[governance] IGC

[Janna Anderson]

Isn't the IGC part of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility?
That's how I first found the IGC and joined it. http://cpsr.org/issues/ig/

Would that organization be way to leverage this?


On 12/11/09 8:43 AM, "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam at jacquelinemorris.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jeremy
> Do we have a fiscal organization that can apply for and receive funds? That's
> one of the organizational problems of the IGC that would prevent accessing
> grant funding...
> Jacqueline
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org]
> Sent: Friday, 11 December 2009 04:30 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: Re: [governance] IGC
> 
> On funding sources for the IGC, the UN Democracy Fund has its fourth round of
> funding open until the end of the year.  It seems that funding the IGC would
> fit well within the funding criteria, including that of "Civil society
> empowerment ... activities that strengthen civil society capacities to
> participate in democratic processes, including umbrella organizations and
> institutional interfaces between civil society and the State."
> 
> http://www.un.org/democracyfund/Docs/4thRound_ProjectProposalGuidelines_Englis
> h.pdf
> 
> I would suggest the IGC consider putting in an application, which I could help
> with if others agree.

-- 
Janna Quitney Anderson
Director of Imagining the Internet
www.imaginingtheinternet.org

Associate Professor of Communications
Director of Internet Projects
School of Communications
Elon University
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