Linking Research to Practice

Strengthening Ict for Development Research Capacity in Asia
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-981-4380-00-3
Verlag: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve healthcare, allow open government, and solve environmental issues. To realise this potential and influence policy-making and programme design, the Singapore Internet Research Centre, supported by the IDRC, created an innovative research capacity-building programme, SIRCA. The programme supports interdisciplinary ICTD research through the nurturing of research relationships. By bringing together experienced mentors with deserving early-career Asian researchers in an intellectually stimulating environment, SIRCA has fostered a cohort of talent capable of generating the rigorous scientific evidence needed. Their stories, and reflections upon the programme, are told here. If ever it needed demonstrating that ICTs are an indispensable tool for developing an information society rather than a reward for achieving it, then the SIRCA programme has achieved that.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chib, Arul

Harris, Roger W.

Über Autor(innen)

Arul Chib is an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and is the assistant director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre.

Roger W. Harris is founder of Roger Harris Associates (RHA), a consulting and social entrepreneurial firm whose mission is to alleviate poverty by facilitating access to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for underserved sections of society in Asia, and to ensure they are able to make good use of the technology according to their own development aspirations.