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The Fund for Internet Research and Development – FIRE Africa – is one of Africa’s leading Grants and Awards programmes designed to encourage, and support innovations that contribute to sustainable development in Africa.
Funding: FIRE Africa provides funds in form of Grants and Awards for projects, initiatives, tools and platforms that harness the power of the Internet to empower the local and regional community to solve the Africa’s challenges.
Grants: Various types of Grants are available to fund new and existing projects with an implementation time frame of around 16 – 20 months. Scale up Grants are also available to help projects with their capacity building efforts and to reach the next phase of implementation.
Awards are given to exemplary existing projects in order to facilitate project promotion, international networking, fund acquisition, scaling and sustainability. Travel awards are also provided to facilitate travel to relevant global platforms, including the prestigious annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF), for project promotion and networking purposes.
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