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The latest thinking on international development
from leading academics will be shared online via podcasts and videos as part of
a new initiative.

Access to medicine, education, food and clean water
are some of the areas to be showcased as part of the 15-month JISC project,
called the Bloomsbury Media Cloud.

Interviews and lectures will be produced and made
publicly available online to raise awareness of major challenges in developing
countries, including animal health, climate change and education. The resources
will be of particular interest to international development researchers and
students worldwide.

The initiative is led
by the Bloomsbury Colleges – a consortium of six
internationally-renowned institutions within the University of London.

Alex Hawker,
programme manager at JISC, said, “I am especially enthusiastic about this
project and the opportunities it will bring for universities to learn from each
other, particularly in the areas of negotiating licences for shared resources,
and joint leadership.  By making this important work openly accessible
online, JISC is allowing researchers to benefit from academic thought outside
the walls of their own universities and subject areas.”

Professor Quintin McKellar, principal of the Royal
Veterinary College which is participating, said, “International
development issues increasingly impact on all of our lives, from climate change
to the threat of diseases like swine flu. Online resources are an effective and
appealing way of engaging new audiences and informing them about these matters
in a clear and concise way. We are delighted to have secured funding for this
project from JISC.”

Innovative internet-based approaches are central to the Bloomsbury Media Cloud project including the storage of
digital resources in 'the cloud' (a virtual space online).

The project is being
undertaken in collaboration with the London
International Development Centre, which promotes interdisciplinary
research and training to tackle complex problems by bringing together different
scientists from across the consortium.

The initiative is supported by JISC's new programme
to help colleges and universities make efficiency savings by integrating and
sharing their information systems effectively.

For more information visit the project page.

TV documentaries like the Seven Ages of Britain fill in the gaps left by an "less impressive" school curriculum, says David Dimbleby.

The Joint Information Systems Committee  (JISC) invites institutions to submit proposals for projects in the area of the Information Environment.

Strand A - Deposit

Ensuring take-up of solutions that enable and encourage author deposit of Open Access research outputs into repositories by embedding deposit into research or related practice.

Total funds: £750,000. Up to 5 projects will be funded. Maximum funding for any one project is £300,000.

Strand B - Expose

Projects that enable content to be made available on the Web using structured data, in particular linked data which increases its potential value to researchers, teachers and learners.

Total funds: £750,000. Up to 20 projects will be funded. Maximum funding for any one project is £100,000.

A Briefing Document is available alongside this call, which outlines key background and scope information to which bidders should refer.

The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12 noon UK time on Tuesday 20th April 2010.

Bidders may submit proposals for more than one strand of this call. However each strand must be addressed in a SEPARATE bid with appropriate references to the related bid(s), identifying where there would be economies of scale and added value if more than one bid were funded.

Eligibility

Proposals may be submitted by Higher Education (HE) Institutions funded by HEFCE or HEFCW. FE institutions in England that teach HE to more than 400 FTEs are also eligible to bid provided proposals demonstrate work that supports the HE in FE agenda. HE and FE institutions in Northern Ireland and Scotland and FE institutions in Wales are not eligible to bid but may be involved as partners in proposals led by HE institutions funded by HEFCE or HEFCW or FE institutions in England which meet the criteria outlined above. Bids involving Welsh institutions should address one or more of the priorities outlined in ‘One Wales’, the Welsh Assembly Government's progressive agenda for Wales.

Targets for getting young people into higher education should be scrapped and top-up fees raised, say graduate recruiters.