Amy Mahan Research Fellows off to London to participate at ICTD2010

Following a year of rigorous research activities aimed to build upon the knowledge regarding public access to information and communication technologies (ICT), efforts of the Amy Mahan Research Fellows are beginning to bear fruit for the young scholars. Teams from Argentina, China, Malaysia, Peru, Rwanda and Thailand have all had papers accepted for the postgraduate day at ICTD2010, an international conference taking place in London where researchers and practitioners will meet to discuss the latest research in the field of ICT for development.

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The Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program

We are happy to announce the launch of the Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program to Assess the Impact of Public Access to ICT, a capacity-building component of the Global Impact Study named in honor of Amy Mahan, a dear friend and partner. This fellowship will award up to 12 Research Fellowships to teams of emerging scholars from developing countries in Africa and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Remembering Amy

Amy Mahan served on the Global Impact Study's Research Working Group since the project's inception a year and a half ago. She made key contributions to the conception and design of our research effort, helped shape its focus, hypotheses and methodology. Amy left us on March 5th, 2009, at age 47. She worked with us until the end and left suddenly, taking many of her friends and colleagues by surprise.

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