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Grant Guidelines for the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries Program

Call for Round I Applications: The New Scholars online grant application proposal system will accept Round 1 applications from May 1st — June 24th.

The Elsevier Foundation supports the efforts of libraries to enhance the quality of life in developing countries by advancing knowledge in science, the social sciences technology and medicine. The Foundation provides one, two and three year grants to…

The Spanish 
Telecentre and ICT Spaces Academy launched on May 10 a new training cycle, historically the 19th edition, but in fact the first one with the following new dynamic: for the first time this initiative is developed in a context of alliance among a big number of organizations both, public and private, bringing together most of telecentre and networks in Spain.

This alliance includes a…

Microsoft Asia Pacific organized a workshop in Manila to educate nonprofit organizations on how to fully utilize the merits of social media. Heather Mansfield, the founder of DIOSA Communications, was invited to share her years of experience in social media at the workshop. Twenty-three representatives from 20 nonprofit organizations, who are strategic partners and Microsoft beneficiaries of software donations, attended the workshop. Additionally, five students who are aspiring to be part of…

Are We Overlooking a Potential Engine for Social and Economic Change?

This was the question posed to participants during a National Forum on Public Access to Information in the Philippines held this morning, May 16, at the National Library of the Philippines in Manila. The forum, which was organized by IREX, the National Library of the Philippines and the Molave Development Foundation, Inc. as part of the…