IDPM will be offering 7 International Development Bursaries for students from Developing Countries to study on an IDPM Masters programme commencing September 2010 entry.

The awards cover a 50% waiver of the 2010 overseas tuition fee and are open to applicants who receive an offer for one of the following IDPM programmes:

• MSc in Globalisation and Development
• MA in International Development: Public Policy and Management
• MSc in Industry,Trade and Development
• MSc in ICTs for Development
• MSc in Organisational Change and Development
• MSc in Management and Implementation of Development Projects
• MA in International Development: Politics and Governance

Rohan Samarajiva, PhD, Board memeber of Communication Policy Research south (CPRsouth) reveals a window of opportunity in the ICA newsletter, March 2010, for young scholars to gain more knowledge in research in ICT uses in emerging Asia, and at the same time to participate the International Communication Association (ICA) conference 2010 in Singapore.

In the ICA news letter Rohan says,

A dissemination event co-organised by LIRNEasia and the National University of Singapore (NUS) will be held on 22 June 2010 in Singapore. The event will feature research findings from LIRNEasia’s project “Mobile 2.0”.

A one day tutorial session will be held prior to the dissemination event on 21 June 2010.

If you would like to attend either one or both events, please download and fill out the application form given below and e-mail it to info@cprsouth.org. Preliminary agendas for the two events are given below.

Adjusted per diem allowance will be given to those who attend the event(s).

Application form

Agenda for the dissemination event

Agenda for the Tutorials

Telecommunications: Ubiquity And Equity In A Broadband Environment will be held on August 26-28, 2010. Wellington, New Zealand. Co-Chaired by Stanford Levin, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Bronwyn Howell, Victoria University of Wellington & ISCR

The deployment of increasingly faster and more capable broadband technologies around the world poses significant questions for telecommunications firms, regulators and policy-makers.

Where will these new technologies and the applications they support be made available, what forms will they take, who will provide them and how will they be regulated?

The 14th IACC will feature forty interactive workshops and five plenary sessions, each revolving around one of the key “Global Challenges” of the Conference. The Conference will take place from 10 – 13 November 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Proposals are welcome, from anyone who shares the interest in finding effective solutions to corruption. The call is currently open, so please read through this section carefully to find out just what you need to do to submit a proposal.

Four key global challenges stand out for this year’s Conference. These global challenges in some way or another affect us all – and for this reason we are looking for solution oriented workshop proposals. You can click on the links below to know more about each global challenge and why is it so relevant to address them:

TPRC is an annual conference on communication, information and internet policy that convenes international and interdisciplinary practitioners and researchers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations together with policymakers. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge requirements of policymakers and industry. The conference agenda will consist of papers selected from reviewed, submitted abstracts, student papers and selected panel submissions.

Sixth International Summer School organised jointly by the EU FP7 project PrimeLife  and the IFIP Working Groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7 11.4, 11.6  “Privacy and Identity Management for Life (PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School 2010)” to be held in Helsingborg, Sweden, 2nd - 6th August 2010 in cooperation with the EU FP7 project ETICA.

After the success of the 2009 PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School, the European project PrimeLife and IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing, Working Groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7 11.4, 11.6) will continue their joint cooperation. This year they will hold an International Summer School on the topic of Privacy and Identity Management for Emerging Internet Applications throughout a Person's Lifetime.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution amending the United Nations University (UNU) Charter whereby the UNU has the right to grant master's degrees and doctorates in December 2009.

SAGE instituted THE TEJESHWAR SINGH MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIPS in 2009 to honour Tejeshwar Singh, Managing Director of SAGE India for 25 years and doyen of the publishing industry in South Asia.

ADDITIONAL FELLOWSHIP IN 2010: SAGE is pleased to announce the addition of a third fellowship in the SOCIAL SCIENCES in 2010. Proposals in the areas of social justice--including individual rights, changing lifestyles and the significance of an expanded educated class would be preferred. Preference will be given to proposals that are interdisciplinary in scope. For the purposes of this award social sciences comprise economics, economic and social history, political science, psychology, sociology and social anthropology.