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
Foundation staff, grantees, project participants and awardees were very active at APRICOT 2024 / APNIC 57.
Handicap International – Humanity & Inclusion sought to improve the Internet experience for people with disabilities in Bangladesh – and it was important that people with disabilities were involved in every step of the project planning and implementation. Below, you can see the proposal video submitted a few years ago by Vashkar Bhattacharjee who worked with the HI Bangladesh team. That project is now … Read more
Table of contents Background and Justification Broadband networks have been widely deployed around the world, and optical technology is the main stream to provide data connections, mainly due to the large bandwidth and low loss advantages of optical fibres. Compared with the core network, the access network is more challenging due to the large number … Read more
Table of contents Background and Justification This project aims to increase the adoption and usability of the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP). RDAP protocol is the replacement of WHOIS. It is used to retrieve registration data using Internet resources such as domain names, IP addresses, and autonomous system numbers (ASN). RDAP standardized data access and … Read more
Table of contents Background and Justification Shilpa Sayura and partners Computer Society of Sri Lanka and ISOC Sri Lanka engaged in digital development and innovation, believe increasing women in technology sector as essential to fulfill the needs of digital development. Although 41.2% females represent computer science students in universities, less than 8% women enter advanced … Read more
Table of contents Background and justification When the project started, most telecommunications networks in the Pacific interconnected in Asia, Australia, or the United States. This had a profound impact on both the cost and the performance of regional traffic. It discouraged regional interactions, and in particular erected barriers to research and education. Many stakeholders in the … Read more
Impact stories from the Foundation’s gender diversity work in South East Asia will be shared at the Foundation session at APRICOT 2024 / APNIC 57. The six national coordinators of the Switch! project have been working closely with the 174 women and gender diverse people participating in the project, and witnessed their stories firsthand. They … Read more
