Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert is the 2013 recipient of the Partners in Research (PIR) Technology Ambassador Award. This award recognizes Deibert’s contributions to enhancing public understanding of the benefits of communications research and...
The launch of a second phase of project funding under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund, a joint IDRC–Canadian International Development Agency initiative, was featured in a number of media outlets:
The Toronto Star and...
Africa welcomed its newest centre of rigorous mathematics training for postgraduate African students. The official opening ceremony of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences-Ghana (AIMS-Ghana) took place in March 2013. Representatives from...
IDRC grantee Citizen Lab has won the 2013 Canadian Library Association’s (CLA) Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada Award for its work against Internet censorship and global abuses of cyber technology. The Citizen Lab team, based at the...
Simon Carter, IDRC's regional director for sub-Saharan Africa, spoke about ways to improve Africa’s investment climate to achieve growth, create more jobs, and reduce poverty. Carter attended a two-day conference in Nairobi on reforming Africa’s...
Neil Turok, Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) was named this year’s Massey Lecturer.
In a five-part broadcast on CBC’s national radio show Ideas...
Tanya Springer was awarded the 2012 Norman Bethune Award for Excellence in International Health Reporting by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). Springer is a former IDRC journalism awardee.
Springer’s documentary "Of Mothers and...
IDRC is pleased to announce that Oluwasola Fasan, a graduate of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town, is a winner of a 2012 L'Oreal-UNESCO women in science international fellowship.In 2008, Fasan who is from Nigeria...
IDRC is pleased to announce that another 19 doctoral students in sub-Saharan Africa will receive financial and research support under the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships (ADDRF) program. The program, launched in 2008, addresses...
In May, Promethean Power Systems and their Indian partner Icelings were awarded the first Indo-US Science and Technology Endowment Board grant for their solar-powered system for refrigerated storage to keep fruits and vegetables from spoiling and...