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International
Donor Organizations and Foundations dedicated to Science and Technology
Development
The Global Fund for Women
is committed to giving flexible, timely support to women's groups
working on emerging, controversial or difficult issues.
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org
The Africa Enterprise
Fund (AEF) has provided a total of $206 million for 309 projects
in 30 African countries. In line with the Corporation's goal
of promoting indigenous enterprises, most of these projects are owned
by African shareholders.
http://www.ifc.org/abn/aef/aef.htm
| International
Development Exchange |
International Development Exchange (IDEX) is a social change organization
challenging social and economic forces that marginalize people worldwide.
We build mutually empowering alliances with partner organizations
that share a common vision to confront global systems of inequality
through channeling funds, mutual learning, networking, capacity building,
and outreach.
http://www.idex.org
The Netaid Foundation provides catalytic grants to partner organizations
working to break the cycle of extreme poverty.
http://www.netaid.org
| Network
Startup Resource Center |
The Network Startup Resource Center
provides pro bono technical and engineering assistance to international
networking initiatives providing access to the public Internet, especially
to academic/research organizations and non-governmental organizations.
http://www.nsrc.org
The Global Technology Corps
(GTC) is a U.S. State Department-sponsored public-private partnership
that works with companies, individuals, and organizations who are
willing to volunteer their time, expertise and resources to help spread
the social and economic benefits of access to information technology.
http://www.globaltechcorps.org
| Share
the Technology's Computer Recycling Project |
Share the Technology's Computer Recycling Project salvages used
computers and repairs, upgrades and donates them to nonprofit organizations,
schools and people with disabilities.
http://sharetechnology.org
| Project
for Information Access and Connectivity |
The Project for Information Access
and Connectivity (PIAC), which is sponsored by the Ford
Foundation and the Rockefeller
Foundation, works with African grantees and program officers of
both foundations on issues of using technology.
http://www.piac.org
| Global
Technology Foundation |
The Global
Technology Foundation recycles unwanted computers and telecommunications
equipment to African users.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Org_Institutes/Global_
Technology_16662.html
| Soros Foundations
Network |
The Soros Foundations Network
links numerous nonprofit foundations together in an informal network.
http://www.soros.org
| African
Development Foundation |
The African Development Foundation
(ADF) is the principal agency of the U. S. Government that supports
community-based, self-help initiatives alleviating poverty and promoting
sustainable development in Africa.
http://www.adf.gov
| Swedish
Support to International Training Programme |
The Swedish Support to International
Training Programme aims to promote human resource development
in low and middle income countries by providing know-how in areas
which are of strategic importance for the development of partner countries.
http://www.sida.se
| International
Foundation for Science |
The International Foundation for Science
contributes to the strengthening of capacity in developing countries
to conduct relevant and high quality research on the management, use,
and conservation of biological resources and their environment. To
further this goal, IFS supports young developing country scientists
who have the potential for becoming the future research leaders and
lead scientists in their nations.
http://www.ifs.se
| Third World
Academy of Sciences |
The Third World Academy
of Sciences (TWAS) is an autonomous international organization
that supports research work of scientific merit in 100 countries in
the South through a variety of programmes.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/TWAS
- The Third
World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) awards five prizes of
US$10,000 to individual scientists from developing countries who
have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of Basic
Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Basic Medical
Sciences).
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/Awards_Info.html
- The Third
World Academy of Sciences Prizes for Young Scientists helps
in developing high-level scientific human resources in developing
countries by identifying young talented scientists through a recognition
of their merit and by promoting the growth of their creativity.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/YS.html
- The Third
World Academy of Sciences Research Grants Programme offers
up to US$10,000 to scientists from developing countries of proven
ability for research projects in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics
and Physics. The grants are intended to cover the costs of specialized
equipment, essential consumable material, and scientific literature.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/RG_Form.html
- Spare
Parts for Scientific Equipment provides funds for covering
the cost of small items of spare parts for scientific equipment
in Third World institutions, up to a maximum of US$1,000 each.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/SP_Form.html
- Provision
of Books and Journals provides scientific publications donated
by institutions or individuals in the industrialized countries
to a number of libraries in developing countries.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~iqbal
- Fellowships
and Associateships: South-South Fellowships supports travel
for visits to scientific institutions within the South for a minimum
period of one month. Living expenses are borne by local sources.
Governments and scientific organizations in 20 developing countries
have agreed to provide local hospitality for over 300 annual visits
under this programme.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/SS-Fellowships_Form.html
- The Third
World Academy of Sciences Fellowships / Academy
and the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)
of India have instituted two types of fellowships for scientists
of proven ability from developing countries (other than India)
to work in the laboratories of the CSIR in India: Fellowships
for Postdoctoral Research (for 3-12 months), and Fellowships for
Postgraduate Studies for PhD (for 2-3 years).
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/CSIR_Postgrad_Form.html
- The Third
World Academy of Sciences in cooperation with UNESCO instituted
a joint Associateship Scheme in 1994 in collaboration with several
Centres of Excellence in the South to enable active researchers
from the South to visit these centres regularly. Currently over
eighty Centres are participating in this scheme. The aim of the
scheme is to counteract the brain drain by alleviating the problem
of isolation of talented scientists in developing countries, and
strengthen the research programmes of Centres of Excellence in
the South.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/AssocRules.html
- UNESCO/ICSU/TWAS
Short-Term Fellowships in Basic Sciences fellowships
are designed to enable the holder to spend from one to three months
in a competent scientific laboratory abroad.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/ST_Fellowship.html
- Third
World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) encourages the organization
of international scientific meetings in Third World countries
by providing financial support in the form of travel grants for
principal speakers from abroad and/or participants from the region.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/SM_Form.html
- The Third
World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO) awards grants
to joint research projects with well-defined objectives to be
undertaken jointly by two to three research institutions from
developing countries.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/TWNSO_RG.html
- The Third
World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO) every other
year awards two prizes of US$10,000 to honor individuals or institutions
whose scientific innovations in the fields of Agriculture and
Technology have provided solutions to economic and social problems
in the South.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/TWNSO_prizes.html
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