Funding Friday...
Tech for Good - Issue 97
Happy Friday!
I hope you week has gone well! This week I am featuring five new funding opportunities for your #techforgood work across South East Asia. I’ve discovered great opportunities for those of you working on NFTs and blockchain technology, edtech, AI, social business, and academic researchers.
Have an amazing weekend!
Jesse
What’s funding this week…
Voice NFT Residency Program
The world of NFTs has seen exponential growth and many changes over the last year. The only thing that hasn’t changed: our mission to empower emerging creators in the NFT space.
This spring, we invite you to join the second season of our virtual NFT Residency.
As a Resident, you will transform a body of work that you’ve wanted to make–or have already made–into an NFT collection. The collections will cover themes that connect our creators to the world’s most pertinent topics. We are here to guide you through the process, all the way from onboarding through building and launching a powerful NFT project.
AI Accountability Fellowships
The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support staff and freelance journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.
MIT Solve Global Challenge: Re-engaging Learners
Technology-enabled innovations for teaching, learning, and assessment can help learners catch up on what they’ve been missing while building on individual strengths and gains. Student and teacher experiences vary widely in this pandemic schooling era, but across all demographics, the psycho-social wellbeing of young people has been severely impacted and educators are overwhelmed and overtaxed. In addition to mental health services, robust social-emotional learning will be key for learner re-engagement and helping students navigate their shifting academic, social, and familial landscapes.
The MIT Solve community is looking for eight technology-enabled solutions that help re-engage and meet the holistic needs of underserved learners between the ages of 5 and 18 so that they may thrive and succeed.
Yunus Centre Social Business Design Competition
The Social Business Design Competition is a global platform looking for youth-driven entrepreneurial solutions to combat some of the most pressing challenges in your community or around the world!
Design your very own social business model for any of the following focus areas: Environment and Climate Change, Micro-credit, Agriculture, Technology & Innovation, Waste, Circular Economy, Tourism, WASH, Employment, Sports, Health & Well-being, and others.
2022 Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis
As a pioneer in automated indexing and retrieval of information since 1955, Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) developed citation databases for science that changed how researchers search and assess the scholarly literature. Now part of Clarivate™, the Web of Science™ indexes the contents and the citation network of the world’s premier scientific and scholarly journals and proceedings and is the direct descendant of the Science Citation Index™, which Garfield introduced in 1964.
As the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™, Dr. Eugene Garfield had many interests related to information science and technology the use of citations (cited references) in information retrieval, research assessment, and the study of the science of science, being key themes of his work. In 2017 Clarivate established an award in his name to honor his legacy by recognizing excellence in the advancement our understanding of research impact and innovation.
Dr. Garfield’s vision of supporting innovation in bibliometrics was unprecedented. He gave special attention to providing support to scientists from around the globe to research and develop new analytical methodologies, indicators, and metrics to advance our understanding of the scientific endeavor.
As a part of our mission to advance diversity, inclusion, and equity, this year we are actively seeking submissions from researchers in emerging nations and specifically from African, Middle Eastern, and Southeast and Western Asian countries.