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🇰🇪 From informal settlement to innovation hub:

🌍 With support from the Internet Society Foundation, the Oasis Mathare Community Network is delivering affordable, reliable connectivity that is community-owned and locally managed.
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Do you organize or support Internet governance discussions in your community?
This funding helps turn ideas into action by supporting:
✔️ Events & convenings
✔️ Coordination & logistics
✔️ Outreach for diverse participation

👉 Application open: https://ow.ly/KLIM50Y4mos

🌐 The Internet is strongest when many voices are heard. Our IGF Funding Program supports inclusive, multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance.

👉 Applications open: https://ow.ly/pfAe50Y02ma

🇸🇱 Digital exclusion continues to limit opportunity for rural communities in Sierra Leone, where Internet access remains low, and poverty rates are highest in non-urban areas.

👉 Through the Digitruck Salone Project, we are supporting a powerful, community-led response to this challenge.

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The Internet Society Foundation Opens Funding Applications for IGFs and SIGs | Internet Society Foundation The Internet Society Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of its Internet Governance Forum Events Grant program (IGF) for recognized National and Regional Initiatives (NRIs) and Schools on Internet Governance (SIGs). This effort is designed to financially support the organizing of these forums, whose central purpose is to foster inclusive, multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet…

🌐 The Internet Society Foundation is supporting initiatives that amplify local, national, and regional voices on Internet Governance (NRIs and SIGs).

👉 Apply now:
https://www.isocfoundation.org/2026/01/the-internet-society-foundation-opens-funding-applications-for-igfs-and-sigs/

🌍 Applications Are Open!

The Internet Society Foundation is excited to open applications for our Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Funding Program!

🔗 For more information: www.isocfoundation.org/2026/01/the-...

🌐 Our new brief, based on data from 52 sponsorship applications, shows how National and Regional IGF Initiatives (NRIs) use collaborative, multi-stakeholder approaches to influence policy and amplify diverse voices: https://ow.ly/VuPk50XRTFX

🌐 At the Internet Society Foundation, we believe that the Internet is for everyone.

That’s why we support initiatives that expand access, enhance digital skills, and empower communities to shape their online futures.

👉 Learn more about our work: https://www.isocfoundation.org/

🇰🇪 With support from the Mawingu Foundation and funding from the Internet Society Foundation through the BOLT grant, this remote pastoral community in Isiolo County, in Kenya, has established a Community Resource Centre that brings Internet.

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Digital Inclusion for Youth with Hearing and Speech Disabilities | Internet Society Foundation In Bangladesh, young persons with disabilities particularly those with severe physical, visual, intellectual, hearing, and speech disabilities continue to face persistent exclusion from education, ski...

🧑‍💻 Their confidence is growing. Their creativity is emerging. And many are already taking on freelance design work.

🔗 When accessibility is prioritized, everyone can thrive in the digital world: www.isocfoundation.org/2025/12/digi...

🌐 Now 15 young learners from across the country are gaining industry-ready digital design skills supported by real-time sign language interpretation, accessible learning materials, and inclusive teaching methods.

🇧🇩 With support from the Internet Society Foundation’s SCILLS Program, the Access Bangladesh Foundation launched Bangladesh’s first fully accessible online Graphic Design course for youth with hearing and speech disabilities.

👉 Today, as we observe the International Day of Persons with Disabilities under the theme “Fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress,” we celebrate a powerful milestone in inclusive digital learning.

🌍 Together, this partnership is proving what’s possible when innovation meets community-driven impact: a scalable, self-sustaining model for true digital inclusion in last-mile communities.

#InternetForEveryone #DigitalInclusion #CommunityNetworks

👉 Media Matters for Women anchors the community side—leading outreach, delivering training, ensuring safeguarding, and providing ongoing mentorship so that the Digitruck reaches the most marginalized.

👉 Close the Gap Kenya provides the technical backbone—refurbishing the container, installing laptops and solar systems, and ensuring the Digitruck meets international standards.

The Digitruck Salone Project, implemented by Media Matters for Women (MMW) in partnership with Close the Gap Kenya and funded by the Internet Society Foundation’s BOLT Grant Program, is bringing digital skills directly to girls and women in the most remote, high-poverty villages.

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🇸🇱 For many people in rural Sierra Leone, life is shaped by digital exclusion.

🤔 Can you imagine 86,000 Taylor Swift concerts happening at the same time, but none of the people have Internet access? That's the scale of the 2.6 billion people who are unconnected worldwide.

🌐 The Internet Society Foundation is committed to global connectivity. Know more at: isocfoundation.org

🌐 The Internet Society Foundation 2026 Action Plan is a strategic roadmap for expanding our initiatives and strengthening our commitment to providing meaningful access to an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet for everyone.

2026 Action Plan:
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🌍 Empowering SMEs in the Digital Age

🌐 Internet Society - Zimbabwe Chapter has a strong focus on safe Internet use, cybersecurity, and data protection, empowering SMEs to safeguard their information while fostering trust in the digital economy.

👉 KENET’s work isn’t just about connection, it’s about lasting impact through capacity building, local partnerships, and innovative, low-cost technology solutions.

KENET’s journey is redefining what’s possible when innovation meets community-driven change — ensuring that no learner is left offline.

🇰🇪 Through the Internet Society Foundation’s BOLT program, KENET is bridging the digital divide by connecting schools, hospitals, libraries, and training institutes in rural counties in Kenya.

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🌍 Transforming Connectivity in Rural Kenya: KENET’s Digital Revolution

Access to the Internet can change everything from how students learn to how communities thrive. The KENYA EDUCATION NETWORK (KENET) is making that change happen.

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🔗 With better connectivity, people in disaster-prone regions can act quickly, safeguard lives, and rebuild stronger: www.isocfoundation.org/story/from-r...

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🌐 Implemented by the grantee partner Digital Empowerment Foundation, with the support of the Internet Society Foundation Resiliency grant program, this network not only helps increase response time but also ensures that information can be shared among communities, local authorities, and turists.

🛜 To strengthen disaster preparedness, the Uttarakhand Wireless Aid Community Network project is setting up advanced Internet infrastructure in 10 villages.