Subject: Re: [ccAfrica] wd: [cc-affiliates] Affiliate Project Grants Program Launches
Date: 03 July 2013 16:50:41 PM SAST
Dear Tobias, Thank you for the clarifications. I guess as you said we should apply in big numbers and the Uhuru Bus sounds an ideal project. Can CC Uganda put forward this on behalf of the African Affiliates? If not someone else can do it. Will have to work on the proposal soon. Paul.
Dear Paul, dear CC Africa colleagues:
Paul, let me use your email as a peg to remind everybody on the CC Africa and CC Africa OER mailing lists of this wonderful opportunity to apply for the Affiliate Project Grant, thanks to Google. In other words, Google has given CC some money to support several CC-related projects around the world in the next 9 months. Please have a look at this website for a detailed description of what this Grant is all about: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Affiliate_Project_Grants
This certainly is a great opportunity for us in Africa to do some of the projects we long wanted to do but never could because we had no money to make them a reality. In this light, it would be a real pity if we did not submit several proposals from affiliate countries and other communities in Africa. I particularly appeal to the CC public leads in our affiliate countries to come up with some project ideas/proposals before the deadline of 8 July. The aforementioned website will give you some food for thought of what kind of projects we could do. Also remember that many of us really liked the idea of having an African version of the Libre Bus initiative ( http://www.librebusconosur.org/en), i.e. an Uhuru Bus. Perhaps someone wants to take the lead on this and submit a proposal?
Now, coming back to your question Paul of how much money is available and whether the money is to be spent per country or per region. Google has given money to CC per region. The African region has received a total of USD 20,000 (which by the way needs to be paid pack if we do not spend it). This means that we could either have one big project for that amount or several smaller projects in different countries (e.g. 6 projects for USD 3,000 each). Personally I would prefer multiple smaller projects but then again if we had a big collaborative project like Uhuru Bus I would not have a problem to spend it all on one. I hope this answers your question?
Please do not hesitate to contact Alex or myself should you have any further questions regarding this grant.
Best,
Tobias
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Alex and Tobias, Please assist on this I had communication with Meryl from CC and it would appear that they really meant one project per region hence one for Africa! I wish the could at least say one project per country. Paul.
On 17 Jun 2013, at 16:17, <paulogendi AT gmail.com> wrote:
Hi friends,
I hope you are all doing well. On behalf of AIDS Law Project, I would like to inquire about the grant announced. I am affiliate with the Kenya CC team. As part of promoting health info access, we are proposing to develop, print and disseminate a popular version of the EAC Trips flexibilities policy, 2013. Kindly advice if your funding covers the same.
Best, Paul Ogendi ---------- Sent from my Nokia
------Original message------ From: Alex Gakuru <gakuru AT creativecommons.org> To: "CC Africa mailing list" <ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org> Cc: <ccafrica-oer AT lists.ibiblio.org> Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:30:36 AM GMT+0300 Subject: [ccAfrica] Fwd: [cc-affiliates] Affiliate Project Grants Program Launches
fyi,
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Meryl Mohan <meryl AT creativecommons.org> Date: Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:01 AM Subject: [cc-affiliates] Affiliate Project Grants Program Launches To: cc-affiliates AT lists.ibiblio.org
Hi all,
As Jess mentioned in an email earlier, Google has provided CC with grant money to seed the work of our global network by funding innovative affiliate and community projects over the next 9 months.
I'm excited to announce that the application process for these grants is now open for submissions through July 8. Applicants are eligible to receive $1 - $20,000 USD towards their project(s), although we encourage smaller funded projects.
Further details - including example projects, how to apply, and the selection process - can be found on the grant wiki page here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Affiliate_Project_Grants
We are looking forward to reviewing all the exciting project ideas that come from our affiliate community. We are hoping for at least one project per region, so we strongly encourage everyone to apply with any projects they have in mind, whether small (eg writing and printing factsheets) or large (eg running a region wide series of workshops).
Let us know if you have any questions.
Meryl
-- Meryl Mohan Project Coordinator
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