[Air-L] ISOC Foundation announces 2025 Research Grantees

[Joly MacFie]

https://www.isocfoundation.org/2025/01/meet-our-2024-research-grantees-shaping-the-future-of-the-internet/


Our Research Grant Program
<https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/>
supports
global initiatives that enhance our understanding of the Internet and its
importance to everyone. We are thrilled to announce the 2024 cohort of
grant partners who will conduct innovative studies addressing the
Internet’s critical challenges while also contributing to its
sustainability and inclusivity.

This year’s *12 selected projects from six countries* will employ
innovative approaches to addressing Internet-related challenges through the
program’s core themes: a Trustworthy Internet, Decolonizing the Internet,
Greening the Internet, and the Internet Economy.

*Decolonizing the Internet*

*University of California <https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/>,
Berkeley* – USA – USD $316,919
Project: Supporting Languages in the Digital Age

*Arizona State University <https://www.asu.edu/>* – USA – USD $460,000
Project: Internet for all Native Americans

*Western Sydney University <https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/>* – Australia
– USD $474,887
Project: Decolonising digital design: Towards safe and inclusive digital
experiences for children and young people
*Greening the Internet*

*University of California <https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/>*,
Berkeley – USA – USD $499,999
Project: Greening the Internet: Transforming Useful Research into Used
Outcomes

*German Informatics Society <https://yigf.gi.de/>* – Germany – USD $349,994
Project: Unlocking the Potential of Green Coding into Practice

*Ellen Strickland* – New Zealand – USD $199,842
Project: Internet Infrastructure Climate Resilience Coalition: Action
research in Aotearoa, New Zealand

*TechSoup Global  <https://www.techsoup.org/>in partnership with Tamara
Kneese* – USA – USD $200,000
Project: Greening through collective action: Assessing the Internet’s
environmental impacts with participatory methods
*An Internet Economy*

*TEDIC <https://www.tedic.org/>* – Paraguay – USD $345,000
Project: Ensuring fair work standards in the digital realm: A multi-faceted
approach in South America

*TechSoup Global <https://www.techsoup.org/> in partnership
with PersonalData.IO <https://personaldata.io/en/home-en/>* – Switzerland –
USD $495,000
Project: Decoding Algorithmic Management for Platform Workers’ Calculative
Power

*A Trustworthy Internet*

*Internet Security Research Group <https://www.abetterinternet.org/>* – USA
– USD $350,000
Project: Building Divvi Up, a System for Privacy-Preserving Metrics
Collection

*Georgia Institute of Technology <https://www.gatech.edu/>* – USA – USD
$350,000
Project: Governing Identity Online: Nations and Technologists Defining
Who’s Who?

*Code for Science & Society <https://www.codeforsociety.org/> in
partnership with **Distributed AI Research Institute*
<https://www.dair-institute.org/>– USA – USD $500,000
Project: Community-Centered Sovereign Language Technologies for Online
Knowledge Repositories

To learn more about the Internet Society Foundation’s Research Grant Program
<https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/> and
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