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12 Innovative Projects Selected for Beyond the Net Funding

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Beyond the Net Funding Programme is pleased to announce the results of our June 2017 grant application cycle. A total of 102 applications were received and, after a thorough review process, 12 projects were selected. The new grantees are a group of talented, diverse, and devoted people committed to work on critical issues in their home region using the Internet to bring innovation and empower their communities all across the globe. The range of issues and approaches these new cycle’s projects cover are extraordinary, such as providing telemedicine solutions in remote districts of Nepal,...

22 June 2017

Ilda Simao

Community Grants Community Projects

Access, Beyond the Net Funding Programme, BNet Journal, BNet News, Children and the Internet, Community Grants, Connectivity, Disability Inclusion, Education, Global, Human Rights, Innovation, Internet Access, Internet Development, Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), Internet funding, Internet grants, Internet Infrastructure, Internet Society, Internet Society Grants, Open Internet, Privacy, SDG, Security, Supporting Women, sustainable development
How the Internet changed the Nyirarukobwa Primary School

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Sarah is 11 years old and goes to school in the Nyirarukobwa Primary School, together with about 1400 other kids. She tells me that she joined this school this year because it has a very high success rate for the National Exam. Sarah said to me: 'I want to go to boarding School', which is what will happen when she passes the exam and go to Secondary school. She is one of the 700 plus children who joined the Nyirarukobwa School over the last 3 years (yes the number of kids just doubled!!) because of its high exam success rate. You wonder why? Apart from a very...

19 May 2017

Ms. Joyce Dogniez

Community Grants Community Projects

Access, Africa, Beyond the Net Funding Programme, BNet Journal, BNet News, Children and the Internet, Community Grants, Connectivity, Education, Innovation, Internet Access, Internet Development, Internet funding, Internet grants, Internet Society, Internet Society Grants, Nyirarukobwa Primary Shool, Open Internet, SDG, sustainable development
Internet@MySchool - a pilot project connecting Yemeni schools in Sanaa and Aden

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As a country, Yemen is among the least with Internet connectivity in the Middle East. This is particularly troubling given the rise of Internet access across the globe. Furthermore, the youth in Yemen constitute the majority of the population yet are being left behind because of the lack of Internet access in schools due to poor economic conditions coupled with other priorities that supersede Internet access. And due to the continuation of conflicts, the educational process in Yemen facing many challenges: shortages in the financial resources, the rehabilitation of partially damaged schools,...

04 April 2017

Fahmi Albaheth

Community Projects

Access, Beyond the Net Funding Programme, BNet Journal, BNet News, Children and the Internet, Community Grants, Connectivity, Education, Fahmi Albaheth, Internet Access, Internet Development, Internet funding, Internet grants, Internet Society, Internet Society Grants, Internet@MySchool, ISOC Yemen Chapter, Middle East, Open Internet, SDG, Sustainable Development Goals
e-Daara de Thieyetou - Internet au cœur du village

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Beyond the Net Journal: Sénégal Chapter #1 Episode Thieyetou est un village du nord-ouest du Sénégal situé à 27km de la ville la plus proche et difficilement accessible. Sa population rencontre également des difficultés d'accès à l'information et à l'éducation. De même, sa distance de la ville rend l'entretien du matériel informatique presque impossible, les techniciens doivent venir de la ville. Actuellement, plus de deux cents trente élèves fréquentent l’école primaire qui accueille aussi les étudiants d'autres localités autour (Garame, Ndari, Koure, Ndialigue), la plupart n’ayant jamais...

03 February 2017

Ilda Simao

Community Grants Community Projects

Accès à Internet pour l'Ecole Elémentaire de Thiayetou, Access, Africa, Beyond the Net, Beyond the Net Funding Programme, Beyond The Net News, Children and the Internet, E-Daara de Thiayetou, Internet Access, Open Internet, Région de Diourbel, Senegal, Thieytou Primary School, www.esp.sn, Chapter
Experiencing the Internet’s Role in Community Empowerment

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Taking advantage of the fact that Internet Society’s CEO, Kathy Brown, and I were both in India last month, we visited one of our Wireless for Communities (W4C) sites in Tilonia, located in Rajasthan state. Located some 380km from Delhi in a rural location, the W4C Tilonia site is based at the Barefoot College campus, and is a self-reliant model village – from generating their own solar electricity to sustainable water harvesting. They also run a community education programme teaching people from around the world skills to help them empower their local communities. The W4C programme has been...

14 December 2016

Rajnesh Singh

Asia-Pacific Bureau

Access, Asia-Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Barefoot College, Children and the Internet, Education, India, Supporting Women, Tilonia, Wireless for Communities (W4C)
A safe Internet for Aragonese kids under 12

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Beyond the Net Journal: Spain Aragon Chapter #1 Episode In a society where Internet in schools is become more and more common, knowing how to face the learning process in kids under 12, became an essential building block. Parents and teachers need to recognize that on the Internet kids aren't just watching, they are interacting with other people. With this in mind, the Aragon Spain Chapter applied to Beyond the Net Funding Programme with the aim of educating Aragonese parents and kids with skills and tools for a safer use of online resources. I asked few questions to Andres Gomez to get a...

10 August 2016

Nicoletta Metri

Community Projects

Beyond the Net Funding Programme, Beyond The Net News, BNet Journal, BNet News, Children and the Internet, Children safety, Europe, Internet and Children, Internet Society, Spain Aragon Chapter
Shaping the future of children in rural Guatemala

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Beyond the Net Journal: Guatemala Chapter #1 Episode The funding from “Beyond the Net” provides free Internet and computing services to Mayan students who would otherwise have to pay to complete their homework. San Marcos la Laguna, on the western shore of Lago Atitlán in the Sololá Department of Guatemala, is a rural village of approximately 3.500 indigenous Mayans, most subsisting on agriculture and tourism. There are too few textbooks in elementary and secondary schools for students. Teachers subsidize classroom resources by assigning homework to students requiring internet...

20 June 2016

Andrew Ettinger

Community Projects

Beyond the Net Funding Programme, Children and the Internet, Guatemala, Helder Chiyal Mejia, Konojel project, Latin America & Caribbean, Mayans, poverty in rural Guatemala, San Marcos La Laguna
8 new projects under Internet Society's Beyond the Net program

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We’re excited to announce 8 new projects under Internet Society’s Beyond the Net program – a program designed to help your big idea to change lives using the net become a reality. Projects are usually developed and run by our Chapters or Interest Groups – a group of volunteers on the ground who are united by location or interest. Here’s the latest round of inspiring projects: seDaara of ThieyetouSenegal Chapter The Internet is hard to come by in Thieyetou. The Senegalese village is about 30 kilometers from the nearest city and surrounded by desert. This means it’s both hard...

31 May 2016

Ilda Simao

Community Projects

Beyond the Net, Chapters, Children and the Internet, Education, Global, Internet Infrastructure
Securing the Internet for children in Asia-Pacific

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At a recent UNICEF event, the role of the ICT industry in East Asia and the Pacific was examined in respect to promoting children’s rights and UNICEF’s “Guidelines for Industry on Child Online Protection”. In the course of the day the discussion turned to childrens’ self-esteem, and need for love and sense of belonging that may result in risky or inappropriate online behaviour. Just as importantly, it was pointed out that children may be unaware of the negative repercussions of their behavior to themselves and others, one of which is the loss of privacy through data collection by service and...

15 May 2016

Amelia Yeo

Asia-Pacific Bureau

Asia-Pacific, Children and the Internet, online child protection, Online Privacy, online safety, Privacy, Security, UNICEF, Other external events
Youth aren't the future. We’re the present.

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It’s weird when you think about it. More than any other demographic, people under the age of 25 spend all our time online. We’re the first generation to grow up with the Internet, and we use it for everything; communication, recreation, work, art. And yet, when it comes to Internet governance, we’re almost entirely absent from the conversation. That’s why myself and a few like-minded folks from across Latin America started the Youth Observatory. The Youth Observatory is a special interest group within ISOC meant to both make sure youth voices are heard in governance discussions and...

24 March 2016

Adela Goberna

Chapters & Members

Access, Children and the Internet, Community Building, Internet Governance, Latin America & Caribbean, Privacy, Supporting Women, Women, youth, Youth SIG