Tag: funding
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A few reasons why grant applications fail.
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There are lots of things that foundations are doing to hamper this new disruptive stuff,” Lublin said. One of the remarks she often heard from foundations was: “You don’t fit our buckets.” “No shit,” she offered in response. “It’s new.” Lublin wondered if upkeep of the Ford Foundation’s palatial headquarters, an impressive building near the…
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“Counting What Counts” – Nesta on Big Data in the arts and cultural sectors
In this excellent February 2013 paper for Nesta, Counting What Counts, Anthony Lilley, never one to mince his words, pushes the arts and cultural sector (public service broadcasting included) to embrace the opportunity of Big Data: There are some fundamental barriers to the use of big data approaches in arts and cultural institutions. The first…
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Urgent: micro-grants available for ITU/WCIT work (deadline Wednesday night)
Here’s an urgent message from the Mozilla Foundation regarding micro-grants for work related to the ITU (deadline Wednesday night GMT) – read below, and send your application to apply@mozillafoundation.org (do not send your application to mediapolicy.org or to OSF). — Open Internet Microgrants to Support Civil Society Engagement with the ITU On December 3rd, the…
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Map of business models for online journalism startups, from Chasing Sustainability on the Net, by Esa Sirkkunen, Clare Cook, Pekka Pekkala, Mikihito Tanaka, Johanna Vehkoo, Nicola Bruno, and Luchino Sivori.
Sameer Padania 