Announcements

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

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, 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 [...]

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 [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA USA Conference dates: March 12-16, 2012 Paper submission deadline: July 22, 2011 (11:59pm UTC) Conference website: http://www.ictd2012.org Contact us at: program@ictd2012.org Twitter: @ICTD2012   Facebook: ICTD 2012 Atlanta ICTD provides an international forum for scholarly researchers [...]

The University of Manchester’s one-year MSc ICTs for Development degree aims to create “ICT4D champions” who combine technical competencies in information systems and project management with an understanding of development context and practice: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/06237/?code=06237&pg=2 The 2011 Development Leaders Bursary – worth £6,150 – is available for developing country applicants to the MSc ICT4D programme, with [...]

Date: 16-17 April 2011 Venue: Millennium Resort Patong Phuket, Thailand About the Conference Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have had a profound impact on the socio-economic, political and cultural spheres of nations. The result is that there is growing interest to incorporate ICTs to achieve key development goals in the domains of health, education, livelihoods, [...]

Social Media for Development http://sites.google.com/site/sm4dev Recent projects and studies suggest there is interesting and diverse work emerging at the intersection of ICT4D–the application of information and communication technologies to socio-economic development–and social media. One trend both fields share is the rise of mobile: While ICT4D has been devoting increasing attention to mobile technologies due to [...]

University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa has been nominated by United Nations (UN) Academic Impact for the next two years as one of ten global hubs to help take forward the governing principle on ‘Addressing Poverty’ and Youth. As a part of this, the School of Development Studies at UKZN and the UN are conducting [...]

Seamlessly Mobile?: Mobile Communication @ a Crossroads – 24-25 May, 2011, Boston MA, USA. For more information, click here.