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Sylvia Cadena

Sylvia Cadena is the Chief Development Officer for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) focusing on internationalization, accessibility, privacy, and security for the web. Over the past 30 years, Sylvia has focused on using the Internet for development, with an emphasis on capacity building. Starting as a UN Volunteer in 1993, she has held technical and advisory roles in various organizations, working on information systems, access provision, and innovation. Sylvia joined APNIC in 2008, managing the ISIF Asia fund. She became Head of Programs at the APNIC Foundation in 2016, overseeing Internet development projects across the region, and served as Acting CEO in 2023. Sylvia has served on numerous committees, including the UN's Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group for Internet Governance, and other global Internet governance bodies.

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2018 ISIF Asia Grants and Awards now open

By Sylvia Cadena on 26 Feb 2018

Celebrating 10 years of operation, the 2018 ISIF Asia Grants and Awards are open now.

Apply now for 2017 ISIF Asia Grants and Award

By Sylvia Cadena on 20 Jun 2017

The ISIF Asia grants program is a great opportunity to secure funding for innovative Internet projects solving local and regional issues.

ISIF Award 2016 winners announced

By Sylvia Cadena on 19 Oct 2016

Two exceptional projects using Internet technologies have been awarded the 2016 ISIF Asia awards.

ISIF Asia grant recipients for 2016 announced

By Sylvia Cadena on 31 Aug 2016

This year ISIF Asia will award its largest ever grants pool, across four categories, to support research, development and adoption of Internet technologies for the benefit of the Asia Pacific.

Award builds awareness of Niue’s achievement to provide free Internet

By Sylvia Cadena on 25 Aug 2016

Previous ISIF Asia Awards winner, Internet Niue, offers advice to those nominating for this year’s awards.

ISIF Asia Awards 2016 Open for Nominations

By Sylvia Cadena on 1 Aug 2016

The ISIF Asia Awards acknowledge the important contributions Internet technology innovators have made to the Asia Pacific region through creative solutions.

Surveying the state of IPv6 deployment in Australia and China

By Sylvia Cadena on 31 Mar 2016

First recipient of the 2015 APNIC Internet Operations Research Grants to focus on IPv6 transition.

ISIF Asia, 2015 in review

By Sylvia Cadena on 22 Dec 2015

2015 has been another busy year for the ISIF Asia program, which has supported a number of awards, grants and capacity-building activities.

FSM telecom helps prepare to weather the storm

By Sylvia Cadena on 22 Sep 2015

On a recent trip to FSM I met with network operators from FSM Telecommunications, who have been busy repairing networks damaged by Super Typhoon Maysak.

ISIF Asia Internet Operations Research Grants

By Sylvia Cadena on 9 Sep 2015

APNIC has established the ISIF Asia Internet Operations Research Grants: a 60,000 AUD fund to support independent research on Internet operations, infrastructure and related protocols.