Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA)
The Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) grant program is a United States Department of Education Title VI 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.[1]
Projects Supported by TICFIA
TICFIA supports multiple projects on a multi-year grant cycle.[2]
2009-2013 Projects
- Africa's Sources of Knowledge - Digital Library (ASK-DL) (Harvard University)
- Audio, Maps, and Images of South Asia (University of Chicago)
- Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library a project of the Digital Library of the Caribbean (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
Footnotes
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 Studies
- 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 Review
- Latin American Electronic Data Archive (LAEDA)
- Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
- Latin American Open Archives Portal
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