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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 d’Orville, 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 UNDP’s 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 (UNDP’s main development databank
site)
http://www.sdnp.undp.org (managed by UNDP’s 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 [log in to unmask]; or Hans d’Orville at
(212) 906-3687 or [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask]
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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
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