Funding Friday...
Tech for Good - Issue 99
Happy Friday!
I hope your week has gone well! This week I have five new funding opportunities for your #techforgood work in South East Asia. At Glean this week we’ve been focusing on delivering a payment system for one of our APAC clients and it has reminded me of how critical payment systems/methods for the un-banked or last-mile users are. I’m curious if anyone in this network is working on helping solve this problem? If you are, please let me know, I’d love to feature your work with a longer write up!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Jesse
What’s funding this week…
2022 ISIF Asia Grants now open for applications
ISIF Asia empowers organizations across the Asia Pacific region to research, design, and implement Internet-based solutions to solve Internet development challenges that support community development and growth. Since 2008, ISIF Asia has supported 99 grants and 29 awards, allocating over USD 5.4 million to 128 innovative initiatives across 27 economies.
Applications are open to public and private sector organizations, academia, non-profits, and social enterprise organizations.
There are three thematic areas.
Inclusion: Initiatives that help ensure everyone has meaningful access to the Internet, online applications and services
Infrastructure: Initiatives to increase Internet speed, reduce maintenance and operational costs, and improve reliability and/or security
Knowledge: Initiatives that develop technical capacity and/or research around Internet network operations for technical and non-technical audiences
Accelerator for Ventures Serving Displaced People
Refugee owned, refugee-led, or refugee-supporting social enterprises can help to unlock the potential of forcibly displaced communities with business models that promote self-reliance: the social and economic ability of forcibly-displaced people and their host communities to meet their essential needs without external aid. To assist social entrepreneurs who work in or seek to expand into this space, this accelerator will equip leaders with the moral leadership lessons, business skills, and learnings from our portfolio companies to confidently scale their enterprises and build scalable, inclusive, and sustainable solutions.
Impact Partners PitchFest Series 2022
We are kickstarting this year’s Impact Partners PitchFest Series 2022 with the APAC region and then moving on to the Americas and EMEA in the upcoming months. It is a virtual, global initiative to find, support, and accelerate capital raising efforts for exceptional impact enterprises that are driving UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We are here to connect and link the world’s most promising impact enterprises—like yours—with IIX’s global network of committed investors, supporting partners, and investment experts.
Impact Partners PitchFest Series will give visibility to exceptional enterprises focusing on one or all of these three aspects of economic growth with a gender lens. If you have a world-changing solution, we have the impact investing network and curated connections you need to get visibility in the impact investment community globally.
Apply Now: £500,000 for Infectious Disease Open Source Data Models
The Digital Technology Development Awards from the Wellcome Trust will support software developers to develop digital tools that will improve climate-sensitive infectious disease data modeling. Welcome Trust wants open-source digital technology that will increase the impact of CSID research. Wellcome Trust will invest £500,000 for research expenses, including salaries, that combines infectious diseases data with climate data, such as data quality, spatial and temporal scales, and lack of representatio
Equator Prize 2022
The Equator Prize, organized by the Equator Initiative within the United Nations Development Programme, is awarded biennially to recognize outstanding community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. As sustainable community initiatives take root throughout the tropics, they are laying the foundation for a global movement of local successes that are collectively making a contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As local and indigenous groups across the tropics demonstrate and exemplify sustainable development, the Equator Prize shines a spotlight on their efforts by celebrating them on an international stage.