Deadline: 15-Sep-21
Proposals are invited for Grant for the Web, a fund to boost open, fair, and inclusive standards and innovation in Web Monetization. The fund prioritizes innovation through openly networked payments enabled by the Interledger Protocol and the Web Monetization API.
Grant for the Web is founded on the belief that a healthy internet needs openness and opportunity, and that it cannot be built on the backs of individuals’ security and privacy.
These funds will seed an ecosystem that will challenge the web’s most urgent issues: loss of privacy, centralization of power, and inequalities in online participation.
Award Categories
- Business Plans for Web Monetized Content
- Exploring the relationship between specific content types and consumer appetites for monetization by offering value propositions that are different from traditional web business models.
- Web Monetization API & Interledger Prototypes
- Building technical infrastructure that will advance the capabilities of Web Monetization to launch new business models for the web.
- Research with and for the Web Monetization Ecosystem
- Producing research, reports, and thought leadership to convince more people to adopt Web Monetization technology and practices.
- Advocacy and Public Education
- Helping others learn about and advocate for openly networked payments enabled by the Interledger Protocol and the Web Monetization API.
What They’re Looking For?
- They aim to fund innovation supporting openly-networked payments on the web using the Interledger Protocol and the Web Monetization standard.
- Our goal is iterative learning in order to build a healthy, vibrant ecosystem of web monetized tools, content, and resources.
- They recognize that dominant business models of the web are controlled by the same institutions, companies, and algorithms that reinforce systemic racism and inequality. They seek to support communities that have – and continue to be – systemically and deliberately excluded from opportunities around financial inclusion and empowerment.
- They also aim to promote good web design principles, ensuring that the emerging Web Monetization ecosystem supports scalable, global, and open standardization.
- Projects must be manageable experiments, but they are not required to succeed – They recognize that They don’t know the limits of the technology and are enthusiastically open to boundary-pushing ideas.
What kinds of projects will Grant for the Web support?
Special consideration will be given to projects that reflect the Collaborators’ values of:
- Increasing access to the full capacity of the internet, both for content consumption and content creation, for communities and individuals that have historically been marginalized, disadvantaged, or are without such access
- Promoting a vibrant commons on the internet of shareable content
- Increasing users’ autonomy, privacy, and control over their own data
- Increasing access to the full capacity of the internet, both for content consumption and content creation, for communities and individuals that have historically been marginalized, disadvantaged, or are without such access
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants from almost anywhere in the world can apply for funding. Individuals, organizations, companies, and institutions are eligible to apply. All applications must be submitted in English.
- Awards are subject to compliance with all applicable laws, including those enforced by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
- Applicants must be 18 years or older. Youth 13 years or older may participate in a proposed project, but an adult must be the project lead.
- Grant for the Web seeks to specifically fund globally diverse and historically underrepresented groups to capitalize on new economic models on the web.
Additional Details
- Grant for the Web will fund projects scoped up to six months in duration. If you have an idea that is more ambitious, focus your application on a deliverable that can be achieved in the first six months.
- At least 50% of all funds distributed through this open call will go to projects that are openly licensed.
- One application per person or organization.
- Projects can only be submitted under one category.
- While projects and content can be in any language, applications must be submitted in English.
For more information, visit https://www.grantfortheweb.org/