Call for Proposals: ICTs Research and Development

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

Call for Proposals: Information and Communication Technologies 
Research and Development

Julian Ng

January 2, 2003   

The Pan Asia Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) 
Research and Development (R&D) Grants Program promotes an R&D 
environment for Internet-based applications, systems, and policy 
research in the Asia-Pacific region. The program is pleased to 
announce the January 2003 competition round for R&D grant 
applications. This is a special competition round of the program in 
which proposals addressing the themes of the World Summit on the 
Information Society (WSIS) are being actively sought. These themes, 
which are explained in more detail on the WSIS website 
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/wsis-themes/index.html , are as follows:

* Access to ICTs for all
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/wsis-themes/Access/index.html

* ICTs as a Tool for Economic and Social Development — Meeting the 
Millennium Development Goals 
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/wsis-themes/UNMDG/index.html

Interested organizations from the Asia Pacific region may now apply 
for a grant under this program by following the instructions at the 
Pan Asia ICT R&D Grants Program Web site 
http://network.idrc.ca/ev.php?URL_ID=9609&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=
201&reload=1041532637 . The deadline for submission of proposals in 
this competition round is by February 15 2003.

The Pan Asia ICT R&D Grants Program is a joint effort of the 
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Asia Pacific 
Development Information Programme (APDIP), an initiative of the 
United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Asia Pacific 
Network Information Centre (APNIC). The program is managed by AMIC 
(Asian Media Information and Communication Centre). 


source: 
http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=1110