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  • Mozambique I

    I arrived after almost 24 hours of travel. All well but I was told today (yes, it is Monday morning here) is a holiday and although UNDP is open for business the Gov is not. The DESA mission starts tomorrow but there is no agenda yet. We will work on that today, that is for…

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  • OSS Interview

    I received an email from a WSJ journalist on Wednesday requesting to do an interview over the phone. That happened yesterday at noon. This is one of the results of the conference we co-sponsored in DC. I was on the phone with him for almost an hour. I also gave him contact names in SA.…

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  • ABA/ILRC Meeting

    One of the goals of today’s meeting was to expand the services provided by the ILRC to other practices in addition to governance. Intro by ILRC a) by now they what works and what deesn’t; b)it is a global network of lawyers with local language support; not all Americans and are sensitive to cutural diversity,…

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  • Meeting with RR Philippines – Nokia partnership

    Yesterday I met with Terence Jones, RR PH, to discuss the Nokia et.al. partnership. Some joint concerns put on the table included: a) MoU signature vis-a-vis UNDP’s rules and regs and long term implications; UNDP needs to be flexible but to a point; b) role of UNDP supported Documentator as critical to assess the partnership…

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  • 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

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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.…

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  • Dos 11s

    Ese martes ya estaba sentado en el tren suburbano que tediosamente me lleva a diario a la oficina. Justo esa mañana había salido un poco tarde de casa y apenas había alcanzado a tomar el tren de las 9:09am – el “tren de los vagos” como lo bautizó mi mujer, Ana, unos cuantos meses antes.…

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