogoro Jabera <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Recently, AfrINIC announced for FIRE Awards for the outstanding project. I > tried more than five times to submit my project but was not successful. > > I tried to contact AFRINIC but received the support which did not answered > my question. AFRINIC claimed that the upload link was fine while to my side > did not worked. Finally I gave up and life goes on. > > I think something need to be fixed at AFRINIC. Just sharing out my > frustrations. > > > Regards, > Matogoro > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Olatunde Awobuluyi <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 20 May 2019, 19:09 > Subject: FIRE Africa Awards 2019 > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > > > Dear Jabhera > > Thank you for reaching out to us. > > Please, be aware that there is a difference between FIRE Africa Awards > and FIRE Africa Grants. > > FIRE Awards are awards given to ICT related projects that are already > completed or almost completed. > > FIRE Grants are funds given to ICT related projects that are in their > infancy stage or need financial input to expand the project. > > Unfortunately, there will be no calls for FIRE Africa grant proposals in > 2019. > > However, there is an ongoing call for FIRE Africa Awards in 2019. You can > submit a proposal for a FIRE Africa Award using this link ( > https://fireafrica.org/awards). > > The "*submit your awards nomination*" link will be on the top right pane > of this webpage (Please view the attached image). > > With many thanks, > > The FIRE Africa team > -- > > Olatunde Awobuluyi > Funds for Internet Research and Education (FIRE) Program Manager, AFRINIC Ltd. > t: +230 403 51 00 | f: +230 466 6758 | tt: @afrinic | w: > www.afrinic.netfacebook.com/afrinic | flickr.com/afrinic | > youtube.com/afrinicmedia > > _______________________ > > > > > *Join us for the AFRINIC 30 Meeting in Uganda | 9 - 21 June 2019* > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > -- Nanghaka Daniel K. Executive Director - ILICIT Africa/ Chair - Outreach and Engagement WG (ICANN At-Large)/ former Chair - FOSSFA / Geo4Africa Lead / Organising Team - FOSS4G2018 Mobile +256 772 898298 (Uganda) Skype: daniel.nanghaka ----------------------------------------- *"Working for Africa" * -----------------------------------------
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