Internet Infrastructure Grant Program
Without vision, hard work and creativity, the Internet would not have evolved into the resource we know and use today. In honor of the 25th anniversary of .com, VeriSign has created a grant program to foster new research, advance security and stability, and improve the Internet infrastructure for the next 25 years to come.
VeriSign will be awarding four $75,000 grants in fall 2010 with the goal of strengthening the Internet infrastructure in the following areas:
- Overall Internet Infrastructure
- Domain Name System (DNS) Security
- Internationalization of the Internet
- Infrastructure Applications
In order to qualify, applicants must be members of an academic institution, researchers, a non-profit organization or a technology high school with an international sister school.
Grant submissions will be judged by:
Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google
Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO of ICANN
Michael Chertoff, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
Paul Mockapetris, computer scientist and inventor of the Domain Name System
Ken Silva, Chief Technology Officer of VeriSign
Grant submissions are due by Oct. 15, 2010.
Grant recipients will be announced on Nov 30, 2010.
Research will be due on May 1, 2011 and presented at a symposium in Washington, DC in June 2011.
