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Winners of the 2019 Chapterthon To Be Announced On 11 December – Voting Is Open Now!

"Connecting the unconnected" on a delegate's t-shirt at the 4th annual Summit on Community Networks in Africa

We’re thrilled to showcase this year’s creative, innovative and impactful projects aimed at ‘Connecting the Unconnected’. These short-term projects were run by twenty-eight of our Chapters that participated in the 2019 Chapterthon. We highly encourage you to take a few minutes to view the amazing work accomplished by your peers, and vote for your favorite project.

The winners of the 2019 Chapterthon will be announced during the upcoming Community Forum on 11 December, 13:00 UTC. Please join us in celebrating the amazing projects. The winning Chapters will be rewarded with a 1st prize of 3000 USD, 2nd prize of 2000 USD, and 3rd prize of 1000 USD. 

Make your vote count before 6 December: vote now. 

Find out who the winners are on 11 December: register here.

Image credit: © Internet Society / Nyani Quarmyne / Panos Pictures

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2019 Chapterthon – Our Chapters, Connecting the World One Community at a Time

Each year, the Chapterthon project competition brings enthusiasm and excitement among our global community. We look forward to this time of year, when our communities mobilize and work alongside each other to achieve a common goal for the development of the Internet.

For the 2019 Chapterthon, we are delighted to announce that 34 Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) from across the globe have started implementing their work on local solutions that will bring some of the hardest-to-reach places and community segments online—connecting the unconnected.

Over the next two months, these 34 projects will:

  • connect underprivileged and rural areas in Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Mali, and South Africa;
  • build a community network in Kenya;
  • establish online databases for rural farmers in Burkina Faso and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines;
  • create an online audio library for people living with disabilities in northern rural Argentina;
  • revolutionize a mobile network unit in Madagascar for use in the event of a natural disaster;
  • educate and empower over fifty rural women on how to use the Internet during a friendly game of “Tag”;
  • build an FM broadcast system in rural Ghana; preserve Indigenous culture in rural Brazil;
  • sweat it out at a bootcamp in Continue reading