Africa Online Safety Fund Grants for Entrepreneurs Fund 2024 is open to organisations throughout Africa, but is prioritizing Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast. Get started below.
This article contains how to apply and register for Africa Online Safety Fund Grants for Entrepreneurs in African Countries. Towards the end I will show you to register and apply online successfully and requirements involves.
Brief about Africa Online Safety Fund Grants 2024
Over 500 million people have access to the internet in Africa; and although this reflects just under 40% of the population, this level of penetration is 110 times what it was just 20 years ago. Â Not only has internet access increased dramatically, but so has smartphone usage, with ownership now at 250 million people.
This exponential increase in internet, smartphone and mobile network usage has created extraordinary new opportunities for socio-economic development on the African continent. However, this rapid growth rate has simultaneously created a range of safety concerns, including:
- Identify theft
- Bullying and harassment
- Gender trafficking
- Hate crimes
- Terrorist recruitment and promotion
- Miss or disinformation
- Financial scams
To address these issues, the Africa Online Safety Fund, with support from Google.org, has been established to support innovative existing and new solutions to these challenges.  While not exclusively focused, the Fund will be favouring solutions, which address women and children’s online safety specifically, as they are the most targeted communities in this regard.
Africa Online Safety Fund Structure
The Africa Online Safety Fund will be awarding grants to organisations that address one or more of the safety issues the internet facilitates.
There are two categories of funding: Transformative and Catalytic. The Transformative projects are intended to be larger in scale, reach multiple geographies and or potentially large numbers of beneficiaries, and be scalable as a solution. The Catalytic projects are intended to be smaller, targeted, and potentially only locally or culturally specific. The Transformative grants will be a maximum of $100,000 and the Catalytic Grants will be a maximum of $10,000.
A $1,000,000 commitment has been made to address online safety issues in Africa.
Eligibility for 2024 Africa Online Safety Fund Grants Application Form
- Applicants can be public benefit organisations, private or from the public sector.
- No individual applicants will be considered. The Fund is open to organisations throughout Africa, but is prioritising Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast.
- Only completed applications will be considered.
- Method of Application for 2024 Africa Online Safety Fund Grants
- Stage one is a short application form to be completed by all interested organisations. Click here to apply.
All applicants that are shortlisted will be eligible to complete the second stage of the application process.
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