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Press and Media
In April 2005, The San Francisco Chronicle carried an Associated Press article on The Gandhi Project after the movie 'Gandhi' was screened (in Arabic) in Palastinian towns, villages, and refugee camps. The Project aims to "encourage peace and tolerance in the region through the promotion of Gandhi's principles and philosophy." The article, "'Gandhi' in Arabic Screened in West Bank", is available here >>.
Balancing Act is a weekly news website that covers ICT developments across Africa. In June 2004, Balancing Act published an article about Global Catalyst Foundation's Kasulu & Mtabila Internet Project in Issue No 211 - Energy Special: Generating Electricity for IT in Remote Locations. The article, titled "Solar or Bio-gas? Lessons from Rural Tanzania," is available here >>. An earlier article from the BBC on this project, "Cow Pats Fuel Computers," can be viewed here >>. Read about this project's impact on Burundians in the Mtabila Refugee Camp here >>.
Since 2001, Global Catalyst Foundation's Small Tech Grants Program has awarded $130,000 to groups working in 26 developing countries. One group, the Global Education Partnership, has used their grant for an innovative wireless access project in Wundanyi, Kenya. Two Canadian ICT volunteers share details about this exciting project here >>. Another grantee from this competition, Mirror Art Group in Chiang Rai, Thailand, discusses their plans for community broadcasts to hilltribes here >>. The Global Fund for Women mentions their use of funds from the competition here >>.
A unique project in rural India set out to provide seven remote villages with ICT services. The Computer-On-Wheels (COW) project was co-funded by Global Catalyst Foundation and Digital Partners. An article on COW from early 2004 can be seen here >>, and links to more COW details are on our Asia grants page here >>.
In February 2003, The San Francisco Chronicle wrote an extended article about Digital Divide Data, a Cambodian group that trains and hires disadvantaged and disabled employees for data processing work. The story on this GCF grantee, "Tech's reach into Cambodia: Silicon Valley foundation aids nonprofit that hires the disabled", can be found here >>. Other articles about this worthy project are listed here >>.
Room to Read, a San Francisco-based NGO, specializes in acquiring resources for school libraries in Cambodia, India, Nepal, and Vietnam. An article in C|Net's news.com describes the Global Catalyst Foundation's support for computer facilities development at Room to Read projects in Nepal. Read about it here >>.
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