6 Linkages with UNU, UN and other International Organisations
- During 22-24 April 1999, UNU/IIST hosted the 17th Session of the
Conference of Directors (CONDIR) meeting of UNU at UNU/IIST.
- The new UNU Financial, Budgetary, and Personnel Management System
(FBPMS), for which UNU/IIST had acted as a consultant,
was installed and tested by UNU/IIST and Tata Consultancy Service
(TCS) technical staff from 6 November
to 3 December 1999. Two UNU/IIST administrative staff members underwent
training on the new system at UNU/HQ from 15 November to 20 November 1999.
FBPMS went into official operation on 1 January 2000.
- During 15-24 March and 3-14 May 1999, Mr. Fu Guoyi and Dr.
Richard Moore delivered training courses in Baku,
Azerbaijan, under a joint effort with UNESCO HQ and the Macau UNESCO
Center. Between 5-19 September 1999, Mr. Fu Guoyi presented a course
on Creating Home Pages at the Nakhichevan Computer Centre of
Informatics Scientific and Production Incorporation in Azerbaijan.
The course costs and all of Mr. Fu Guoyi's expenses were covered by
UNESCO HQ. During a mission to UNESCO HQ on 20 September 1999,
Prof. Zhou Chaochen discussed future joint cooperation in
coordinating computer science courses in Tajikistan.
- A joint project on Educational Software and Computer Science
Curriculum Development with the UNESCO Beijing Office and
the Macau UNESCO Center has progressed. The Japanese funds-in-trust
for UNESCO/UNU provided the project with US$25,000 and UNU/IIST
contributed US$10,000. Mr. Noguchi of UNESCO Beijing Office
visited Macau in May to
finalise the project agreement. The Macau UNESCO Center has agreed to
contribute US$5,000 to this project. An agreement between the three
parties was signed on 26 May 1999 in Macau. The first 2 project
Fellows arrived at UNU/IIST on 28 May 1999 followed by 4 others on 1
November 1999.
- During Prof. Zhou Chaochen's mission to the International
Computing Center (ICC) and the International Telecommunications
Union (ITU) on 17 September 1999, both sides expressed their keen
interest in collaborating on future activities.
- In November 1999, Prof. Zhou Chaochen visited New York and
Washington. He visited
- Vietnam Ambassador, China Counsellor and
Ambassador, Portugal Ambassador, and Mozambique Ambassador to
brief them about UNU/IIST and to seek their support for
the
UNU/IIST activities; and
- the Together Foundation, the Information Technology Services
Division of UN and InfoDev, World Bank, to discuss possible cooperation in
future.
info@iist.unu.edu, 15 March 1999
