Project Grant SKZ10018GR0004

This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $987,500.00, was issued by the U.S. Department of State under the Cyberspace and Digital Policy Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.665). The award, with a performance period from August 15, 2024 to September 14, 2026, will provide a platform to enable more efficient cyber capacity building efforts for funders, implementers, and beneficiaries active in the Western Balkans region. The Awardee, Stichting Global Forum On Cyber Expertise, is a foreign...

The Department of State, through its Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665), awarded a $1,165,940 Cooperative Agreement to the Information Technology And Innovation Foundation on September 30, 2024. The award aims to build a cohesive group of leaders working on issues in cyberspace who are committed to the UN-affirmed framework of responsible state behavior. The program supports initiatives that advance an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure internet through technical...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs awarded a $637,499 Cooperative Agreement to Obshtestvennyy Fond Mezhdunarodnaya Obrazovatelnaya Assotsiatsiya Debatov V Tsentralnoy Azii, a non-profit organization based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to implement the Central Asian Go Viral Festival and Network in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. This award, funded through the AEECA/ESF Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.900), aims to improve...

This $1,400,000.00 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of State under the Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CFDA 19.665) federal grant program. The award aims to help educate government officials and emerging leaders worldwide on ICTs and emerging technologies, enabling them to better influence policies and regulations related to the digital economy. The recipient, Carnegie Mellon University, will leverage its expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics,...

This $600,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a first-of-its-kind open-source measurement infrastructure platform. The University of Chicago will design, develop, and deploy this platform to enable new classes of research on digital infrastructure access across U.S. populations. Specifically, the platform aims to facilitate studies on the national digital divide challenge by...

The Department of State Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs awarded $1,681,558 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support American speakers, experts, delegations, collaborators and artists traveling to Montreal, Canada from September 14, 2022 to January 11, 2023. The funding will help strengthen ties between the digital ecosystems of the United States and Canada, and advance thinking on a desirable digital future. Printemps Numerique (doing business as Digital Spring) will...

This Project Grant award of $924,053.50 from the U.S. Department of State's Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665) is designed to enhance the capacities of ESCAP member states to provide robust governance, regulatory, and policy environments related to Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) and other emerging technologies. The award, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will be implemented by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia...

The Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor awarded a $1 million Project Grant to Global Partners Digital LIMITED to counter internet fragmentation and enable an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure internet that promotes and protects human rights in the target country. The award period is from September 30, 2022 to September 30, 2024 under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor federal grant program (CFDA 19.345). This program funds...

The U.S. Department of State, through its Cyberspace and Digital Policy program (CFDA 19.665), has awarded a $2,925,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Meridian International Center to build capacity for responsible, inclusive, and rights-respecting approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) development and governance at and around multilateral forums. The project, titled "Building Capacity for Responsible, Inclusive, and Rights-Respecting Approaches to AI (RIRA)," is designed to...

This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an ethical framework to guide research on online communities. Awarded to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the three-year project will engage representatives from five online communities to create actionable guidelines. A team of researchers will follow a participatory process with community members and organizers to...