[Foundation-l] IFAP

Sun Feb 13 22:18:05 UTC 2005

For more information about this grant (which you can actually read and
edit), see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants/IFAP.  

Another proposal for the UNESCO grant, suggested to me by some
librarian friends of mine, is also listed on that Meta: page.  Please
discuss the relative merits of the two proposals on the discussion
page.  I worry that the wiktionary proposal is not closely-enough
aligned with the current grant goals... though of course it is in line
with the much vaguer and more general IFAP goals.  The primary goals
for the current grant are more about educating professionals than
about producing content :

[ ] Promoting information literacy, through capacity building
particularly for information professionals
[ ] Strengthening awareness about the importance of preservation of
information of all kinds
[ ] Promoting a better understanding of the ethical, legal and
societal implications of ICTs

( ICTs : Information and Communication Technologies )

--SJ

PS -- please develop basic grant proposals on meta, since not everyone
has access to the grants wiki (and it is mainly for the rare bits of
information which for whatever reason shouldn't be public and
googlable).

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:39:04 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> I have written a proposal on grants.wikimedia.org In it you find a
> proposal for spending as much as we can get from UNESCO under their IFAP
> program. To ask for this grant we HAVE to apply before the 20th of Februari.
> 
> http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ifapprojects/manuals/instructions.pdf is
> the PDF with the instructions that we have to comply with.
> 
> One issue is that we have to involve the national IFAP committees .. :(
> I do not see how this can be done practically) This will have to be
> discussed how this is to be done practically..
> One answer that can be given is, that we are already working towards our
> goals.