[open-development] Grants for open applications development

Tue Jan 31 09:41:31 UTC 2012

Great initiative!

If the development phase deadline was a bit longer, it would have been great to get some of the youth orgs in the countries where we work involved in this project. So for example, developing an app linking up  govt data/World Bank data with IDS research data to see whether research in a particular thematic area follows need or funding and highlighting gaps … but it’s just too tight.

Simon – is the data geo-coded? I know the database is searchable by country, just wondered what coding system you use?

Cheers,

Sarah

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From: open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Simon Colmer
Sent: 31 January 2012 08:37
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Subject: [open-development] Grants for open applications development

Dear all,

I wanted to let you know that IDS Knowledge Services have some grants available to create applications that make use of our datasets on academic research on development issues.

Apologies that the deadline is so tight, but I thought it might be useful for either members of this group or worth forwarding to anyone you think might be interested? (Please note that developers need to be based in the South to be eligible)

Thanks very much.

Call for Proposals

The IDS Knowledge Services Open Application Programming Interface (API) provides easy programmatic access to tens of thousands of thematically organised resources, primarily academic research, on development issues that are freely available online.

IDS Knowledge Services invites your organisation to apply for a small technical grant. These grants are available to application developers in developing countries wishing to use information and communication technologies to repurpose, and contextualise research on development issues and so inform evidence based policy making.

Individual grant maximum: GBP £3000

Implementation period: 5 weeks

Application deadline: 13 February 2012

We are currently offering two types of grant:

1) Plug in grants

These grants are allocated to design and build plug-ins/modules/add ons to existing content management systems and web platforms. The plug-ins will import or display a user defined selection of data from the KS data sets. There are two grants currently available, for developing a Wordpress plug-in and an HTML embeddable "widget".

2)            Innovation grants

These grants are allocated to design and build applications or services that use innovative ways of combining data and information from different sources, to create new tools, applications and systems which are useful, meaningful and relevant for informing development policy and practice.

Preference will be given to proposals that focus on the programme’s key thematic or technological areas, as follows:

THEMES

•             Climate Change

•             Food and Agriculture

•             Health

•             Governance

•             Gender

TECHNOLOGY

•             Mobile

•             Mapping

•             Applications supporting people in areas of limited connectivity

Full details can be found in the attached documents, or online http://api.ids.ac.uk/about/grants.shtml

Simon Colmer
Information Projects Officer
Knowledge Service Department
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
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