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Linking Research to Practice, Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia, Edited by Arul Chib, Roger W. Harris

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Linking Research to Practice, Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia, Edited by Arul Chib, Roger W. Harris

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eng

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index present

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non fiction

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Linking Research to Practice

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electronic resource

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dictionaries

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899149237

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Edited by Arul Chib, Roger W. Harris

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia

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 indispensable tool for developing an information society rather than a reward for achieving it, then the SIRCA programme has achieved that.--, Provided by publisher

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