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Category: ICTD

  • e-governance Assessment Mehodology

    Methodology Framework The proposed methodology framework focuses on measuring the value delivered by e-governance projects to different stakeholders and beneficiaries, as well as the effectiveness in the way UNDP implements and manages such projects. In general, a positive correlation is expected to exist between larger impact and good implementation and management but, on the other…

  • Comments on Draft Governance Assessments Global Programme

    Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:14:45 -0500 (EST) From: Raul Zambrano To: Noha El-mikawy Cc: Terence D Jones , Bjoern Foerde , Pauline Tamesis, Joachim Nahem , Veronica Perera Dear Noha,As mentioned in my previous message, here are some comments on the draft. I will skip all formalities and get right into the subject matter.…

  • e-gov and gender

    I am still I am still working on the e-gov and gender paper. It is taking longer than expected but then again the previous draft was a bit all over the place. I hope to finish this in a couple of days. Drafts can be found here http://sdnhq.undp.org/~raul/egov/gender Raul

  • Meeting with MOFA on Non-Core Funding

    This morning BDP and BRSP met with Mr. Nobuaki Ito, Director of Multilateral Cooperation Division, Economic Cooperation Bureau, MOFA at the Japan Mission to the UN. Minutes of the meeting were prepared by MOFA and are available. The big idea here is the “unification” of all non-core contributions to a single source of funding. It…

  • Beta Laptop

    I received a message from the OLPC team informing me that I will be receiving a B laptop early this week for testing purposes. The unit is being FEDEX to my office. I saw a similar machine a couple of weeks ago when a rep from OLPC based in NYC came to my office and…

  • e-voting Selected Papers

    Found this uselful site (http://www.social-informatics.net/evoting.htm) that is being maintained on a continuous basis by the Department of Science System Assessment at the Rathenau Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • 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…