Are you working on a Open Source software project in international development that needs support for one or more of these activities:
- Enterprise-Level Quality Improvements
- Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
- Platform Building and Generalization
- Product Consolidation
- Managing Upstream Dependencies and Downstream Forks.
Then apply now for the Strategic Grants Program from the Open Source Center at the Digital Impact Alliance. The OSC will be giving out over $1 million in support to overcome common design and implementation challenges for many technology for development projects.
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Proposal Deadline: July 31, 2018
The DIAL Open Source Center’s mission is to convene a vibrant and inclusive community for builders of free and open source software – promoting knowledge sharing, collaboration and co-investment in technology and human capacity to support positive social change in communities around the world.
Up to five grants totaling $900,000 and up to 480 hours of in-kind support will be awarded along to projects that foster a healthy, sustainable, open source community and products. This award is expected to span six months of project activity, with an option to extend.
DAIL is accepting proposal questions on their community forum and applications should be emailed to [email protected]
DIAL Grant Eligibility
To be eligible for funding, your application needs to explain how it meets the following requirements:
- Proposal extends, integrates, or improves one or more existing open source project(s) that is no longer in a conceptual phase, and has existing published code.
- Target product(s) must be made available under a license approved by the Open Source Initiative or Free Software Foundation.
- Applicants must be able to demonstrate successful past performance in implementation of software product development and documentation.
- Only one application per product(s) is permitted under this RFA.
- Applicants must identify a suitable recipient of funds such as a product ecosystem partner or fiscal sponsor, which displays sound management in the form of financial, administrative, and technical policies and procedures and present a system of internal controls that safeguard assets; protect against fraud, waste, and abuse; and support the achievement of program goals and objectives.
The solutions should also align with the Principles for Digital Development, with a specific focus on the following principles:
- Understanding the Ecosystem
- Building for Sustainability
- Reusing and Improving
- Using Open Source
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I would like to send application for grant funding for Digital Health Solution to help my rural development society in India.
You can apply to Digital Square for digital health solutions. Digital Square uses a co-investment model to coordinate investments into reusable, adaptable technology solutions called global goods. Several times a year, Digital Square holds a “call for proposals” where organizations can submit concept notes for new global goods via their Open Proposal Process & Platform. Global goods that are selected by the Governing Board receive funding to scaled up across and between developing countries.
Hello. I am proud of me being an IT student in Jigawa State Polytechnic, Dutse, Nigria. Thank you for the support.
Please assist me, I am from Swaziland in South Africa. I would like to request for funding. I wish to open an NGO where babies that are born unplanned can be kept and cared for instead of them being dumped in pit latrins or forest…but can explain in more details given the opportunity. Thanking you in advance.
The overall objective of the Strategic Grant Program is to support solutions to common challenges and to fund projects that foster creativity, scale, and support functionality of the software by removing some of the barriers to FOSS projects meeting full maturity. I don’t think starting an NGO for children of unwanted pregnancies would qualify for grant funding under the DIAL request for proposal guidelines.
We represent more than 7500 active Member of small cooperatives farmers. Our Federation namely Mauritius agricultural marketing cooperative federation Ltd was registered on March 1968 to help the small farmers. We are seeking for funding assistance to tackle from climate change in Mauritius
Make sure your proposal extends, integrates, or improves one or more existing open source project(s) in agriculture that is no longer in a conceptual phase, and has existing published code. You must be able to demonstrate successful past performance in implementation of software product development and documentation and identify a suitable recipient of funds such as a product ecosystem partner or fiscal sponsor, which displays sound management processes.