UN and host country linkages

Collaboration within the UN

Joint development of WaterBase software with UNU-INWEH.
Study of south-to-south cooperation in software technology to be published as part of the South Report (funded by UNDP). Several UN agencies are part of this project.
Joint projects on e-government being developed in Jordan with UNU-ILI.
Joint funding proposal submitted to EU Commission with UNU-MERIT for legal issues related to open-source software.
Collaboration with UNU-INCORE led to research at UNU-IIST on ethical issues related to protocols for the internet. This work has been presented at ITU meetings and published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Further development of this work at Oxford University has led to a patent application and commercial implementation.
A joint event with UNU-ONY held at UN Headquarters during 2006 with two more scheduled in 2007.

Collaboration within Macao

We continue to have good relations with the Macao Government and other local institutions, particularly the Macao Foundation and the University of Macau:

e-Macao Project: This project, described in section *, is a collaboration involving the Macao Government, the University of Macau, and the engineering institute INESC-Macau. 44 agencies of Macao Government directly participated in this project. The second phase of the project has been approved by the Government with multi-annual funding for three years.
Strategic IT Planning for Public Organizations: This project, described in section * aims to build capacity and methodology for carrying out strategic IT planning for public organizations. In the first instance, the planning exercise is carried out for Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT), funded by IFT.
UNU Research Repository: This on-line repository of research materials is a UNU-wide collaboration, and starting to involve other UN agencies: see section *. The Macao Foundation is sharing the cost.
Macao Science and Technology Committee: is a major funding source within Macao and we currently have one project partly funded by it.
The Global Desktop Project: has a total of 17 partners in Macao and China: see section *.

Other collaborative projects

Semantic Interoperability for Electronic Government: This project, described in section * is a collaboration between UNU-IIST and Microsoft to carry out research, development and community-building on semantic interoperability in the context of public organizations, funded by Microsoft and UNU-IIST.
UNeGov.net Initiative: This project, described in section *, collaborates with various government and non-government organizations to build a Community of Practice for Electronic Governance in Developing Countries. In 2006 in particular, UNeGov.net co-organized the workshop and school on Foundations of Electronic Governance in Abuja, Nigeria together with the National IT Development Agency, Government of Nigeria. Also, a UNU-IIST event "eGovernance and Free Software: How They are Changing Developing Countries" was co-organized in the UN Headquarters, together with the Global Desktop Project and UNU-ONY.
CREDO: is an EU-funded project on "Modeling and analysis of evolutionary structures for distributed services". UNU-IIST's funding is Euro 200000 over 3 years, which will pay for a post-doctoral researcher, who will collaborate in particular with Dr. Bernhard Aichernig at the University of Graz, Austria: see section *.

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