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The Digital Opportunity Initiative (GDOI)
GDOI is a global public-private partnership between the United Nations Development Programme, the Markle Foundation and a broad set of North-South private and public sector experts and organizations committed to increasing the impact of information and communications technologies to achieve development goals. It will focus on a diverse set of developing countries, selected to represent a range of geographic, cultural and economic circumstances, as well as on the basis of the initiative's potential impact, sustainability and demonstration value.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > IT for Development
Initiated: November 2000

Global Digital Opportunity Project (GDOP)
GDOP seeks to enhance developing countries' ability to fully participate in and benefit from the networked economy and society. This project is working to narrow the economic and social divides within and among nations, advancing the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to address some of the most important development challenges faced by societies around the world.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > IT for Development
Initiated: November 2000

The Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Funded to enable students, working under close faculty supervision, to represent clients before courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and international tribunals. The Boalt Hall clinic will promote the interests of underrepresented groups in society. It will also work to create new models for public-interest legal practice related to the Internet and new technologies, a field which hardly exists today. Part of the Internet Clinical Advocacy Project.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > Policy Participation
Initiated: November 2000

Youth-e-Vote: Student Vote 2000
Supported the Freedom Channel in developing Youth-e-Vote, the first national opportunity to register and vote online in American history. The project was designed to involve young people in the electoral process and to help ensure that they become future voters.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > Public Engagement
Initiated: July 2000

Educational Netcasting Foundation: Support for the Martin Luther King After School Program 2000
The Markle Foundation provided funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. After School Program, a pilot program designed to introduce low-income youth to basic computer skills through high-quality educational content about black history and culture. Part of the Domestic Digital Divide Initiative.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > Public Engagement
Initiated: June 2000

Leadership Conference On Civil Rights
This grant helped The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) to develop a comprehensive program to educate and activate the nation's leading civil rights groups on Digital Divide issues. Part of the Domestic Digital Divide Initiative.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > Public Engagement
Initiated: April 2000

Markle Foundation / Accountability Framework For The Internet
This project launched a public opinion research effort that will focus on the question of accountability for Internet policy. This research was the basis for development of an "Accountability Framework" to help policymakers, the press and the online community understand what Internet users and non-users alike expect from the full range of public and private sector actors who shape, regulate, or use the Internet environment.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > Policy Participation
Initiated: March 2000

Salzburg Seminar: ICANN Travel Grants
This initiative, with matching funds provided by the Ford Foundation, enabled individuals and non-profit groups particularly from developing countries to more fully participate in Internet governance by assisting them in attending international ICANN meetings. Part of the Markle Foundation's ICANN related efforts.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > Policy Participation
Initiated: March 2000

Markle Foundation - Internet Clinical Advocacy Project
This project allocation supports the development of law school-based clinics and related academic clinical institutions that allow law students and others to work with seasoned advocates to promote the public interest in the area of the Internet and other new information technologies.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > Policy Participation
Initiated: March 2000

The Children's Partnership
Part of Markle's Domestic Digital Divide Initiative, which focuses on the development of on-line content and services for low-income communities, this matching grant provides continued funding for The Children's Partnership (TCP) over a three-year period. In the past year, TCP has continued its significant work, which began with the release of the report, "Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Americans: The Digital Divide's New Frontier" in March 2000.

Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > Public Engagement
Initiated: March 2000

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