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Delivery of Amy Mahan scholarships to assess the impact of Public Access to ICT

The Research Fellowship Program Amy Mahan to assess the impact of Public Access to ICT is a project lasting eighteen months sponsored by the International Centre for Development Research (IDRC) and administered by the University Pompeu Fabra, in collaboration with academics from the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires (Argentina), the University of the Philippines in Manila and the LINK Centre at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, coordinated by Prof. Francisco Proenza and David Sancho of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the UPF.

15 march 2010

The Program has received 66 applications, of which 12 proposals were selected as potential winners. The scholarships, endowed with 22,000 Euros each, will provide specialized technical services to the research teams selected to carry out an investigation capable of responding to priority questions of the impact of the public access to ICTs.

The Scholarship Program strengthens the research capacity of the Global Impact Study. It took its name in honour of Amy Mahan, distinguished promoter of the Working Group of the Global Impact Research Study until his death on 5 March 2009.

The program’s objectives are mainly to deepen and strengthen the capacity of junior researchers in developing countries to promote rigorous studies on public access to ICTs, as well as stimulate the commitment to this issue of qualified academics in developing countries.

In this edition the main researchers from the fellowship Amy Mahan conducing t research on the impact of public access to ICT in their respective countries have been Nikos Dacanay (Thailand), Jorge Bossio (Peru), Wei Shang (China), Nor Aziah Alias (Malaysia), Sebastian Benítez (Argentina), Alejandra Phillippi (Chile), Ingrid Bachmann (Chile and Colombia), Balwant Singh Mehta (India), Simon Yalams (Jamaica), Sylvie Siyam (Cameroon), Ghaleb Rabab'ah (Jordan) and Jean Damascene (Rwanda).

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