Hi all, Just saw this article 'World Bank punts e-development' in the Digital opportunity Channel at http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/122060/1/ What captured my attention was: "The World Bank is the largest international donor in the field of ICT for development, with ICT projects in more than 80 countries and an overall portfolio amounting to more than US$3 billion (R19 billion). Part of these funds is spent specifically on e-government initiatives.
"An increasing number of countries are receiving World Bank support for ICT components in traditional investment projects and to design e-government applications and integrated, large-scale e-development projects. These include e-Sri Lanka, e-Bharat in India, e-Ghana, the Vietnam ICT Development project, and the ICT Sector Development Project in Tunisia," says Mohsen Khalil, director of the World Bank Group's global ICT department" Since DDN's mission is global and worldwide, I think, the worldbank can support the noble mission of of the network. What do you all think? I do not have much experience about the type of projects that the worldback supports, but I thought, I would learn from the exchange of ideas that may happen if I post it on the list. Regards, Jay -- Jay Bhatt Information Services Consultant (Engineering) Hagerty Library, Drexel University TEL 215-895-1873 AOL IM jaybhatt59 YAHOO IM jay_bhatt_98 FAX 215-895-2070 EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineering Resources Blog: http://englibrary.blogspot.com Jay's Information Initiatives in India community on the Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/InformationIndia Jay's blog on the Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/jaybhatt Jay's Journal on LISNews http://www.lisnews.com/%7EJay/journal _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
