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NewsDevelopment Environment Food and Agriculture Gender Governance Science and Technology Social PolicySeventeen research projects that will build resilience and reduce vulnerability to risks from climate change in the Global South have now been launched under the Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) partnership between the United Kingdom (UK) and IDRC.Date
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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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PerspectivesDevelopment Science and Technology Social PolicyIs a better future on the horizon? The art and science of foresightStrategic foresight is gaining currency in international development. What does using it mean for a new adopter and research funder like IDRC?
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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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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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StoryScience and Technology Development Social Policy HealthScaling ScienceA new model for optimizing the impact of research and innovation
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Information and communication have always opened opportunities for the poor to earn income, reduce isolation, and respond resiliently to emergencies.
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