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From: Sam Lanfranco <SLanfranco@bellanet.org>
To: Infodev Forum <infodev-l@lyris.bellanet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 12:20 PM
Subject: Notice: UNDP Opens Global Informtion Banks to Development Experts


> 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).
>
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>
> 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.
>
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> 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
>

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> 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.
>