Winners of the Fourth Young Researcher Fellowships
It is with great pleasure that we announce the results of the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the Fourth Young Researcher Fellowships.
National Plan for Broadband Development in Peru takes into account the affordability of services
The Temporal Mutisectoral Commision in charge of setting up the National Plan for Broadband Development in Peru continues its work and on Thursday 19 July 2010 organised its second workshop.
48 applications received for DIRSI's Young Researchers Fellowship
July 30th was the deadline for applications to DIRSI's Fourth edition of Young Researchers competition.
Forty-eight proposals were received from 12 countries in Latin America, namely Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Uruguay. Twenty two of the applicants were women.
RECORDATORIO: vence llamado a concurso de investigadores jóvenes
El 30 de julio vence el plazo para presentar propuestas para el cuarto llamado para Jóvenes Investigadores de DIRSI.
New Document Series: Policy Briefs
Policy-Briefs, a new series of DIRSI's documents, aims at disseminating the network's research activities.
Tis first set of Policy Briefs includes four documents, each one in Spanish, in Portuguese and in English:
National Plan for Broadband Development in Peru: DIRSI's comments
As part of the elaboration of the National Broadband Plan in Peru, the multisectoral commission in charge frequently issues reports and requests for comments.
Peru: it is time to make the legal framework for the productivity factor more precise, Roxana Barrantes suggests
Interviewed by SEMANAeconómica, Dr. Roxana Barrantes, member of DIRSI's steering commitee, commented on the discrepancies between the incumbent operator Telefónica del Perú and the regulatory authority OSIPTEL, regarding the current methodology for establishing the productivity factor and the mobile termination charges.
Participate in the Public Consultation eLAC2015 “Towards a new Regional Action Plan for the Information Society”
The survey will be open until July 17th and can be directly reached here.
The results will be published on the programme's website.
IDRC selecciona al Instituto de Estudios Peruanos como receptor de la Iniciativa Think Tank
El Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), institución administradora de DIRSI, fue seleccionada por el Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC) como receptor de fondos de la iniciativa Think Tank. La iniciativa tiene como objetivo seleccionar e impulsar instituciones independientes de investigación, en países en desarrollo.
Young Researchers Fellowship - Fourth edition, 2010
DIRSI is inviting young Latin American researchers to submit applications to the Fourth edition of the Young Researcher Fellowships program. Three fellowships of US$6,000 are available to support research within the network's current themes: Bandwidth for All, Mobile Opportunities 2.0 and New Indicators on ICT Access and Use.
Eligible applicants are young researchers (born in 1975 or after) conducting their academic activities in Latin America. Proposals must be submitted by 30 July 2010 and the final reports must be completed by 10 January 2011.
