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Click here to see grants awarded in October 2003 Competition

The Committee on the ICT R&D Grants Programme, which is jointly sponsored by IDRC, APDIP and APNIC, and managed by AMIC, has completed the screening and evaluation of 56 proposals from 15 countries in the Asia-Pacific.

The proposals covered a wide array of topics, sectors, and issues, including ICTs for information access, rural governance, policy, bio-diversity, media, information societies, waste management, health and education for women, intellectual property rights, computer processing of local languages, knowledge management, e-readiness, e-learning, e-government, e-governance, e-commerce, rural connectivity, capacity building, networking, and website development.

The proposed projects target the rural poor, women, youth, children, information access problems , entrepreneurs, SMEs, researchers, and policy-makers

In the meeting, held on October 10-12 2003 in Chennai, India, the Committee reviewed and discussed the submitted proposals thoroughly. The Committee was impressed by the quality and diversity of the proposals, for which applicants have put a great deal of effort into planning, development, and drafting.

All of the proponents were informed of the results via email by 2nd week of November 2003. Nine proposals were selected in this round of competition. The proposal themes varied from child injury surveillance system, intergration of ict intiatives,economic empowerment of women to robust network and local governance. Kindly refer to Grants Awarded column for more details

We thank you all for your interest in this programme. The next competition round is likely to be in March 2004. Please kindly revisit this website in January for future updates on the ICT R&D Grants Programme for Asia Pacific.

2003-12-01

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