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Click here to see the grants awarded in April 2004

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 51 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 April 23-26 in Manila, Philippines, 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 May 2004. Seven proposals were selected in this round of competition. The proposal themes varied from Forest fire forecasting system, promotion of ICT intiaitives in rural areas ,Open source localization kit and Tele Medicine. 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 September 2004. Please kindly revisit this website in July and August for future updates on the ICT R&D Grants Programme for Asia Pacific.

2004-06-10

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