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The Program is the capacity building component of the Investigating the Social and Economic Impact of Public Acces to ICT is a five-year, CAD$7.9 million research project supported by Canada's International Development Research Center (IDRC), and a grant to IDRC from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Managed by IDRC, it is executed through two sub-projects: the Global Impact Study and the Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program. The Global Impact Study, led by the Technology & Social Change Group at the University of Washington, funds a series of rigorous studies that aims to generate concrete evidence on the impact of public acces to ICT. The Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program, led by Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, in collaboration with scholars from Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina and the University of the Philippines and South Africa's LINK Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, deepens the capacity of emerging scholars with the goal of increasing the amount of quality research in the area of public access to ICT from developing countries.
It is named in honor of Amy Mahan, a distinguished colleague and dear friend who was a member of the Research Working Group of the Global Impact Study until her passing on 5 March 2009.
The Program's objectives are to deepen and strengthen the capacity of emerging scholars in developing countries to carry out rigorous research in the area of public access to ICT, while simultaneously increasing the availability of high-quality research in the subject area coming from the developing regions of the world.
The Program awarded 12 research proposals from emerging scholars from developing countries such Africa and the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and Latin America and the Caribbean. Fellowships have beeb provided with one research grant and specialized "mentoring" guidance to enable emerging researchers to carry out their riginal research study that addresses one or more critical research questions regarding the impact of public access to ICTs.