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  • Research in Action
    SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Information and Communication

    Artificial intelligence for development

    IDRC-supported research is ensuring that the benefits of AI are used to advance development, reduce social inequality, and foster greater gender parity.
    Published date
    Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 13:30
  • Research in Action
    GOVERNANCE PRIVACY PROTECTION INTERNET SECURITY SOCIAL POLICY

    Improving the governance of cyberspace in the Global South

    Digital tools are improving people’s ability to innovate, organize, document, and share online, but they also enable broad surveillance, tracking, censorship and, in some cases, repression.
    Published date
    Friday, April 13, 2018 - 13:30
  • Research in Action
    MAPPING WOMEN Gender

    Mapping sexual harassment in Egypt

    More than 95 per cent of women in Egypt have experienced sexual harassment at least once, but many citizens there turn a blind eye when it happens. The HarassMap project is aiming to change that attitude at home and abroad, empowering women and changing the attitudes of men in the process.
    Published date
    Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 17:00
  • Research in Action
    Climate change

    Drones on the delta

    In Ghana's Volta River delta, the remotely-operated aerial vehicles are going where researchers can't to help study coastal erosion, flooding and migration.
    Published date
    Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 15:00
  • Research in Action
    ACCESS TO INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND NETWORKING

    Defusing the rumour mill, digitally

    The text-messaging technology that’s helping quash misinformation and save lives in Kenya.
    Published date
    Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 09:00