Principal Investigators’ Achievements

Balwant Singh Mehta (India), was selected to be part of the Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program to Assess the Impact of Public Access to ICT (2010-11).

Komathi Ale (Singapore) was awarded a PhD scholarship from Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California, USA, in August 2011.

Mahfuz Ashraf (Bangladesh) was awarded the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair in ICT for Development (ICT4D) Scholarship to attend the ICTD2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development in Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, from 13-16 December, 2010.

Grace Mirandilla Santos (Philippines), was featured for her study on the impact of slow and expensive Internet. Full article can be found here.

Peou Chivoin (Cambodia) was awarded a PhD scholarship from the University of Melbourne in Australia in July 2010.

Phal Des (Cambodia) won the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEJ Japan-Cambodia Joint Symposium on Information Systems and Communication Technology 2011 (JCAICT 2011) in January 2011, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He was also promoted from Director of the IT Center to Vice-Rector at the Royal University of Phnom Penh.

Rajiv Aricat George (India) won a top-three paper award at the Inaugural Honors Symposium for Asian Students in Communication Research held in City University of Hong Kong in November 2010.

Regina Hechanova (Philippines) was awarded The Outstanding Women in Nation’s Service (2010), Philippines. Her book For the People, With the People: Developing Social Enterprises in the Philippines also won the Cardinal Sin Book Awards in the Philippines.

Sirajul Islam (Bangladesh) was invited to participate as the Chair of the paper session, and a Moderator of the panel session on ―Mobile for Development‖, Post-Graduate strand at ICTD 2010, co-hosted by IPID (International Network for Post-Graduate Students in the Area of ICT4D), on December 13, 2010, at Royal Holloway, London. He was also a Reviewer of the papers presented at this event. Siraj was also invited as a Reviewer to comment on papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Mobile for Development, in Kampala, Uganda, from 10-11 November 2010, and at the Knowledge Management Track, 44th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), USA. In addition to this, he was a Reviewer for the Journal of Information Technology for Development (ITD), Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, UK – a high ranking journal in the discipline of ICT4D, and for the International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA), Denmark (IGI-Global).

Pham Huu Ty (Vietnam) was awarded the Nuffic Scholarship for PhD at Utrecht University, Netherlands in May 2010. His PhD thesis is on development induced displacement and land grabbing in Vietnam. His project opened up a new future research trajectory for him, as he now bids for a centre on climate change research at his university.