[Community-Discuss] Fwd: FIRE Africa Awards 2019

[DANIEL NANGHAKA]

Dear Matogoro,

I personally have submitted applications for Fire Awards and never have the
projects I have submitted got any grant. Sometimes I query the selection
whereby they do not even give feedback on what went wrong or why you did
not get the grant.
I advise that don't lean only on Fire awards or grants but try some other
methods of lobbying funding to support your project or even if possible
consider fundraising.
I wish the process was transparent on applications recieved and criteria
used in selection of grantees and also for those that did not get the
grant, feedback is given.
Otherwise, i resorted to alternative means of raising funds.

Daniel
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 19:32, Matogoro Jabera <jaberamatogoro at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Recently, AfrINIC announced for FIRE Awards for the outstanding project. I
> tried more than five times to submit my project but was not successful.
>
> I tried to contact AFRINIC but received the support which did not answered
> my question. AFRINIC claimed that the upload link was fine while to my side
> did not worked. Finally I gave up and life goes on.
>
> I think something need to be fixed at AFRINIC. Just sharing out my
> frustrations.
>
>
> Regards,
> Matogoro
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Olatunde Awobuluyi <olatunde.awobuluyi at afrinic.net>
> Date: Mon, 20 May 2019, 19:09
> Subject: FIRE Africa Awards 2019
> To: <jaberamatogoro at gmail.com>
> Cc: <fireafrica at afrinic.net>
>
>
> Dear Jabhera
>
> Thank you for reaching out to us.
>
> Please, be aware that there is a  difference between FIRE Africa Awards
> and FIRE Africa Grants.
>
> FIRE Awards are awards given to ICT related projects that are already
> completed or almost completed.
>
> FIRE Grants are funds given to ICT related projects that are in their
> infancy stage or need financial input to expand the project.
>
> Unfortunately, there will be no calls for FIRE Africa grant proposals in
> 2019.
>
> However, there is an ongoing call for FIRE Africa Awards in 2019. You can
> submit a proposal for a FIRE Africa Award using this link (
> https://fireafrica.org/awards).
>
> The "*submit your awards nomination*"  link will be on the top right pane
> of this webpage (Please view the attached image).
>
> With many thanks,
>
> The FIRE Africa team
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> Olatunde Awobuluyi
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Nanghaka Daniel K.
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(ICANN At-Large)/ former Chair - FOSSFA  / Geo4Africa Lead / Organising
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