Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA)
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The Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) grant program is a United States Department of Education
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grant program that provides grants to develop innovative techniques or programs that address national teaching and research needs in international education and foreign languages by using technology to access, collect, organize, preserve, and widely disseminate information on world regions and countries other than the United States.
United States Department of Education
The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government...
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National Resource Center
The National Resource Center Program of the U.S. Department of Education provides funding grants to American universities to establish, strengthen, and operate language and area or international studies centers that will be national resources for teaching any modern foreign language.Also known as...
grant program that provides grants to develop innovative techniques or programs that address national teaching and research needs in international education and foreign languages by using technology to access, collect, organize, preserve, and widely disseminate information on world regions and countries other than the United States.
2009-2013 Projects
- Africa's Sources of Knowledge - Digital Library (ASK-DL) (Harvard University)
- Audio, Maps, and Images of South Asia (University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
) - Caribbean Newspaper Digital LibraryDigital Library of the CaribbeanThe Digital Library of the Caribbean is an international digital library operated collaboratively by the contributing partners.-Partners:...
a project of the Digital Library of the CaribbeanDigital Library of the CaribbeanThe Digital Library of the Caribbean is an international digital library operated collaboratively by the contributing partners.-Partners:...
(Florida International University) - Cooperative Digitization of International Research Materials (American Institute for Yemeni Studies)
- Cultural and Linguistic Archive of Mesoamerica (Indiana University)
- Digital Archives of Research on Thailand (DART) (University of Washington)
- Digitization of Southeast Asian Materials (Northern Illinois University)
- Energy Policy in Latin America (University of New Mexico)
- Gateway to Gazettes (Yale University)
- Latin American Electronic Data Archives (University of Texas at Austin)
- Oral African Languages Library (Michigan State University)
- Southeast Asian Languages Library (University of Wisconsin)
- Tibetan and Himalayan Library (University of Virginia)
2005-2009 Projects
- Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library
- Central American and Mexican Video Archive
- A Digital Library for Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
- A Digital Library of the Caribbean
- Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa
- Harvester for Knowledge Streams in the Americas
- Local Libraries and Archives Project
- The Southeast Asia Digital Library
- The Southeast Asian Languages Library
- TICFIA South Asia (Center for Research Libraries)
2002-2005 Projects
- Access Indonesia
- Access to Russian Archives
- An English-Language Website on Developments in Japan in On-Line Journalism and Information/ Communications Technologies
- Mining Hidden Gems: Building a Latin American Open Archives Portal for Scholars
- OACIS for the Middle East: Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials
- Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR)
- Sources of Authentic Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages
- South African Collaborative Film and Video Project
- South Asian Information Access: A Federated Program to Expand the Resources for Understanding the Subcontinent (University of Chicago)
- The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library and Information Community: A Technological Model for the Nexus of Information and Community in the Academic Study of Other Cultures
1999-2002 Projects
- Accessing African Scholarly Journals
- American Overseas Digital Library
- Central Eurasian Information Resource
- The Digital Asia Library
- The Digital South Asia Library
- Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
- Providing Web Based Bilingual Access to Chinese Business Education Materials
- Russian Periodical Index Digital Project
External links
- Department of Education page on TICFIA
- Collaborative page by TICFIA Grantees and earlier version
- 2010 TICFIA Conference Wiki
Grantees and Projects
- American Center for Mongolian StudiesAmerican Center for Mongolian StudiesThe American Center for Mongolian Studies is a US registered 5013 not-for-profit, academic organization which promotes research and scholarship in Inner Asia, a broad region consisting of Mongolia and parts of China, Russia and Central Asia, including Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Buryatia, Tuva and...
- Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
- CAMVA: Central American and Mexican Video Archive (2005-2009)
- CLAMA: Cultural and Linguistic Archive of Mesoamerica (2009-2013)
- Digital Library of the Caribbean
- Digital South Asia Library
- Gateway to Gazettes
- Japan Media ReviewJapan Media ReviewJapan Media Review is an English academic online journal dedicated to the Japanese press.The Japan Media Review describes itself as "an online-only journal that examines how emerging technologies are changing the practice, ethics, law, business and politics of journalism in Japan.The Japan Media...
- Latin American Electronic Data Archive (LAEDA)
- Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
- Latin American Open Archives Portal