Linking Research to Practice : Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia /
Linking Research to Practice : Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia /
ed. by Arul Chib, Roger W. Harris.
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- Preface -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SECTION I: MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES: INSIDERS’ THOUGHTS ON THE PROGRAMME -- 1. Perspectives on ICTD Research and Practice -- 2. SIRCA: An Opportunity to Build and Improve the Field of ICT4D -- 3. Managing the SIRCA Programme -- 4. Primary Investigator and Mentor Perspectives of SIRCA -- SECTION II: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS BY EXPERTS -- 5. ICTD Praxis: Bridging Theory and Practice -- 6. Messy Methods for ICT4D Research -- 7. Ethics and ICTD Research -- 8. ICTD Curriculum Development and Professional Training: Mainstreaming SIRCA Research Models -- 9. Multi-stakeholder Perspectives Influencing Policy-Research-Practice -- 10. From Production… To Dissemination… To Adoption -- SECTION III: RESEARCH OUTPUTS -- 11. It’s the Talk, Not the Tech: What Governments Should Know about Blogging and Social Media -- 12. Integrating Digital and Human Data Sources for Environmental Planning and Climate Change Adaptation: From Research to Practice in Central Vietnam -- 13. The Challenge of Working Across Contexts and Domains: Mobile Health Education in Rural Cambodia -- 14. The Dynamics and Challenges of Academic Internet Use Amongst Cambodian University Students; -- SECTION IV: SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSION -- 15. Finding a Path to Influencing Policy -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve healthcare, allow open government, and solve environmental issues. To realize this potential and influence policy-making and programme design, the Singapore Internet Research Centre, supported by the IDRC, created an innovative research capacity-building programme, SIRCA. The programme supports interdisciplinary ICTD research through the nurturing of research relationships. By bringing together experienced mentors with deserving early-career Asian researchers in an intellectually stimulating environment, SIRCA has fostered a cohort of talent capable of generating the rigorous scientific evidence needed. Their stories, and reflections upon the programme, are told here. If ever it needed demonstrating that ICTs are an indispensible tool for developing an information society rather than a reward for achieving it, then the SIRCA programme has achieved that.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789814380003 9789814380010
10.1355/9789814380010 doi
2012330101
Economic development--Study and teaching--Asia.
Information technology--Asia.
Information technology--Asia.
Telecommunication--Asia.
Telecommunication--Asia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness.
HD77.5.A78 / L56 2012 HD77.5.A78 / L56 2012eb
341.7
Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- Preface -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SECTION I: MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES: INSIDERS’ THOUGHTS ON THE PROGRAMME -- 1. Perspectives on ICTD Research and Practice -- 2. SIRCA: An Opportunity to Build and Improve the Field of ICT4D -- 3. Managing the SIRCA Programme -- 4. Primary Investigator and Mentor Perspectives of SIRCA -- SECTION II: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS BY EXPERTS -- 5. ICTD Praxis: Bridging Theory and Practice -- 6. Messy Methods for ICT4D Research -- 7. Ethics and ICTD Research -- 8. ICTD Curriculum Development and Professional Training: Mainstreaming SIRCA Research Models -- 9. Multi-stakeholder Perspectives Influencing Policy-Research-Practice -- 10. From Production… To Dissemination… To Adoption -- SECTION III: RESEARCH OUTPUTS -- 11. It’s the Talk, Not the Tech: What Governments Should Know about Blogging and Social Media -- 12. Integrating Digital and Human Data Sources for Environmental Planning and Climate Change Adaptation: From Research to Practice in Central Vietnam -- 13. The Challenge of Working Across Contexts and Domains: Mobile Health Education in Rural Cambodia -- 14. The Dynamics and Challenges of Academic Internet Use Amongst Cambodian University Students; -- SECTION IV: SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSION -- 15. Finding a Path to Influencing Policy -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve healthcare, allow open government, and solve environmental issues. To realize this potential and influence policy-making and programme design, the Singapore Internet Research Centre, supported by the IDRC, created an innovative research capacity-building programme, SIRCA. The programme supports interdisciplinary ICTD research through the nurturing of research relationships. By bringing together experienced mentors with deserving early-career Asian researchers in an intellectually stimulating environment, SIRCA has fostered a cohort of talent capable of generating the rigorous scientific evidence needed. Their stories, and reflections upon the programme, are told here. If ever it needed demonstrating that ICTs are an indispensible tool for developing an information society rather than a reward for achieving it, then the SIRCA programme has achieved that.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789814380003 9789814380010
10.1355/9789814380010 doi
2012330101
Economic development--Study and teaching--Asia.
Information technology--Asia.
Information technology--Asia.
Telecommunication--Asia.
Telecommunication--Asia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness.
HD77.5.A78 / L56 2012 HD77.5.A78 / L56 2012eb
341.7