Given that we clearly tick the box for Participatory Digital Mapping, and have a lot to say about community engagement too, I'd say it would make sense for HOT to be submitting a grant application to USIP. There's a little more information about the mapping side of things within a PDF linked at the bottom of that site. http://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships/priority-grant-competition
"The focus of this year’s Communication for Peacebuilding solicitation is to support projects that strengthen the impact of participatory digital mapping initiatives by using local media and community organizations to increase information input from affected populations and information use by relevant peacebuilding actors. " A hard sell might be to explain what maps can offer for "peace building", but this seems to be accepted as a premise of the grant funding. I think the main challenge then is to devise a plan involving "using local media and community organisations". Harry ________________________________ From: Kate Chapman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 23:59 Subject: [HOT] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] USIP Call for Proposals: "Participatory Digital Mapping, Local Media, and Community Engagement" Hi All, I think we should use this as an opportunity to brain storm opportunities to work in places we've responded remotely in the past. Or other ideas as well. Best, -Kate ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anand Varghese <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:05 AM Subject: [CrisisMappers] USIP Call for Proposals: "Participatory Digital Mapping, Local Media, and Community Engagement" To: [email protected] Hello All The U.S. Institute of Peace’s Communication for Peacebuilding Priority Grant Competition seeks to support innovative practice and research designed to increase our understanding of how communication flows and technology can best be leveraged to improve the practice of peacebuilding. The theme of the 2012 competition is “Participatory Digital Mapping, Local Media, and Community Engagement,” and the entire call for proposals is available at http://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships/priority-grant-competition#CFP. Please note that concept notes are due to USIP by April 6, 2012. Projects are being funded in the range of $40,000 -- $60,000. USIP Staff Contact: Elizabeth Murray, [email protected]. Cheers, Anand Varghese USIP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CrisisMappers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en. _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
