🧑‍💻 Their confidence is growing. Their creativity is emerging. And many are already taking on freelance design work.

🔗 When accessibility is prioritized, everyone can thrive in the digital world: www.isocfoundation.org/2025/12/digi...

🌐 Now 15 young learners from across the country are gaining industry-ready digital design skills supported by real-time sign language interpretation, accessible learning materials, and inclusive teaching methods.

🇧🇩 With support from the Internet Society Foundation’s SCILLS Program, the Access Bangladesh Foundation launched Bangladesh’s first fully accessible online Graphic Design course for youth with hearing and speech disabilities.

🌍 Together, this partnership is proving what’s possible when innovation meets community-driven impact: a scalable, self-sustaining model for true digital inclusion in last-mile communities.

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👉 Media Matters for Women anchors the community side—leading outreach, delivering training, ensuring safeguarding, and providing ongoing mentorship so that the Digitruck reaches the most marginalized.

👉 Close the Gap Kenya provides the technical backbone—refurbishing the container, installing laptops and solar systems, and ensuring the Digitruck meets international standards.

The Digitruck Salone Project, implemented by Media Matters for Women (MMW) in partnership with Close the Gap Kenya and funded by the Internet Society Foundation’s BOLT Grant Program, is bringing digital skills directly to girls and women in the most remote, high-poverty villages.

👉 KENET’s work isn’t just about connection, it’s about lasting impact through capacity building, local partnerships, and innovative, low-cost technology solutions.

KENET’s journey is redefining what’s possible when innovation meets community-driven change — ensuring that no learner is left offline.

🇰🇪 Through the Internet Society Foundation’s BOLT program, KENET is bridging the digital divide by connecting schools, hospitals, libraries, and training institutes in rural counties in Kenya.

🔗 With better connectivity, people in disaster-prone regions can act quickly, safeguard lives, and rebuild stronger: www.isocfoundation.org/story/from-r...

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🌐 Implemented by the grantee partner Digital Empowerment Foundation, with the support of the Internet Society Foundation Resiliency grant program, this network not only helps increase response time but also ensures that information can be shared among communities, local authorities, and turists.

🛜 To strengthen disaster preparedness, the Uttarakhand Wireless Aid Community Network project is setting up advanced Internet infrastructure in 10 villages.

🌏 Uttarakhand frequently faces natural disasters, including floods and landslides. These are unpredictable and often leave communities disconnected at the most critical times.

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👉 By investing in local capacity building, with this training, BOSCO Uganda transformed participants from passive maintainers into proactive guardians of connectivity, ensuring reliable Internet access for education, communication, and emergency response in Northern Uganda.

🌐 With the support of the Internet Society Foundation’s Resiliency grant program, a crucial technical training program was carried out, equipping the community. This will enable them to not only repair infrastructure but also anticipate, withstand, and recover from disruptions more effectively.