[kictanet] Grants for open applications: call for proposals

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*Grants for open applications developmentfrom ** IDS Knowledge Services*

*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







 development from ** IDS Knowledge Services*

*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