Following are 10 opportunities related to Internet freedom, open society, infrastructure for access, 3D storage of cultural data and big data. All were identified by a Pivot funding search.
1. Open Society Foundation
Arab Regional Office
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2. U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Request for Statements of Interest: Internet Freedom Programs
3. The Internet Society
4. National Science Foundation
Civil Infrastructure Systems
engineering of infrastructure systems for resilience and sustainability.... Areas of interest include intra- and inter-physical, information and behavioral dependencies of infrastructure systems, infrastructure management, construction engineering, and transportation systems. Special emphasis is on the design, construction, operation, and improvement of infrastructure networks with a focus on systems engineering and design, performance management, risk analysis, life-cycle analysis, modeling and simulation, behavioral and social considerations not excluding other methodological areas or the integration of methods.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/ pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13352 [Note: I served as program officer in the division that manages this program, and have greater than usual familiarity with it. If you'd like to know more, let me know.]
5. The U.S.-Japan Foundation
6. NEH
7. NIST
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Pilots Cooperative Agreement Proram
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Pilots Cooperative Agreement Proram
http://www.grants.gov/search/ search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId= 218434
8. DOE
Scientific Collaborations at Extreme-Scale
9. NSF
Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering
10. U.S. Department of the Interior
3D High Definition Digital Cultural Resource Documentation, Interpretation, Website Development and Archival Storage