Linking Research to Practice
Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia
Published on 30. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-981-4380-00-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 Center, supported by the IDRC, created an innovative research capacity-building programme, SIRCA.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pasir Panjang
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4380-00-3 (9789814380003)
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Arul Chib is an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and is the assistant director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre.
Roger W. Harris is founder of Roger Harris Associates (RHA), a consulting and social entrepreneurial firm whose mission is to alleviate poverty by facilitating access to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for underserved sections of society in Asia, and to ensure they are able to make good use of the technology according to their own development aspirations.
Roger W. Harris is founder of Roger Harris Associates (RHA), a consulting and social entrepreneurial firm whose mission is to alleviate poverty by facilitating access to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for underserved sections of society in Asia, and to ensure they are able to make good use of the technology according to their own development aspirations.