The Nominet Foundation is a charity that provides funding to innovative projects which strive to improve and encourage the safe use of the Internet for educational, inclusion and other charitable purposes. They give grants to organisations with innovative IT-related projects that can make a positive difference to people in the UK, developing countries and around the world.
Initial funding came from Nominet, which maintains the .uk register of domain names and is one of the world’s largest Internet registries.
On 29th April 2009 the Nominet Foundation announced the first projects to be funded.
The first Nominet Foundation funded projects
The British Computer Association of the Blind (BCAB) will fund a remote access support project that will allow visually impaired people access to computers and the Internet and provide training on how best to use the technology.
Funding will support the Internet Society’s Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Fellowship and Internet Governance Forum Ambassadors programmes which aim to ensure the continued development and deployment of the Internet.
Childnet will use the funding to establish and run its Youth Internet Governance Forum Project, which aims to give young people the opportunity to voice their opinions on the four main themes of the IGF; openness, access, security and diversity.
Cambridge Global Grid for Learning will enhance its 4C project (Content, Connectivity, Collaboration and Capacity), which provides a free suite of online learning and teaching applications and content for learners and educators in educational institutions worldwide.
Cambridgeshire Library Learning Services will support staff working on its Community Access Points project, providing communities in isolated rural locations and areas of high social deprivation with free access to online education and support.
YouthNet will be running a major research project which will underpin a campaign to raise awareness of digital usage among young people.
The Foundation began accepting funding applications only fairly recently. Read more about the Nominet Foundation’s initial round of grants or more information about their funding criteria.
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