---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tabitha Hart <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 20:37 Subject: Fwd: [IAMCR] [DIRSI] DIRSI's young researcher competition deadline 16 November To: yanokwa at gmail.com
Hi -- thought this might be of interest to the Change group. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DIRSI <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:00 AM Subject: [IAMCR] [DIRSI] DIRSI's young researcher competition deadline 16 November To: newsletter at dirsi.net Click here if you cannot see this message correctly<http://dirsi.net/en/node/506>| - | Click here to unsubscribe from DIRSI news<nonews at dirsi.net?subject=unsubscribe&body=Please%20unsubscribe%20me%20from%20DIRSI%20news> [image: DIRSI - Regional Dialogue on the Information Society] November 3, 2009 Mission DIRSI's mission is to create knowledge and stimulate discussion to support the development of policies that enable the effective participation of Latin America's poor and marginalized communities in emerging information societies and economies. Visit our website at dirsi.net [image: Amy Mahan] Amy Mahan <http://dirsi.net/en/akm> was a founding member of DIRSI. At the time of her death she had made important contributions to the research and program design of a number of ICT for development initiatives. It is with deep gratitude for her scholarship, personal courage and humanity, that we honor her by establishing his fellowship program. The Amy Mahan Young Researcher Fellowships in ICT Inclusion Policies is one of a number of number of initiatives in honour of our friend and colleague. Other initiatives are: Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program to Assess the Impact of Public Access to ICTs <http://www.upf.edu/amymahan/> Global Information Society Watch 2009 dedicated to Amy Mahan<http://www.apc.org/en/node/9278/> LACNIC Outstanding Achievement Award - Posthumous honorary mention<http://lacnic.net/en/anuncios/2009_ConvocatoriaTrayectoria.html> Reminder: Deadline for proposals to DIRSI's young researcher competition is 16 November The Regional Dialogue on the Information Society, known by its Spanish acronym DIRSI, launched its third round of young researcher fellowships on 23 September. The deadline for presenting proposals to the *Amy Mahan Young Researcher Fellowships in ICT Inclusion Policies* is 16 November 2009. Young researchers (born in 1974 or later) living and conducting academic activities in Latin America are invited to submit applications for three fellowships of US$6,000 each to support research within the DIRSIs current themes: *Bandwidth for All*, *Mobile Opportunities 2.0* and *New Indicators on ICT Access and Use*.. Final reports must be completed by 3 May 2010. Research proposals and final reports can be presented in Spanish, English or Portuguese. Full details of the fellowships are only available in Spanish <http://dirsi.net/becas2009>and Portuguese<http://dirsi.net/sites/default/files/Chamada_portuguese.pdf> . For more information visit: http://dirsi.net/en/fellowships2009. What is DIRSI? [image: CEIBAL]Founded in 2006, DIRSI is a network of professionals and academic institutions that seeks to create knowledge to support policymaking that promotes effective participation of poor and marginalized communities of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Information Society. DIRSI's publications include the groundbreaking studies Digital Poverty: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean<http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-112564-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html>and Mobile Opportunities: Poverty and telephony access in Latin America and the Caribbean <http://dirsi.net/en/node/93>. DIRSI is administered by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos ?IEP? Peru's most established social sciences research centre and receives the financial support of the International Development Research Centre ?IDRC? and the Canadian International Development Agency. ** ** ** **** ------------------------------ *****If you do not want to receive further information from DIRSI, send an e-mail to nonews at dirsi.net<nonews at dirsi.net?subject=unsubscribe&body=Please%20unsubscribe%20me%20from%20DIRSI%20news>with the subject "unsuscribe". * ** ------------------------------ ** ** dirsi.net | info at dirsi.net No virus found in this outgoing message. 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