IDRC / CRDI

Interational Development Research Centre (IDRC) / Centre de Recherche sur le Développement International (CRDI) is a Canadian agency that sponsors applied and action research on international development. Among its areas of concern is localisation of ICT. In Africa, its Acacia Initiative program has for a number of years worked on ICT in Africa. It funded the PanAfrican Localisation project (2005-08) and the African Network for Localisation (2008-11).

IDRC has also sponsored or co-sponsored various other activities including in Asia: IOSN and the PAN L10n project.

Website: http://www.idrc.ca (there is a link in the sidebar also)

Regional offices

IDRC has regional offices in:

• Cairo, Egypt: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-8557-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
• Dakar, Senegal: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-8558-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
• Nairobi, Kenya: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-8559-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Other links

• "IDRC Perspective" (notes from talk by Dr. Adel El Zaim of IDRC about IDRC funding of localisation efforts; presented at the PanAfrican L10n Research & Blitz, 24 Feb. 2007)
• Wikipedia
  • EN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Development_Research_Centre
  • FR http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_de_recherches_pour_le_d%C3%A9veloppement_international

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