Further, during my many years as a professional consultant and contract researcher one of the things I learned to watch out for was CfP's that were clearly outriders of some sort... Anomalous in the context of the source, either too large or too small budgets and so on... What these CfP's were often about was the source of the proposal call looking for some free consulting advice/research ideas and so on.
What they would do would be to send the CfP around as broadly as they could and then wait to harvest all the free consulting ideas/research IP that came flooding through the mail box from the poor shnooks who were responding in good faith. Far be it from me to suggest that an august corp. like MS would do anything of this kind, but a "research" fund of $1.2 million on Digital Inclusion with a closing date of January 13 seems just a wee bit peculiar to me.... So how does one protect Intellectual Property in a proposal? MG -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan Sent: November 14, 2005 2:46 AM To: Digital Divide Subject: [DDN] Digital Inclusion Funding Microsoft Research Announces New Digital Inclusion Funding Opportunity Deadline: January 13, 2006 As part of its commitment to the academic research community, Microsoft Research ( http://www.research.microsoft.com/ ) has announced a $1.2 million Digital Inclusion funding opportunity designed to empower academic researchers world- wide to tackle technological challenges in a way that positively affects health, education, and socioeconomic conditions. Through a Request for Proposal process, Microsoft Research is encouraging academic research that explores how technologies such as mobile devices, cellular phones, and networking can unlock the potential of people everywhere by making computing affordable, accessible, and relevant. [posted on RFP Bulletin (November 11, 2005)] Siobhan Champ-Blackwell Community Outreach Liaison NN/LM-MCR Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 402.280.4156/800.338.7657 option#1,#2, then #1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nnlm.gov/mcr http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ <http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/> http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell <http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell> _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
