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Research in ActionGender Information and CommunicationWhile the platform economy can create opportunities for women, addressing inequities and biases is crucial to empower them.
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NewsDevelopment Economics Education Environment Food and Agriculture Gender Governance Health Information and Communication Science and Technology Social PolicyCombining forces for a new phase of AI for development: Africa and beyondAs a leading supporter of AI research and innovation in the Global South, IDRC is excited to announce it is combining forces with funders from around the world on a shared vision for AI for Development in Africa and beyond. This funders’ group includes the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID.Date
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StoryDevelopment Health Economics Information and Communication Environment Social PolicyAdvancing Southern solutions for gender equalityIDRC at the Women Deliver 2023 conference
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NewsDevelopment Information and Communication Science and Technology GovernanceSupporting safer digital spaces: full report of online experiences for women and LGBTQ+ peopleAs part of the Centre’s commitment to understanding the experiences of vulnerable populations online, IDRC is proud to highlight the release of the first statistically meaningful survey in the Global South on technology-facilitated gender-based violence.Date
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Research in ActionDevelopment Information and Communication GovernanceA safer digital public sphere: addressing online gender-based violenceResearchers are documenting technology-facilitated gender-based violence and exploring responses in the Global South.
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StoryInformation and Communication Development GenderInternet for allBanning women from the internet is an unfortunate way of dominating them.
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PerspectivesGovernance Information and Communication Development Social Policy EducationA targeted response to the learning crisis: the GPE Knowledge and Innovation ExchangeSignificant progress is needed to improve education quality in developing countries.
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PerspectivesInformation and Communication GovernanceWhy IDRC won’t rush its open data policyNaser Faruqui argues the timing is not yet right for IDRC to pursue a mandatory open data policy.
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Research in ActionScience and Technology Information and CommunicationArtificial intelligence for development
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Research in ActionInformation and CommunicationAfterAccess: Uncovering the gender gapWhat the Global South’s most comprehensive mobile and Internet use database says about gender.
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A first e-library in remote Nepali schools
A first e-library in remote Nepali schools
For 2017 IDRC Research Award Recipient Sujaya Neupane, carrying out fieldwork in Nepal was literally coming home. Neupane spent time in the remote western villages of Thapagaun and Jhimpa — his childhood home — to find ways of improving science education by using digital learning tools.
The quality of education is vastly different in Nepal’s rural and urban areas, he explains, leading to poor educational outcomes in rural schools. But with the advent of inexpensive technology and free multimedia resources, science teaching materials can be accessed at low cost, he says. His goal was to determine how sustainable digital libraries could be set up in rural schools.
“One can’t hope to educate young people today without computers,” says Neupane. “I used a Raspberry-pi computer board as a server with embedded open-source learning tools, including those provided by Khan Academy and Wikipedia. Tablets were used to access these materials wirelessly from the server,” he explains. The Raspberry Pi is a low-cost credit card-sized single board computer designed specifically to promote education.
A team of teachers-cum-researchers in two secondary schools worked with Neupane to establish a protocol for using the digital learning materials.
Establishing an e-library in Jhimpa has opened up sources of knowledge to students who never had access to a library before, says Neupane. He and the on-site research team are now exploring how to evaluate the impact on students’ learning when the project ends in mid-2018.
Of his IDRC experience, Neupane says “being able to go back and live in my village and conduct research in schools there jointly with the teachers was the most memorable,” says Neupane. “Through this experience I am determined to work to develop an education system in rural Nepal as a volunteer and independent researcher.”
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Relationships drive collaboration in South Asia
Relationships drive collaboration in South Asia
Natalia YangResearch Awards2017What motivates researchers and funders to collaborate with different partners? “Although collaborations in research have been around for a while, there’s still a lack of understanding about what drives researchers to collaborate,” says Natalia Yang, 2017 IDRC Research Award Recipient.
She set out to discover those motivations among think tanks in South Asia. This region “provides a unique context because most countries within the region share similar challenges,” she says.
Yang found that the drive to collaborate depended on the role partners played in the organization. For example, researchers focused on what they were able to offer and gain from the collaboration — enhanced skills and access to new knowledge, for example, and stronger networks.
Principal investigators, coordinators, and funders were more concerned with how the collaboration contributed to obtaining and sharing knowledge, such as building a regional or international dialogue. Funders also saw collaboration as a way to attract other funders to a cause they believed in.
Overall, she says, she learned that “behind any research there is a human element that needs to be recognized and supported. Understanding collaboration in research is also about revealing the relationships at work behind anything we do.”
Yang values the experience she gained in research, including learning that “it’s better not to overthink the steps I have to do as a researcher. Often, the best thing to do is to just act and have the flexibility to adjust and adapt to new circumstances and research issues that did not come to light before.”
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Research in ActionGovernance Information and CommunicationImproving the governance of cyberspace in the Global South
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PerspectivesInformation and Communication Development Evaluation GenderOECD’s Development Co-Operation Report highlights critical role of data to achieve development objectives
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Research in ActionInformation and Communication GenderMobile phones, Internet, and gender in Myanmar
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StoryScience and Technology Information and Communication Development GenderFostering an Internet for women’s empowerment
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Research in ActionScience and Technology Information and Communication GenderData to change the world
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StoryInformation and Communication Governance Development Gender Social PolicyProtecting digital rights in Pakistan
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Research in ActionInformation and Communication GenderPlugging into the transformative impact of ICTsFor an elderly man in West Africa, it is the comfort of hearing his wife’s voice on his long journey to receive cancer treatment. For villagers in Peru, it is an emergency lifeline following a devastating earthquake.
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Research in ActionInformation and Communication Science and TechnologyInfluencing pro-poor telecommunication policies in AsiaDate
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Research in ActionInformation and Communication GovernanceDigital privacy in Asia: Setting the agendaIDRC-supported research has shown that, as more and more people go online in Asia, digital privacy is increasingly seen as an important political and consumer right. A survey of Asian countries revealed widespread concern among citizens about protecting their personal data and Internet privacy. The report, A New Dawn: Privacy in Asia, summarizes the findings of the research.Date
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Research in ActionSocial Policy Health Information and CommunicationMentoring approach improves evaluation capacity of ICTD researchers in AsiaAn innovative IDRC initiative is improving evaluation capacities of researchers studying Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD). Developing Evaluation Capacity in ICTD (DECI) provides researchers from five IDRC-funded projects in Asia ongoing mentorship to learn and apply the Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) approach to their projects. DECI demonstrates the value of mentoring as a training approach, where researchers are coached as they make ready to use the approach.Date
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Research in ActionInformation and CommunicationUsing technology to deliver quality education in AsiaAn IDRC-funded project in Asia found that distance education can be as effective as traditional face-to-face education in delivering quality teaching and a good learning experience. This finding is particularly significant for remote and resource-poor regions in countries such as Mongolia and Cambodia. The project underscored the importance of choosing appropriate technologies and mediums of distance education based on learner needs, capacities, and the socio-economic context.Date