In this Book
- Linking Research to Practice: Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
summary
Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve healthcare, allow open government, and solve environmental issues. To realize 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 indispensible tool for developing an information society rather than a reward for achieving it, then the SIRCA programme has achieved that.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vii
- List of Tables
- p. viii
- List of Figures
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xix-xx
- Section I: Management Perspectives: Insiders’ Thoughts on the Programme
- 3. Managing the SIRCA Programme
- pp. 25-38
- Section II: Research Perspectives: Theoretical Reflections by Experts
- 6. Messy Methods for ICT4D Research
- pp. 58-67
- 7. Ethics and ICTD Research
- pp. 68-81
- Section III: Research Outputs
- Section IV: Synthesis and Conclusion
- 15. Finding a Path to Influencing Policy
- pp. 175-186
- About the Contributors
- pp. 187-192
Additional Information
ISBN
9789814380010
Related ISBN(s)
9789814380003
MARC Record
OCLC
835776839
Pages
196
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No