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Life on the Line
The Markle Foundation, Oxygen Media, WebMD and the Foundation for Accountability collaborated to produce Life
on the Line, an engaging initiative that uses a combination of media-cable TV and the Web-to inspire and enable
women to be active participants in their own health care. Life on the Line has provided valuable insights into
how these media can influence the public's knowledge of and attitudes toward health. (more)
Program Area: Health
Initiated: March 2003
Bridges.org
Grant to Bridges.org for their mission in promoting Real Access to information and communication technology
(ICT) by researching, testing, and promoting best practices for sustainable, empowering technology use to help
people in developing countries improve their lives. Through this grant Markle will be provided with some of the
research underpinning the work of the Global Digital Opportunity Initiative (GDOI).
Program Area: Policy
for a Networked Society > IT
for Development
Initiated: July 2002
Connecting for Health
A public-private collaborative addressing the challenges of mobilizing health information in the US to improve
quality, conduct timely research, empower patients to become full participants in their care, and bolster the public
health infrastructure. (more)
Program Area: Health
Initiated: June 2002
Markle
Telemedicine Clinic in Cambodia
In collaboration with American Assistance for Cambodia, Partners Telemedicine, and the Sihanouk Hospital Center
of Hope, Markle established a clinic that uses the Internet to bring the expertise of some of the most highly
trained and respected American doctors to a remote Cambodian province that suffers from a lack of access to health
care services. The clinic provides an innovative model for remote care in the developing world. (more)
Program Area: Health
Initiated: May 2002
Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age
The Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, comprised of a diverse and bipartisan group
of experienced policymakers, senior executives from the information technology industry, public interest
advocates, and experts in privacy, intelligence, and national security, is designed to inform the policy judgments
of the federal, state and local governments about the collection and use of information as it relates to national
security.
Program Area: National Security
Initiated: March 2002
Interaction - American Council
for Voluntary International Action:
To expand nongovernmental organizations' (NGOs) use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to
facilitate their humanitarian relief and development work.
Program Area: Policy
for a Networked Society > Policy Participation
Initiated: March 2002
METAWEB (Applied Minds/The Knowledge Web)
Markle is supporting innovator Danny Hillis in an exploratory project designed to further his vision for a technical
architecture that can facilitate the public's access to relevant, trustworthy electronic information. This effort
considers the feasibility of an "intelligent" network that would build on the existing Internet to help the public
to find information. Mr. Hillis hopes to explain how building the technical capability to adjust to a user's
individual preferences and knowledge levels can provide enhanced value and relevance for content. The project
draws upon Mr. Hillis' prior work and incorporates the expertise of several health and technology advisors such
as Martin Greenberger, Katrina Heron, Alan Kay, Clay Shirky, and Vic Strecher.(more)
Program Area: Health
Initiated: February 2002
Terrorism: Questions and Answers
The Council on Foreign Relations, in cooperation with the Markle Foundation launched an online encyclopedia of
terrorism to give the public an up-to-date, easy-to-read, authoritative primer on what the experts know - and
don't know. The website also features This Week in the War on Terrorism summarizing new events in key areas such
as the Investigation, Homeland Defense, New Legislation, and Global Repercussions of 9/11. (Go to website)
Program Area: National Security
Initiated: January 2002
The Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI)
The project is leading consultative, coalition-based efforts to identify country-specific legal and regulatory impediments to Internet development, and is working
with local initiatives to integrate open Internet principles.
Program Area: Policy for a
Networked Society > IT for Development
Initiated: January 2002
World Resources Institute
This grant to the World Resources Institute (WRI) is generating greater understanding within the business sector about
the potential of information and communications technologies (ICT) in developing nations.
Program Area: Policy for a Networked Society > IT for Development
Initiated: January 2002
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