Re: [Fwd: UNDP: Global information banks for development experts]
Sheila Page (mailto:sheila@PAGE.DEMON.CO.UK)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:47:29 +0100
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:47:29 +0100
From: Sheila Page <mailto:sheila@PAGE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: UNDP: Global information banks for development experts]
To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
In article <mailto:3723EC79.1F0ADF14@akron.infi.net>, Bob Pyke Jr
mailto:<repyke@AKRON.INFI.NET> writes
>Fyi,
>Bob Pyke Jr
>UNDP Opens Global Information Banks to Development Experts
>
>New York, 13 April 1999 A global storehouse of development
>information and solutions for researchers, small businesses and
>others will go on-line here tomorrow (Wednesday, 14 April).
>
>Journalists are invited to preview three new internet websites at 11
>a.m. in the Hank Shannon Room on the 21st Floor of United
>Nations Development Programme headquarters, One UN Plaza
>(1st Avenue at East 44th Street), New York.
>
>Hans dOrville, Director of the UNDP Information Technologies for
>Development Programme (ITDP), will present the sites, which will
>provide information on human rights, the "Y2K" problem, "e-
>commerce" with special emphasis on developing countries, and
>reports on successful development initiatives in dozens of
>countries.
>
>UNDP Administrator James Gustave Speth will officially launch the
>three new websites at an evening event that will be open to the
>public and the press at 6:30 p.m. in the Visitors Lobby of the main
>United Nations building.
>
>UNDP created the ITDP in 1997 to raise awareness of the benefits
>of information and communications technologies for developing
>countries and to empower poor communities to identify and achieve
>their development goals. ITDP is part of UNDPs Bureau for
>Development Policy.
>
>The new websites are designed to be an information "one-stop
>shop" for development experts, governments, and the private
>sector. The sites have been combined under an umbrella site,
>
>http://www.knowledgebroker.org
>
>The sites can also be accessed individually:
>
>http://www.undp.org/info21 (UNDPs main development databank
>site)
>
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org (managed by UNDPs Sustainable
>Development Network Programme)
>
>http://www.solutions-site.org (a site established jointly by Horizons
>Communications, UNDP, the UN Environment Programme, the UN
>Population Fund, UNICEF, the Ottawa-based International
>Development Research Center, and Yale and Harvard universities.
>
>For information, contact Francois Coutu by telephone at (212) 906-
>5344 or by e-mail at mailto:francois.coutu@undp.org; or Hans dOrville at
>(212) 906-3687 or mailto:hans.dorville@undp.org. Journalists who are not
>accredited at the United Nations must contact Atsuko Okuda to
>gain access to the website preview or the official launch. Call (212)
>906-6329 or send e-mail to mailto:aokuda@undp.org.
>
>***************
>
>
>Eberhard Wenzel MA PhD
>SIGIH-Convenor
>School of Public Health
>Logan Campus
>Griffith University
>Meadowbrook, Qld. 4131
>Australia
>Tel: 61-7-3382 1026
>Fax: 61-7-3382 1034
>e-mail: mailto:e.wenzel@mailbox.gu.edu.au
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>
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>Susan Sontag
>
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