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Forwarded message: > > > Hi all > (apologies for cross posting) > > here comes a Call for Proposal for Apps Grants in Developing Countries by IDS > (Institute of Development Studies, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK). > Please promote where possible and participate if interesting - many thanks > and regards - Martin > > ------------- > Call for Proposals > > The IDS Knowledge Services Open Application Programming Interface (API) > provides easy programmatic access to tens of thousands of thematically > organised resources, primarily academic research, on development issues that > are freely available online. > > IDS Knowledge Services invites your organisation to apply for a small > technical grant. These grants are available to application developers in > developing countries wishing to use information and communication > technologies to repurpose, and contextualise research on development issues > and so inform evidence based policy making. > > Individual grant maximum: GBP £3000 > Implementation period: 5 weeks > Application deadline: 13 February 2012 > > > We are currently offering two types of grant: > > 1) Plug in grants > These grants are allocated to design and build plug-ins/modules/add ons to > existing content management systems and web platforms. The plug-ins will > import or display a user defined selection of data from the KS data sets. > There are two grants currently available, for developing a Wordpress plug-in > and an HTML embeddable "widget". > > > 2)Innovation grants > These grants are allocated to design and build applications or services that > use innovative ways of combining data and information from different sources, > to create new tools, applications and systems which are useful, meaningful > and relevant for informing development policy and practice. > > Preference will be given to proposals that focus on the programme’s key > thematic or technological areas, as follows: > > THEMES > - Climate Change > - Food and Agriculture > - Health > - Governance > - Gender > > TECHNOLOGY > - Mobile > - Mapping > - Applications supporting people in areas of limited connectivity > > Full details can be found in the attached documents, or online > http://api.ids.ac.uk/about/grants.shtml > > http://api.ids.ac.uk > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) | Twitter: ids_api > > -------------------- > > > -- > Martin Kaltenböck, CMC > Managing Partner, CFO > > Semantic Web Company (SWC) > Mariahilfer Strasse 70 / 8 > A - 1070 Vienna, Austria > Tel +43 1 402 12 35 - 25 > Fax +43 1 402 12 35 - 22 > Mobile +43 650 3905697 > > http://www.semantic-web.at > http://blog.semantic-web.at > http://poolparty.biz > > LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data - http://lod2.eu/ > > _______________________________________________ > euopendata mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/euopendata > > >
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