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A Committee under the UN General Assembly has endorsed a resolution that emphasizes the importance of the use of ICT for development.

Among other things, the resolution requests the UN Secretary-General to report on the status of development as a follow up to the proposals in the World Summit on the Information Society. See http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/12/14/un-ict-development-resolution for the news report and http://news.dot-nxt.com/sites/news.dot-nxt.com/files/member/A:C2:66:L80.pdf for the resolution.

 

Position Announcement

The College of Communication Arts and Sciences and the College of Agricultural and Natural Resources at Michigan State University invite applications for a tenure-stream faculty position. Click here to read more.

 

SIRCA II Grant Review Results

15 research projects were selected. For more information please click here..

 

Call for Abstracts (CPRafrica 2012/CPRsouth7)

Connecting Africa & Asia: ICT Policy research and practice for the Global South. For more details, please visit: www.researchICTafrica.net

 

[CLOSED] Call for Proposals : SIRCA II

[CLOSED] Call for Proposals: The Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity in Asia (SIRCA II) is an ICTD and information society research capacity building project aimed at young and emerging researchers in the Global South.

 

Call for papers: Third eBario Knowledge Fair 2011

The e-Bario Knowledge Fair (eBKF) is a bi-annual conference, held in the village of Bario, Malaysia, which showcases the use of ICTs for rural development. For more information, click here: http://ebarioknowledgefair.org/

 

Call for papers: International Conference on Diversity and Plurality in Media

International Conference on Diversity and Plurality in Media: Reflections of Society December 26-27, 2011 in Bhopal, India For more information please click HERE.

 

[CLOSED] Vacancy for Research Associate/Project Officer at SiRC

Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC), Nanyang Technological University Aim: Strengthening ICTD Research Capacity in Asia program (SIRCA) establishes and brings together the endeavours of IDRC PAN and SiRC. It is designed to ensure that that capacities to conduct research in the area of Information and Communications Technology and/for Development (ICT4D or ICTD) are built in [...]

 
Asst. Prof. Arul Chib, Assistant Director of SIRCA, wins prestigious ProSPER.Net-Scopus 2011 award

Asst. Prof. Arul Chib, Assistant Director of SIRCA, wins prestigious ProSPER.Net-Scopus 2011 award

Asst. Prof. Arul Chib, Assistant Director of SIRCA, was recently awarded the Prosper.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development for 2011.   The Prosper.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development is given annually to young scientists or researchers, based in the Asia-Pacific region, who have made significant contributions in the area of Sustainable Development. The [...]

 

Call for Open Sessions, ICTD2012

The Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2012) is taking place at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, from 12th to 16th March 2012.   We invite you to propose an Open Session at ICTD2012! Accompanying the full papers program on the 13th and 14th March are two further days of [...]