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:
<a href="http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/icts-in-education-prize-call-for-nominations-6/">http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/icts-in-education-prize-call-for-nominations-6/</a> <div>
<br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Christoph<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Manusheel Gupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manu@laptop.org">manu@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</span></div>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.</span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:16px"><br>
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.<br>
<br>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.<br> <br>After March 1, organizations can visit <a href="http://www.cybergrants.com/motorolamobility/empowermentgrants" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.cybergrants.com/motorolamobility/empowermentgrants</a> <br>
to apply.<br>Visit the Motorola Mobility Foundation Web site for complete program information and application procedures: <font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/society/emp" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/society/emp</a></font></span><br>
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