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<div align="center"><b><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">AFRINIC's
Fund for Internet Research and Education – FIRE Programme:
APPLY FOR A GRANT</font></b></div>
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<div class="yiv0489177242MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">There
are 9 days left for the call for entries for the
2013-2014 FIRE Grants. </div>
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<div class="yiv0489177242MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">The Fund
for Internet Research and Education (FIRE) aims at
encouraging ICT development innovations that
contribute to sustainable development in Africa.</div>
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<div class="yiv0489177242MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">The FIRE
Programme gives grants of up to <b>USD 10 000</b> to
projects that will be implemented in the Africa region
within a 6 to 12 month period. </div>
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<div class="yiv0489177242MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">The FIRE
Programme invites African organisations, entrepreneurs
and innovators to propose projects under one of three
categories which include:</div>
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<div class="yiv0489177242MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;">1)
Innovation on Access provision: fostering ICT growth
in Africa by ensuring that the delivery mechanism is
available, reliable and scalable;</div>
<div class="yiv0489177242MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;">2)
E-development: the development, deployment and
enhancement of content, applications and solutions.</div>
<div class="yiv0489177242MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;">3)
Freedom of Expression: initiatives related to freedom
of expression, freedom of association, privacy,
security, consumer's rights, new forms of intellectual
property in the digital environment, and a wider range
of issues related to Internet and human rights.</div>
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<div class="yiv0489177242MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b style="">The
registration deadline for the 2013-2014 Grants has
been extended to <span style="">30 November
2013. <br>
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<div class="yiv0489177242MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><b style=""> </b> For
detailed information about competition categories,
conditions of entry and submission procedures, please
click on the links below:<br>
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English version: <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv0489177242moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.fireafrica.org/theme/Default/documents/Grant_advert_EN_nov.pdf">http://www.fireafrica.org/theme/Default/documents/Grant_advert_EN_nov.pdf</a><br>
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French Version: <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv0489177242moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.fireafrica.org/theme/Default/documents/Grant_advert_FR_nov.pdf">http://www.fireafrica.org/theme/Default/documents/Grant_advert_FR_nov.pdf</a><br>
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Visit <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fireafrica.org/">www.fireafrica.org</a>
or send us an email on: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fireprogram@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:fireprogram@afrinic.net">fireprogram@afrinic.net</a>
for any other query.</font>
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<div class="yiv0489177242MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Regards,
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The FIRE Programme Secretariat<br>
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