Opportunities
ICT Update: Call for
Articles - opening access and rights for use
ICT Update magazine is looking for articles for our
forthcoming issue on opening access and rights for use. We would like to
hear from people working on improving access to digital materials through the
adoption of Creative Commons licences and Open Access approaches. Have your
Agricultural or rural development program either benefitted from making
information available in open access forms or making more materials available
with creative commons licences.
Open
Call to Innovators: Apply to present at G-8 International Conference on Open
Data for Agriculture
In an exciting opportunity, the G-8 is inviting
innovators to apply to present ideas that demonstrate how open data can be
unleashed to increase food security at the G-8 International Conference on Open
Data in Agriculture on April 29-30, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
Deadline: 28 February 2013
The
Rockefeller Foundation: CENTENNIAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE
In celebration of our centennial, The Rockefeller
Foundation is calling on your ingenuity to chart new paths, paths that will
transform the lives of billions working in informal economies across the globe.
Submit your idea by April 1, 2013. As many as 10 of the Finalists will be
invited to apply for a grant of up to US $100,000 each and win support in
proposal writing to enable the further development of submitted ideas.
Deadline: 1 April 2013
CALL
FOR APPLICATIONS: Yahoo! Fellow in Residence
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is
pleased to invite applications for the position of Yahoo! Fellow in Residence
for the academic year 2013-2014. This one academic year position is funded by
the Yahoo! Fund on International Values, Communications Technology and the
Global Internet, which was established at Georgetown University by a gift from
Yahoo! Inc. The Yahoo! Fellow will be chosen by Georgetown University from
applicants drawn from the government, corporate, non-profit and academic
sectors.
Deadline: 8 April 2013
MyCOE
/ SERVIR Initiative in West Africa
The MyCOE / SERVIR Initiative in West Africa is a
10-month fellowship program for undergraduate and graduate students in eligible
countries in West Africa who are currently enrolled in any field at an
institution of higher education in an eligible country with ideas and plans for
research that address themes of Women in Climate Change and Food Security using
geographic technologies. Students are invited to propose a research and
outreach project and will be competitively selected on the basis of their
long-term potential to contribute to these topics in the region.
Deadline: 30 April 2013
OFID Scholarship Award
2013/14
OFID
(The OPEC Fund for International Development) is pleased to announce that qualified
applicants who have obtained or are on the verge of completing their
undergraduate degree and who wish to study for a Master's degree are welcome to
apply for the OFID Scholarship 2013. The OFID Scholarship will be awarded to
support students or candidates for Master’s degree studies. The applicant must
be from a developing country, and he/she must first obtain admission to pursue
a Master's (graduate) degree in any recognized university/college in the world.
The Scholarship is open to those students who wish to pursue studies in a
relevant field of Development or Energy Studies.
Deadline: 1
May 2013
One
Fine Day Film Workshop
African filmmakers telling their own stories, this
is what One Fine Day Film Workshop is about.
Treasuring African stories and wanting to enable
talented filmmakers to reach a larger amount of viewers, the independent film
production company ONE FINE DAY FILMS developed with DW Akademie and GINGER INK
a training workshop concept called One Fine Day Film Workshop.
Deadline: 1 May 2013
The
Yara Prize 2013-For A Green Revolution in Africa
As part of the company’s centennial celebration in
2005 – and in response to the call for an African Green Revolution – Yara
launched its prize to recognize outstanding contributions to African
agriculture. In 2013, the Yara Prize will have a specific focus on young women
and men who are making a particular effort within agriculture paying particular
attention to innovation and entrepreneurship.
Deadline: 3 May 2013
