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asia and the pacific11 March 2010

100th International Women's Day Finds Expression in UNPAN-RCOCI Portal

International Women's Day is a global festival celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women in the past, present and future. As a special effort, RCOCI has tried to cover a variety of women issues in her dozens of newly published documents, weekly PA news, monthly Governance Asia-Pacific Watch (February 2010), and quarterly Asia-Pacific City Informatizatin Bulletin (Spring 2010).

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dpadm09 March 2010

9th Session of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration

The ninth session of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration, to be held from 19 to 23 April 2010, will focus on how public administration can cope with the current challenges and regard them as opportunities for structural overhaul and reform.

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arab states04 March 2010

5th Meeting of the Consultative Committee on Scientific and Technological Development and Technological Innovation

The ICT Division of ESCWA is organizing the 5th Meeting of the Consultative Committee on Scientific and Technological Development and Technological Innovation (ESTIC) during 29-30 March 2010, at the UN-House in Beirut, Lebanon. The meeting outcome and recommendations would be submitted to the 26th ESCWA ministerial session that will take place in May 2010.

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dpadm26 February 2010

International Conference of Innovative Cities

The International Conference of Innovative Cities will be held in Curitiba, Brazil on 10-13 March 2010. The Conference is organized by the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná, counting on institutional sponsorship of UNDESA and the World Bank, among others. The Conference will discuss networking for promoting innovations in cities and public administration in all regions, counting on a set of high-level speakers including mayors, entrepreneurs, authors and experienced practitioners.

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dpadm22 February 2010

UNDESA announces the launch of the 2010 World Public Sector Report

The 2010 World Public Sector Report brings to the fore a very critical issue - how to reconstruct public administration in post-conflict situations so as to enable it to promote peace and development in countries that have been affected by civil war and destruction. It is a question that has remained unresolved for decades and has brought poverty, despair, and death to people in many corners of the world.

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dpadm16 February 2010

UNPAN 2010 Courses now available...

The Online Training Center has re-opened its courses for the year 2010. If you wish to register for our courses, which are available in English, French, Ukrainian, Russian and Arabic, please click on the link provided below. Each course is self-guided, and must be completed within 60 days of registration. A certificate of completion will be awarded at the end of the course. For more information, contact Ms. Milagros Verendia at verendiam@un.org.

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asia and the pacific08 February 2010

Featured News Article...

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) announces its February to June 2010 e-Learning Course Calendar.

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dpadm03 February 2010

The Latest UNPAN Newsletter is now available

The 2010 1st quarter edition of the UNPAN Newsletter is now available on UNPAN.

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europe01 February 2010

Call for contributions on Future Research on ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling

Although the main focus of the contributions is ICT research, the submission of position papers dealing with other related disciplines, such as computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, economics, sociology, political sciences, law and services are also encouraged.

Authors of the 5 best papers of this call will be invited to join the CROSSROAD Expert Scientific Committee.

Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of position papers: 25 February 2010
Announcement of results and best papers: 25 March 2010

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Events

12th Winelands Conference
Mar 15, 2010 to Mar 19, 2010
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Stellenbosch University

Performance & Results-Based Management in the African Public Sector Institutions State & Agencies
Mar 15, 2010 to Mar 17, 2010
Banjul
Republic of the Gambia, CAFRAD and Islamic Research and Training Institute

Enhancing Leadership in Citizen Service Delivery
Mar 16, 2010 to Mar 18, 2010
Gaborone, Botswana
CAPAM

Documents

The Gender Digital Divide in Rural Pakistan: How Wide Is It & How to Bridge It?
This ppt presentation urges closing the gender gap by efforts in the following aspects: Revised IT Policy/interventions for women's empowerment to stress role of 'old' ICTs such as radio, TV for development & women's empowerment in particular: accessible & potentially empowering; Implies (public) investment in related infrastructure & (localised) contents; Social norms crucial factors determining women & girls' access to & use of ICTs, to be addressed if universal access to ICTs is policy objective; ICTs not silver bullet for development: Basic development issues, e.g. livelihood insecurity, physical infrastructure, to be addressed first.
11 March 2010

ICTs for Women's Empowerment - Learning From Best Practices
This fine presentation was delivered at Sustainable Development Policy Institute, August 13, 2009. It describes such case studies like NCHD: Community Technology Learning Centers (CTLC); Visual Anthropology-Woman to Woman Video Project; eHomemakers-Empowering Women through Home Based Income Earning (Malaysia); Foundation of Occupational Development (FOOD): Inter-city Marketing Network for Women Micro-entrepreneurs.
11 March 2010

Information and Communication Technologies and Gender in Sri Lanka
The general objective of the project was to study the diffusion of new information and communication technologies in Sri Lanka from a gender perspective and the use of information technology in economic, social and political spheres. The specific objectives of the study were to assess from a gender perspective the following dimensions of the issue.
11 March 2010

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