IDRC Champions Intellectual Platform for Developing Countries 2005-12-23
IDRC announces plans to create an Open Archive, the first among Canadian research funding organizations. The Open Archive will provide full access over the Internet to IDRC's rich research archive.

Launch of telecentre.org to strengthen the global telecentre movement 2005-11-17
On 17 November 2005, at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Microsoft Corporation, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), announced the launch of telecentre.org, a CA$21 million collaborative initiative that will strengthen the capacity of tens of thousands of community-based telecentres around the world.

Canada's IDRC at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia 2005-11-15
Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) will showcase the work of 70 of its research partners from developing countries at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia, 16–18 November 2005.

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to Invest CA $7 Million in IDRC Project 2005-11
IDRC welcomes the announcement that CIDA will invest CA $7 million over three years to build on the results of the Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project (TEHIP).

IDRC AWARDS CA $1 MILLION TO ECOHEALTH RESEARCH NETWORK 2005-06-17
Ottawa, June 17, 2005 ─ Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced today that IDRC is awarding CA $1 million to a network of Latin American, Caribbean and Canadian researchers to reduce exposure to toxic environmental poisons and improve collective human health in the Latin America and Caribbean region.

IDRC PLEDGES CA $1 MILLION TO RESEARCH TO PREVENT COMMUNICABLE DISEASES 2005-06-15
Ottawa, June 15, 2005 - Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) announced today that it will dedicate CA $1 million to new research to prevent and control vector-borne communicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean. Vector-borne diseases are infections caused by parasites, viruses, or bacteria, that insects or other carriers convey from an infected person to an uninfected one.