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Category: ICTD

  • Open Source and the NY Times

    I was interviewed for a NY Times on the Open Source vs. MS Windows “war.” The article was published yesterday. It is here. The article’s title, however, seems to mix so-called shareware with Open Source. Those are two very different animals. And, as expected, my first name is misspelled. So what else is new? Cheers,…

  • Meeting with the Advisory Board of Ireland Aid

    Stephen, Radhika and I met with the Advisory Board. Yuri Afanasiev from RBEC was also present. After the presentation by Stephen, members of the delegation raised serious concerns about the relevance of ICT vis-�-vis other development priorities. They saw huge obstacles in practical terms for Africa in relation to infrastructure, basic education and capacity commitment…

  • SDNP Malawi

    Malawi SDNP Meeting with Azusa Kuwota, PO Malawi CO. The future of SDNP is at stake and after 7 years of supporting the programme the CO is eager to make it an independent entity. For this purpose, a national consultant was recruited earlier this year to assess the situation and issue recommendations. The consultant was…

  • Meeting with UNF – Conectas Project

    I met with Malak Poppovic (UNF Senior Advisor, Sao Paolo) and Lena Sinha (BRSP) to discuss the above project and identify potential for collaboration. Conectas (http://www.conectas.org) is a non-gov, non-profit network working on human rights on a global scale. One of their priorities is to use of ICT to enhance collaboration and information exchange (I…

  • UN ICT Task Force Meeting

    Stephen, Radhika and I met with Sarbuland Khan and Sergey Kambalov to discuss a) ICTD Strategies workshop and b) follow-up to high level meeting of this morning with the UN on WSIS The TF expressed interest in supporting the proposed workshop in Mozambique and agreed in principle to fund part of it. They have 60k…

  • Irish Aid Meeting

    Today, Stephen, Sarah and myself met with an Irish Aid delegation which included Mr. Tom Hanney- Director, Multilateral UN Policy, Ms. Dympna Hayes Deputy Director, Multilateral UN Policy, and Ms. Joana Betson, First Secretary. Mission of Ireland to the UN. The delegation had great interest in hearing from UNDP about the relevance of ICT into…

  • Private Sector RM Strategy

    Yesterday, Sarah and I met with Casper Sonneson from BRSP to discuss the above. BRSP has some resources and consultants that can work full time on this. They are planning to do a pilot on two practice ares, ICTD and Energy. The consultants are former McKinsey staff that left the company to create their own…

  • ICTD Web Site – Update

    The new page is now in production. Check it out! I have already added almost 20 links and more coming. The idea here is to just have UNDP PUBLIC news, updates, projects, etc. only (in contrast with the Observatory). Let me know if you have others. Enjoy, Ra�l

  • Why UNDP?

    Atsushi asked for some rationale as to why the GoJ (or any other donor for that matter) should support ICTD in UNDP. Here is what I sent him yesterday. Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 05:53:56 -0500 (EST) From: Raul ZAMBRANO To: Atsushi Yamanaka Subject: WHY? Message-ID: Here are some ideas as to why GoJ should…

  • ICTD Web Site

    Our corporate ICTD web site is not really doing well. I have asked Serge to develop an app that will allow us to easile add updates to the home page, similar to the Observatory but independent. In that way we can post UNDP ICTD related stuff easily an at leat maintain the page up to…

  • ICTD Observatory

    Serge is working on changing NIT to be more of a portal with the categories we have defined. The idea is to have customized category pages using country, region and type of article as initial descriptors. We have also removed the SDNP refernece to the NIT and it is now the ICTD Observatory or NIT.…