Project Summary Rural residents are often devoid of Internet connectivity due to lack of infrastructure and the high installation costs of a terrestrial network. Currently, the Chini Lake shores house around 500 indigenous people distributed across six villages with no access to cellular tower communication coverage. This is mainly due to the challenging terrain profile … Read more
Project Summary This project was part of the School of Community Network program (SCN) initiated by Common Room in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communication (APC) in early 2021. Subsequently, the initiative became integrated into the Digital Access Programme (DAP), led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in the same year. Later … Read more
Frequent visitors to the isif.asia website may have noticed in recent days that the domain now redirects to the apnic.foundation website. The ISIF Asia website predates the establishment of the Foundation, and as part of the Foundation corporate communications, it was decided in 2022 to move isif.asia as a section on the new Foundation website … Read more
Project Summary Bluewave deployed satellite infrastructure to 51 district sites in Samoa, that had little to no reliable connectivity and/ or redundancy for disaster preparedness. Priority was given to unserved or underserved village communities within each district. See more information under “Project Implementation Narrative” on how we assessed which locations were prioritized. These district sites provided reliable … Read more
Table of Contents Background and Justification Since the global network continues to grow at a fast pace, the concept of “networks on demand” is getting more and more popular in network management and operation. Meanwhile, due to IPv4 address exhaustion, many network applications and services are starting to enable dual stack support. This not only … Read more
Table of Contents Background and Justification Score Lab is a well-known and award-winning research group in Sri Lanka. We have active research collaborations between the International Cybersecurity Institute (ICSI), a UC Berkeley Research Institute, and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). We mainly focus on conducting computer security research. Currently, we are conducting education programs … Read more
Table of Contents Background and Justification Honeypots are a decoy system designed to lure attackers so they engage in malicious activity that can be studied. They have been used by many security researchers to study attacker activities and behaviors. It is critical to be able to track and map attack patterns so that we can … Read more
By Sylvia Cadena On International Women’s Day IWD 2024, the Foundation is shining a light on the many ways in which women are central to our work. Writing this was an opportunity to reflect on how I have worked to structure our programming and processes and how although it has maintained its focus, it has … Read more
Table of contents Background and Justification Digitalization is relatively new and quickly accelerating in Cambodia. In recent years, the Cambodian government has placed a high priority on the development of the digital economy, notably with its Strategy for Growth, Employment, Equity and Efficiency which capitalizes on the digitalization of the Cambodian economy and seizing opportunities arising … Read more
This project is based on research that came out of Prof. Muriel Médard’s group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which the team at Auckland University built upon with the help of Steinwurf ApS, a startup company Prof. Médard co-founded in Denmark with a German colleague, Frank Fitzek. In previous ISIF-funded projects, the University of Auckland … Read more
