LIRNEasia » ICT4D http://lirneasia.net a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:38:15 +0000 en hourly 1 LIRNEasia engages in act of “social corporate responsibility”! http://lirneasia.net/2008/10/lirneasia-engages-in-act-of-social-corporate-responsibility/ http://lirneasia.net/2008/10/lirneasia-engages-in-act-of-social-corporate-responsibility/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:18:47 +0000 Nirmali Sivapragasam http://lirneasia.net/?p=2558 Large corporations engage in acts of Corporate Social Responsibility.  Non-profit organizations like ours sometimes engage in acts of Social Corporate Responsibility.   SCR differs from CSR because the beneficiary here is a corporation.  We recognize that large corporations can affect the course of events in countries and in some cases, the world.   Therefore, when a large corporation with massive resources asked us to help educate their senior managers (especially those in charge of CSR) about key issues in telecom, we agreed. 

Here are four one-pager briefs that were prepared for this purpose:  the topics were Underserved areas; access and backbone networks, spectrum and  ICT4D in South Asia (excluding India).

]]> http://lirneasia.net/2008/10/lirneasia-engages-in-act-of-social-corporate-responsibility/feed/ 0 NTU, Singapore calls for ICT4D grant proposals http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/call-for-ict4d-grant-proposals/ http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/call-for-ict4d-grant-proposals/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:50:52 +0000 Chanuka Wattegama http://lirneasia.net/?p=2045 The Strengthening ICT4D Research Capacity in Asia (SIRCA) Programme of NTU Singapore has announced a call for grant proposals.

The SIRCA Programme seeks to identify future research leaders and to facilitate their development through the support of research grants. The awards are intended to ensure capacities to conduct research in the area of Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D or ICTD) are built in Asia. This applies particularly to emerging researchers based in Asia who are relatively new to ICTD research and interested in undertaking theoretically-based and methodologically rigorous research. Additionally, these applicants would benefit from concerted capacity building exercises including a mentorship arrangement. In particular, the program promotes broad-based high-quality multidisciplinary research in ICT development, e-services, new media use and social impact, and policy for the benefit and advancement of individuals, organizations, nation and society.

Visit the following web page for additional information about the programme and the call for proposals: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/sirca

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