SIRCA

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

Administrator — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:39:50 +0000

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

Administrator — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:57:35 +0000

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

Administrator — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:59:36 +0000

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

Call for Abstracts (CPRafrica 2012/CPRsouth7)

Administrator — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:14:22 +0000

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

Congratulations to Arul!

Administrator — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:19:36 +0000

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.

[CLOSED] Call for Proposals : SIRCA II

Administrator — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:46:24 +0000

[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

Administrator — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:16:23 +0000

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/

Update on SIRCA II

Administrator — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:03:58 +0000

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.

SIRCA I coming to an end

blogger — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:53:46 +0000

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!

Promotion

Administrator — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:09:26 +0000

Congratulations to Phal Des for his promotion to Vice-rector!