The Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity Alliance, SIRCA II, will accept proposals for research projects on Information Societies and Information & Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) carried out in the Global South.

The program aims to improve the inter-disciplinary research skills of emerging scholars in open development and entrepreneurship, governance, learning, and science spaces in the Global South. Learning from the experience of building capacity in the Information Society/Information & Communication Technology for Development field in Asia, SIRCA II will include researchers from Africa, Latin America as well as Asia, in order to address the very lack of scholars from developing regions.

The objectives of the program are to:

1. Build scientific and critical research skills and capacity among emerging researchers (PIs) in Africa, Latin America and Asia;
2. Establish network connections between African, Latin American and Asian researchers; and
3. Disseminate findings locally and internationally in order to strengthen the body of methodologically sound, inter-disciplinary and theoretically-based research.

Key Dates
Deadline for registration: October 14, 2011
Deadline for proposal submission: November 1, 2011

For more information, visit: http://sirca2.sirca.org.sg/call-for-proposals/call-for-proposals/