Dear Colleagues,<br><br>Please see ad below for a Doctoral academy for ICT4D and STI4D PhD students. Please distribute to as many PhD students as you can. Sorry for any cross-posting.<br><br>Regards<br><br>tim waema<br>__________________________________________________________________________________________<br>
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<b><br>African Globelics Doctoral Academy (AGDA) 2010, <font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">July 2010, University of Nairobi,
Kenya</font></b>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Introduction</b></font></p>
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">We
are delighted to announce that the first African Globelics Doctoral
Academy for Research on Innovation and Technology Systems (AGDARITS)
for Development will be held at the University of Nairobi, Kenya from
4-16 July 2010. It is organized by SARCHi-IERI of Tshwane University
of Technology, South Africa, and the School of Computing and
Informatics of the University of Nairobi, Kenya. The inaugural
training is supported by Sida/SAREC, Sweden. This begins a systematic
way of building quality training of PhDs in Africa to be run
alternatively by different hosts in each region of Africa by drawing
support from both inside and outside Africa.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Purpose</b></font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">The purpose of the first AGDARITS is
to support the training of African Ph.D. students from the five
regions of Africa by including at least 5 PhD candidates doing
research on science, technology and innovation for development
(STI4D) and ICT for development (ICT4D) from the rest of the world
and 30 from African universities. The candidates should be advanced
Ph.D. students with research areas related to productive power
economics of innovation, STI4D and ICT4D and innovation systems. The
Academy will bring together frontier researchers in STI4D and ICT4D
and innovation systems from around the world to guide and mentor
African Ph.D. students from the five regions of Africa and the rest
of the world in order to inspire and qualify in their work and to
help them to join high-quality research networks in their field of
research. </font>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Expected outcome</b></font></p>
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">AGDARITS
is an intensive PhD training program expected to increase the quality
of the PhD work undertaken by Africa�s emerging scholars. The PhD
candidates will learn from senior researchers/scholars, from their
own colleagues and from the program that includes research
methodologies, emergent scholars� presentations and feedbacks and
lectures. The emergent researcher will return equipped with strong
methodological, conceptual and theoretical knowledge to explore and
dissect empirically any of the research chosen for writing PhD
theses.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Resource persons</b></font></p>
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">The
academy will be facilitated by senior scholars on ICT4D and STI4D
from universities inside and outside Africa. It will also include
presentations by policy makers in both ICT and STI.</font></font></p>
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<h1><font size="2">Exhibition and computer laboratory</font></h1>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">The African Globelics Doctoral
Academy�s PhD training would require an intensive combination of
quantitative and qualitative research methods. Such a training
programme requires that emergent researchers learn�to simulate
data in a computer laboratory. Training�in STATA software,
NVIVO, SPSS or other statistical software, Altiris and other software
packages will be useful to offer along with the formal teaching and
presentation by both senior and emergent researchers in the academy.</font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">PhD candidates are therefore expected
to participate in these computer laboratory sessions to consolidate
their research methods knowledge on the basis of choice. Candidates
are also encouraged to exhibit interesting simulations that they are
working on.</font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Participants</b></font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">AGDARITS will be mainly composed of
the PhD scholars that get selected every year possibly 6 from each of
the five regions of Africa and another 5 from the rest of the world.
The number of PhD scholars will be a maximum 35 in every round from
disciplines related to policy oriented analysis of science,
technology and innovation systems. </font>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Qualification requirements</b></font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">To qualify for participation, the
doctoral student should fulfill the following requirements: </font>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">be at least in the beginning of
his/her second year; </font>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">work explicitly on issues related to
STI4D and ICT4D; </font>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">be able to present an original paper
associated with his/her doctoral work. </font>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Participants must submit an extended
abstract of no less than 5 pages by June 1, 2010. basis of a general
call for Abstracts. Selection aims at promoting diversity among
participants, making sure that PhD candidates from each region of
Africa and at least another 5 from the rest of the world are
represented. The candidates from each geographical region of
Africa-South, East, West, Central and North Africans- and from the
rest of the world -with the best CVs and the most promising research
proposals will be selected. </font>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><br>The Ph.D. training will be based
on scholarly lectures as well as presentations from the Ph.D.
emergent researchers. Presentations by the emergent scholars are
expected to focus explicitly on their on-going research, its
methodological challenges and contribution to the advancement of
knowledge on STI4D and ICT4D.</font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Submission</b></font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Abstracts should be typed
double-spaced in English. The abstract should state the objectives,
methodology, expected results and conclusions of the work, including
supporting figures and main references. </font>
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><br>The
abstract, CV and a recommendation letter from the supervisor or from
another senior scholar should be uploaded into
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before June 1, 2010. Copies can also be send to the Local Secretariat
whose contacts are given below.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Selection</b></font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Potential PhD candidates� selection
will be based upon evaluation of an extended abstract of up to three
pages describing the student�s research, together with the
student�s CV and a recommendation letter from the supervisor or
from another senior scholar. <br></font><br>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Sponsorship</b></font></p>
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Meals
will be provided by the Local Organization. Expenses with
accommodation and travel for doctoral student participants will be
covered for those selected and sponsored. Funding will be awarded
selectively on the basis of applications � students must specify in
their application whether they will require funding, providing an
estimate of the amount required for travel expenses. Please note that
we are organizing this Program on a limited budget and therefore only
modest costs will be met for sponsored candidates. </font></font>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Support</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">The
first AGDARITS is supported by</font></p>
<ul><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="fr-FR">Sida
/SAREC (</span></font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.sida.se/" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="fr-FR">http://www.sida.se</span></font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="fr-FR">)</span></font></p>
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<ul><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">University
of Nairobi (</font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.uonbi.ac.ke/" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">http://www.uonbi.ac.ke</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">)
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</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="fr-FR">IERI-SARCHI
TUT (</span></font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.ieri.org.za/" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="fr-FR">http://www.ieri.org.za</span></font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="fr-FR">)
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Organization</b></font></p>
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">The
first ADA is jointly organized by the School of Informatics and
Computing of the University of Nairobi, Kenya and the South African
Research Chairs Initiative on Innovation Studies of the Institute for
Economics Research on Innovation, Pretoria, South Africa
(SARCHi-IERI) at Tshawne University of Technology. </font></font>
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<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Coordinating team</b></font></p>
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Prof.
Mammo Muchie, </font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:mammo@ihis.aau.dk" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">mammo@ihis.aau.dk</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">,
</font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:muchiem@tut.ac.za" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">muchiem@tut.ac.za</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Prof.
Joseph Kizza, </font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:joseph-kizza@utc.edu" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">joseph-kizza@utc.edu</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Prof.
Timothy Waema, </font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:waema@uonbi.ac.ke" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">waema@uonbi.ac.ke</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">,
</font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:timwololo@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">timwololo@gmail.com</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Contacts</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Secretarial
contact: Ms Christine Maina, </font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:agda@uonbi.ac.ke" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">agda@uonbi.ac.ke</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">,
</font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:mainacw@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">mainacw@gmail.com</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">
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<font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Local
Coordinator: Prof. Timothy Waema, </font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:waema@uonbi.ac.ke" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">waema@uonbi.ac.ke</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">,
</font><font color="#333399"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:timwololo@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">timwololo@gmail.com</font></a></span></font><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">
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