Similarly I just stumbled across the "UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education" which might also be of interest to some people/projects here: http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/icts-in-education-prize-call-for-nominations-6/
Cheers, Christoph On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Manusheel Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI. Might be useful. > > --- > > The Motorola Mobility Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Motorola > Mobility, is accepting applications for the 2012 Empowerment Grants, a > funding program designed to help United States-based nonprofit > organizations develop mobile applications and use mobile technology that > will help transform and benefit the communities they serve. The program > addresses four areas of focus — education, health and wellness, community, > and arts and culture. > Successful applications must demonstrate the ways that digital, mobile, > and social technology can be used to further a nonprofit organization’s > mission. Examples include producing a crowd-sourcing site for community > resource mapping, creating a digital storytelling application that captures > oral histories of a community, developing a resource for social media use > to further engage volunteers, and using new ideas of “gamefication in > education” to engage students. > > The total amount of funding for the Empowerment Grants program is > $500,000; the program will fund approximately twenty grants. The average > grant size is $25,000. > > After March 1, organizations can visit > www.cybergrants.com/motorolamobility/empowermentgrants > to apply. > Visit the Motorola Mobility Foundation Web site for complete program > information and application procedures: > http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/society/emp > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: [email protected]
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