Below are the inputs we provided DGG for the upcoming global governance consultations in Joburg in less than 2 weeks. The final text builds on inputs from Minerva and Ruhiya. This should be a live document which we should be updating on  a regular basis. Cheers, Raúl ICTs for Democratic Governance and Sustainable Development  …

DGG has been working on this for the last few months. The week before last I got to see the latest version which had bu then changed substantially and added to its title the words collaborative governance and institutional innovations. Ruhiya and I discussed the text and spend a few hours adding track changes. Here…

Introduction As more people get connected to the global ICT networks (Internet, social networks, mobiles, etc.), especially in the developing world, the need to share information and knowledge through such networks increases. UNDP is not immune to these trends. As a result, the demand for IT services from programmes and units is on the rise.…

Oxfam Novib (OxNov, see here for background and short history: http://www.oxfamnovib.nl/history.html) has approach us to explore ways in which we can collaborate. OxNov informed me that they have an ongoing programme on access to information using ICTs. They also have interest on all the stuff we have promoting here at UNDP on empowerment, given voice…

Lats week I attended the second meeting of this group which includes representatives of most of the bureaux  – although RBx representation is on the weak side. We are invited by KICG to present the work we are jointly doing with BCPR which we are branding as governance innovations with ICTs in mind. The presentation…

Background The main objective of this two-day CO funded mission was to present to CCSS’s Board of Directors (BoD) the findings and recommendations of the diagnostic report that we completed and delivered to the Agency in early December 2012 ( a copy of the version submitted is here: http://undpegov.org/~raul/egov/country/costarica/CCSS-reporte-final-2012-12-06.docx, in Spanish). The mission also took…

Working with the support of the EU and the UN, UNDP Bishkek has just completed a e-readiness report that was undertake by an international e-governance consultant. A copy of the report that was shared with us by UNDP Kyrgyzstan is here: Final Assessment Report 19 Dec. The CO has requested us to provide comments. Here…

While completing the ROAR exercise for 2012, I run into his question. What has changed under this outcome area (with and without UNDP support)? Please specify the evidence base used. (4000 characters maximum) Here is what I quickly responded. The decisive impact of the Arab Spring and other social movements in this area has been…

The Administrator is planning to attend this forum (http://philanthropyforum.org) and BERA requested inputs along four questions. Here are the questions and the inputs provided. 1. What are ‘big’ opportunities for human development that can be spurred by ICT ?

The final version of this report does not have an Executive Summary. Plus we also discovered that the back cover had no text. So we decided to draft some text. I wrote the text below in response to an earlier draft prepared by Ruhiya. While developing countries continue to make important gains in accessing new…

Intel has been developing this paper for the last few months and is now seeking endorsement from major development organizations. The paper is supposed to be out next week. I have been in touch with Intel on this since August last year and have provided an initial set of comments that were not added to…

The new Microsoft Technology Officer (MSTO), based in DC and assigned to International Organizations, has been contacting me since November last year. We finally met on Tuesday 15 January when he was in town also meeting other organizations, UNWomen included. Here is what we agree to do: 1. Extend or renew the current MoU between…

Thiss week a UNDP post-2015 team member went to Korea to explore ways in which that country could support the process. Korea had also expressed interest on youth and ICTs to DGG -DGG being UNDP’s focal point on youth. DGG had suggested to the mission to also pitch e-governance. Here is what I prepared on…

14 February Inputs for TICAD5 one deadline. Submitted on 15th after speaking with TICAD FP 12 February – GFM request for cost estimates re GPIV and staffing. Matric produced in sync with Ops Manager. 5 February – support yo youth event with Benin, 14 Feb. MM commkted to support. Meeting on 7 Feb with MM…