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Promoting inclusive development in a networked world

The spread of networked technologies, such as mobile phones and the Internet, is transforming developing-country societies at all levels. While these new technologies can foster progress, they can also increase social exclusion and restrict individual rights and freedoms.

The Information and Networks (I&N) program explores the positive and negative impacts of widespread access to mobile telephones and the Internet in developing countries. I&N works to promote positive social and economic change, particularly in the areas of creative industries, governance, learning, and science.

Latest Project

Open Innovation in Latin American Scholarly Communication

Latin American scholars are putting a higher proportion of their scholarship online, free of charge and free of most copyright restrictions, than scholars from any other part of the world. By one meas

News

Mongolian honour for Maria Ng

21/02/2012

Maria Ng, IDRC Senior Program Specialist in Information and Networks, received the Mongolian Friendship Medal on October 13, 2011. Through this award, the Mongolian Government recognized her long-standing contribution to the country's information...

Global call for research proposals on the information society

19/09/2011

The Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity Alliance (SIRCA II) is now accepting proposals for research projects on Information Societies and Development. Selected grant recipients will be provided with SGD$24,000 for 18 months to...

Featured Publication

Access to information gains ground in Africa

Access to information is widely recognized as a cornerstone of good governance and an important anti-corruption tool. Almost 100 countries, including 10 in Africa, have national laws or decrees that recognize the public’s right to access information...

Events

ICTD2012: IDRC supports Southern scholars

12/03/2012

IDRC is helping to ensure a wide diversity of voices, particularly from developing countries, at the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2012). Through a peer mentorship program...

Building capacity in ICT policy research

09/12/2011

More than 60 scholars on information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation across the world will gather at the sixth Communication for Policy Research South (CPRsouth6) conference to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 9-10...

Latest Results

Protecting youth's privacy in Latin America

Mexico and Uruguay have adopted a memorandum of agreement to protect youth's privacy and personal data on social networks. The document – the result of IDRC-supported research – has also become a key reference document for many Latin American...

Latest Results

Media piracy rampant in developing countries

In a landmark report, Media piracy in emerging economies, authors and researchers argue that media piracy in emerging economies results from a combination of high prices for media goods, low incomes, and cheap digital technologies. CDs, DVDs...

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