Support
The Digital Himalaya Project has received financial and institutional support from the following organisations and individuals:
The Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) Program, US Department of Education
Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, Cornell University
East Asia Program, Cornell University
Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University with supplemental support through the Freeman Foundation Undergraduate Initiative
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
The Oxford Bön Project
The British Academy Small Research Grant
Anthropologists' Fund for Urgent Anthropological Research at the Royal Anthropological Institute
Frederick Williamson Memorial Fund
The Crowther Beynon Fund, University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
The Renaissance Trust
The Brendish Family Foundation
The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow
The Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
SIT Study Abroad
Rashmi and Sanjay Shrestha
Andrew Clark and Mary CobbJohn R. Sanderson
Christina Monson
Dr. Mary Shepherd Slusser
Many thanks to Daniel Ho (Wei-Han), Hannah Arem, Ikea Hamilton and Thomas (Tom) Riker, Bronwen Bledsoe and Lisa LeFever at Cornell University; and Mark Premo-Hopkins, Joshua McDonough and Kurtis Schaeffer at the University of Alabama for helping with photocopying, scanning and compressing files for web delivery. At the University of Cambridge, thanks to Alastair Downie and Jennifer Pollard for so generously donating laptops to the project team in Nepal, and to Glenn Jobson for helping with installation and software issues.
Many thanks to Walter Stanish for providing HTML pages of the journal Kailash using OCR (optical character recognition).
In Nepal, we are particularly grateful to Deepak Thami, Komintal Thami and Shanti Thami for their many hours of work scanning, digitising and compressing PDF files; and to Vibhu Mishra for his technical assistance and designer's eye.
We are delighted to announce that the Kosciuszko Trust and The Himalayan Bank have become trustees of the Digital Himalaya Project from February 2008. We are particularly grateful to Stefan Kosciuszko and to Ashoke SJB Rana for their pledge of ongoing support.