Eligibility

You may apply for research funding as the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project, only if you are:

• an emerging scholar in the Information & Communication Technology for Development field of no more than 45 years old; if you are a PhD holder, then you are only eligible if you have no more than seven years of post-graduate teaching/research experience;
• affiliated with an academic, government, research or civil society institution, consortium or institution based in Africa, Latin America and Asia; funds will be disbursed to your organization of employment and not directly to you; and
• to remain in the country or region of research throughout the grant period/research project;

NB: The PI is accountable for the project and is expected to be involved actively in it.