UN and host country linkages

Collaboration within the UN

Joint development of WaterBase software with UNU-INWEH.
Study of South-South cooperation in Software Technology, prepared and published as part of the UNDP-funded South Report. Several UN agencies are part of this project. See Section * for details.
An event on "South-South Cooperation for Electronic Governance - New Models of Collaboration" co-organized by the Center for Electronic Governance at UNU-IIST and the New York Office of UNU, held at UN Headquarters in October. See Section * for details.
We are building partnerships on Electronic Governance with UNDESA, UNDP, and UNESCAP. See Section * for details.
Open Courseware is a joint project with UNU-HQ, UNU-MERIT, UNU-WIDER, and UNU-ONY. See Section * for details.

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 Program: funded by Macao SAR Government involves a number of government and academic partners from Macao.
ICEGOV2007: took place under official patronage of Macao SAR Government, with venue, funding and support provided by various government agencies.
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 two projects partly funded by it, Integrating Methods and Tools for High Quality Software Development (HighQSoftD) and Harnessing Theories for Tool Support (HTTS).
3 conferences: were organised at premises provided at no charge by Macao Polytechnic Institute.

Other collaborative projects

Semantic Interoperability for Electronic Government: This project is a collaboration between the Center for Electronic Governance 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. See Section * for details.
UNeGov.net Initiative: This project, described in Section *, collaborates with various government, non-government and international organizations to build a Community of Practice for Electronic Governance. Established partnerships include: National IT Agency, Government of Nepal; ICT Authority, Government of Mongolia; National IT Development Agency, Government of Nigeria; and Agenda Connectividad, Government of Colombia; Canada School for Public Service, Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, New York; United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs; Asia and Pacific Training Center for ICT for Development, UNESCAP. See Section * for details.
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 *.
Tata: in India is a partner in one of our research projects and in an annual school.

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