Social development
Information Wars in Southeast Asia
In recent years, the internet and social media have become the arena for ideological and security battles. Much optimism about the role of digital resources in promoting knowledge and democratic values has turned into preoccupation that they are rather a source of authoritarian control and ...
Open Data for Anti-Corruption
You are invited to join the Roundtable Discussion on OPEN DATA FOR ANTI-CORRUPTION, to be organized this Saturday, June 15th, 2019, during 09:00 – 16:00 hrs at Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ), 15th Fl., Witthayu Road, Bangkok. Let’s join and exchange your opinion among experts and practitioners, ...
Regional Capacity Strengthening Program for Indigenous Peoples Advocates
The Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) in partnership with the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) is calling for applications for a regional capacity strengthening program – ‘Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Business‘ – to be held in ...
BOOK LAUNCHED: Love, Money and Obligation: Transnational Marriage in a Northeastern Thai Village
Globalization means transnational marriages and intimacies become increasingly viable options for women and men. Patcharin Lapanun explores the marriages of Thai women with *farang* men, and complicates conventional views about materiality and intimacy in these settings.The sentiments and life stories of women and men engaging in ...
Event: Mobile Journalism Conference Asia
This conference will bring Asian journalists and media professionals together to exchange their experiences in using smartphones to support their journalism and newsrooms. We will bring experts from across the region to Bangkok for panel discussions, workshops and masterclasses on video reporting and production, photojournalism, ...
CALL FOR ABSTRACT: The 6th International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD) 2019
Launched in 2010, the ICIRD Knowledge Network is a platform for academic cooperation among five of Thailand’s foremost providers of research and higher education, namely the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, the Master of Arts program in International Development Studies (MAIDS), Chulalongkorn University, the ...
Application to the Mi Yong Scholars Program extended for Thai, Cambodia, and Vietnamese nationals
The MIYS Program is a learning and capacity building opportunity for nationals of the Greater Mekong Subregion to receive hands-on experience in development cooperation work at Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Selected scholars will take part in a six-month structured learning program and work ...
Call for Proposals: TAP Review Fall 2019
The Trans-Asia Photography (TAP) Review welcomes the submission of articles and proposals for curatorial projects on all aspects of photography in Asia. Articles may be based on research in any discipline, on interdisciplinary research, or on personal investigations. We are also interested in essays that have ...
Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF): Shrinking Democratic Space Online
The Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) is a platform for advancing a free, open, and secure Internet as a driver of development. #SIF2019 is organised by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). #SIF2019 offers an arena for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and collaboration. The theme for ...
Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program
The Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) is open to women and men from developing countries with relevant professional experience and history of supporting their countries’ development efforts who wish to pursue a Master Degree in a development-related field. JJWBGSP offers scholarships for over 200 ...
