Linking Research to Practice : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute : 9789814380003 : 9814380008 : 30 Mar 2012 : Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve healthcare, allow open government, and solve environmental issues. To realise this potential and influence policy-making and programme design, the Singapore Internet Research Centre, supported by the IDRC, created an innovative research capacity-building programme, SIRCA. The programme supports interdisciplinary ICTD research through the nurturing of research relationships. By bringing together experienced mentors with deserving early-career Asian researchers in an intellectually stimulating environment, SIRCA has fostered a cohort of talent capable of generating the rigorous scientific evidence needed. Their stories, and reflections upon the programme, are told here. If ever it needed demonstrating that ICTs are an indispensable tool for developing an information society rather than a