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CONTENTS

1. Introducing New Digital Dividend Staff!

2. Funding Opportunity: Pan Asia ICT R&D Grants Program

3. From the Digital Dividend Clearinghouse: GLOBALMICROCOM and North-East Digital Action

4. Make the Clearinghouse Work For You! The ProjectFinder

5. Look For Our Next Issue in 2003!

1. Introducing New Digital Dividend Staff!

Hana Nielsen-Kneisler is the newest addition to the Digital Dividends team. Her duties as a Program Assistant focus on research and communication, and include supporting the Project Clearinghouse and editing the Digital Dividends Digest. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she spent three years living and working in urban and rural China. She speaks Mandarin and some Spanish.

Bill Kramer is a visiting fellow, working with Digital Dividends and several other programs at WRI. He is the president of The Knowledge Initiative (TKI), a non-profit organization concerned with issues of knowledge and economic development. Through TKI, he spent several years working in Southern Africa and Central Europe to establish state-of-the-art knowledge resource centers. He has also consulted with the Center for Global Development, Winrock International, and a number of major foundations, and spent more than 30 years in the business world.

2. Funding Opportunity: Pan Asia ICT R&D Grants Program

The Pan Asia ICT R&D Grants Program has announced its January 2003 Competition round. The competitive award is open to organizations working in the Asia-Pacific region, and will give priority to those projects that address the themes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): "Access to ICTs for All" and "ICTs as a Tool for Economic and Social Development." The deadline for applications is February 15, 2003. For full details, click here

3. From the Digital Dividend Clearinghouse: GLOBALMICROCOM and North-East Digital Action

Eight new projects have been added to the Clearinghouse since our last Digest. Highlighted in this Digest are two projects focusing on individual and organizational capacity-building through computer training services.

Aiming to help end poverty among rural communities in Nigeria, GLOBALMICROCOM is providing free Internet training and computer awareness classes. Utilizing state-of-the-art computers loaded with the latest software, the training centers specifically focus on the most marginalized populations, particularly women. Read more

Partnered with IBM and the Inter-American Foundation, RITS (Information Network for the Third Sector) has launched a campaign to provide 40 organizations in the poorest region of Brazil with a free computer and training on how to use it. Training will extend beyond basic functional operation to include a broader focus on how computers and the Internet can be used to strengthen the organizations' missions and services. Read more

*You can view and comment on these and other projects when you visit the Clearinghouse

4. Make the Clearinghouse Work For You! The ProjectFinder

The Digital Dividend ProjectFinder is the most all-inclusive project search method available on the site, combining all of the capabilites of our standard Search page with a GIS-enabled map of the world. Search results are displayed visually in their actual locations, color-coded based on the project's sector (blue for for-profit, green for non-profit, and red for government). The map is interactive, allowing the user to zoom in or out, and easily locate more information on projects of interest with a click of the mouse.

Download the ProjectFinder and try it out!

The Project Finder requires a broadband connection; those with slower connections may find it easier to search for projects using our standard Search page

5. Look For Our Next Issue in 2003!

The Digital Dividend Digest will return after the holidays. Happy New Year, and look for our next issue on January 15, 2003!