Grace Santos's Blog (2)

The iBoP Small Grants Program was launched last July 2008 to provide the necessary funds for researchers in Southeast Asia to bring forth their innovative research ideas and help create S&T-based solutions to the development needs/problems of the BoP. The Program is extending small grants of up to 25,000 CAD (Canadian Dollars) to turn these ideas into action. We are happy to announce this year's grantees under the Program: Isda.mobi: a mobile phone interface for small-scale fishers to a… Continue

A warm hello to everyone! I'd like to share some stuff about iBoP Asia, a project that was launched by the Ateneo School of Government last June. Done in partnership with Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC CRDI), this project, of which I am a part of, would like to promote and enable the development of technologies, processes and policies that will facilitate the base of the pyramid's engagement in and access to S&T products and services. We just had a call for proposa… Continue