The SIRCA Program establishes and brings together the endeavors of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada) and the Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC, Singapore) to identify future research leaders, particularly emerging researchers who are relatively new to ICTD/Information Society research and to facilitate their development through the support of research grants.
These researchers would benefit from concerted capacity building exercises including a mentorship arrangement where it creates opportunities for mentorship between established researchers and grant recipients. This grant focuses on social science research, in particular, the relationships between ICTs and information society.
Assistant Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre and Assistant Professor from NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Dr Arul Chib was being featured as one of the leading scientists in his field with a specialisation in mobile phone healthcare in the Singapore newspaper –Today. For more reading, please click here.
The Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity Alliance (SIRCA II) has received the support from IDRC. The call for proposal is now launched! If you are interested and eligible for the grant, please log on to SIRCA II for more information.
The Strengthening ICTD Research Capacity in Asia (SIRCA I) is coming to and end in December 2011. The Secretariat hopes PIs of this program will continue to grow and continue to connect to us!
Congratulations to Phal Des for his promotion to Vice-rector!