Canada

Call for researchers: policy frameworks for digital platforms

A 14-month period research project, ‘Policy Frameworks for digital platforms-Moving from openness to inclusion’ supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada will begin on October 2017. IT for Change aims to collaborate with researchers and scholars from seven sites: three in Asia, two in Africa, two in South America, and three in Europe and North America. Research outputs could vary depending on research themes and methodologies. However, the teams

Call for Proposals: Scaling Up Food Security and Nutrition Innovations

The call for proposals on Scaling up Food Security and Nutrition Innovations by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada is open until March 27, 2015.  With a strong focus on taking effective, pilot-tested innovations to a wider scale of use and application, this call will fund research-for-development projects submitted by strong partnerships between research, development, private sector and other business-oriented organizations from Canada and from