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UNU/IIST is helped by UNESCO's interest in our work, viz.: the UniMaCS project, section 5.3.11.
UNU/IIST has temporarily suspended efforts in trying to relate to UNIDO's SME (small and medium enterprise) interest with respect to the originally UNU/IIST defined MIICI project. We are finding that we spend more resources on our attempts than might be expected in return.
UNU/IIST has likewise temporarily suspended efforts in trying to relate our WHeCCS effort to WHO's responsibilities in this area.
We refer to sections 5.4.4 and 5.4.6.
UNICC has recently been successfully restructured and is undoubtedly the UN System's most experienced unit with respect to computer and communications facility procurement and operations. It is therefore only natural for UNICC and UNU/IIST to collaborate as outlined in the above subsections.
We refer to sections 5.4.4 and 5.4.6.
UNCTAD will thus bring the work of UNU/IIST to the attention of executives and managers of enterprise associations, R&D organizations, technology policy departments, etc., in search of quality software.
UNCTAD organizes workshops and courses concerning technological capacity building policies and strategies on a multicountry/multienterprise scale.
UNU/IIST will thus assist UNCTAD in (in-depth) technical presentations on issues such as design and application of software, and attendant hardware requirements. A main concern is to describe and discuss the desirable features and characteristics of software (and hardware) for small and medium-sized undertakings, and networking requirements between them and with R&D organizations.
In late September 1995, UNU/IIST submitted a series of ten InfoDev project proposals to The World Bank [13]. We are anxiously awaiting its decisions concerning project awards. The ten proposals individually relate to most of the advanced development projects of section 5.3.
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