Re: [GKD] RFI: Use of GIS in NGO Work
Re posting on the use of GIS in NGO work: A great site for this is http://www.iapad.org/ and you may find links to interesting GIS-based projects on http://www.digitaldividend.org/ Best wishes Mike Powell ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/
[GKD] Webcast: Strengthening e-Government Leadership
E-DEVELOPMENT SERVICES THEMATIC GROUP invites you to take part in a video-seminar Strengthening e-Government Leadership: The Emerging Role of the Chief Information Officer in the Public Sector on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m (EST/ Washington DC time) You can participate in Washington DC World Bank -- I Building 1850 I Street, NW Room I-1-200 or in one of the WB Country Offices: Armenia, Brazil, Ghana, India, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Russia, and Sri Lanka or by watching the Live Webcast (starting at 09:00 am EST on September 22) http://webcast-ext.worldbank.org/streaming/live.ram Program Description: This seminar is a World Bank response to the growing interest in many client countries in strengthening e-government leadership and improving ICT coordination within and across government agencies by establishing an institution of the Chief Information Officer at national, subnational and agency levels. The video-seminar will review international experience in this area and focus on several issues and country examples, such as US, Canada, Korea, Sri Lanka, Russia, India, Armenia and Brazil. The issues to be discussed are the CIO roles and competencies, national CIOs and CIO Councils, and international comparisons. The subtle balancing act among these roles, core competencies to deliver on these roles, ways to develop these competencies/modes of delivery etc as well as the important role of the CIO as the champion of e-government outsourcing to the private sector will be addressed. The fundamental differences between a traditional role of the head of Information Systems Department and the revolutionary CIO role and the resulting impact on efficiency, effectiveness and speed of e-government implementation will also be highlighted. The video-seminar will be conducted in English with a translation into Russian. The event will be recorded and summarized and all materials will be available shortly after the event on the eDevelopment Thematic Group website. Featuring: Nagy Hanna, Chair of the e-Development TG, Senior Advisor, ISGVP, World Bank Bruno Lanvin, Lead e-Government/e-Strategy Advisor, GICT, World Bank Alisoun Moore, CIO of Montgomery County, former CIO of the State of Maryland, USA Kijoo Lee, Senior Information Officer, World Bank, former Director, Ministry of Information Communication of Korea Larry Meek, Consultant, former CIO of Vancouver, Canada Oleg Byakhov, Head of Information Society Department, Ministry of ICT, Russia Tseren Tserenov, Head of Department for Corporate Management and New Economy, Ministry of Economy and Trade, Russia Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (TBC) Manju Hatthotuwa, CEO, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka R Chandrashekhar, Joint Secretary, e-Governance, Department of Information Technology, India J. Satyanarayna, Director, NISG, former State IT Secretary, Andhra Pradesh, India Rogerio Santanna, Secretary for Logistics and Information Technology, Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management and Executive Secretary of the Executive Committee on e-Government, Brazil Subhash Bhatnagar, Consultant, World Bank and Professor, IIM Ahmedabad Ernest Wilson, Associate Professor, former Director, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland Sandy Boyson, Chief Information Officer, University Of Maryland, College Park Robert H. Smith School Of Business Satish Jha, Special Advisor, Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICTs and Chairman, Digital Partners India Leonid Malkov, President, Cogitum For further information on the seminar or to be added to our mailing list, please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or contact Sally Song at 202-4739078. Visit the e-Development Services Thematic Group site at: http://www.developmentgateway.org/edevelopment ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/
Re: [GKD] RFI: Use of GIS in NGO Work
Dear Gunter, I have contacted my fellow who is running a leading GIS services providing company in Lithuania www.hnit-baltic.lt, regarding to your topic, so first of all he suggested to explore the information on those links: Environmental management: http://www.esri.com/industries/environment/business/applications.html#re s http://www.esri.com/library/fliers/pdfs/stjohnsriver.pdf http://www.conservationgis.org/aastories.html GIS for Health and Human Services http://www.esri.com/industries/health/index.html More industries/fields: http://www.esri.com/industries.html If you have more interest in those activities, I can forward your requests on your project to him and hopefully it might result into a beneficial collaboration. Kind Regards, Mantautas Jokubenas Managing Director Cmgroup / UAB MTM (Web development and IT consulting solutions) Laisves av. 77, LT-06122 Vilnius, Lithuania Tel./Fax +370 5 2742842 Mobile +370 612 08979 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cmgroup.lt http://www.mtm.lt ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/
[GKD-DOTCOM] Cyber-Security and Human Rights
Dear GKD Members, This week we would like to focus on the issue of protecting Cyber-Security while preserving human rights. ICTs make it increasingly easy to collect, store and transfer massive amounts of data virtually instantaneously. We often consider this power crucial to providing universal access to information and knowledge sharing. Yet, the benefits are not risk-free. Worldwide, there are growing concerns about misuse of this power in ways that infringe on personal privacy, data integrity and human rights. Take, by way of example: * Criminals can gain access to personal information (through keyboard loggers, for example), resulting in financial loss, and even personal identify theft. * Governments can use data against their own citizens. Rwanda is a case in point. The government wants to automate the work of the electoral commission, improving its functioning. Yet the data they want to gather includes how citizens vote in elections. This type of data gathering would clearly violate citizens' right to vote without fear of repercussions. * Encryption is a major source of controversy. Some argue people using the Internet have the right to encrypt their messages to ensure privacy. Others insist that the same encryption tools are dangerous, enabling criminals or terrorists to avoid detection. Key Questions: 1. What efforts do your projects take to protect data from misuse? 2. What solutions are effective for protecting information from human rights violations? 3. Are there cyber-security tools and techniques that are particularly important and appropriate for developing countries? 4. When gathering data, what kinds of dangers should be anticipated? What types of measures should be taken to protect individual privacy? 5. Who is responsible for taking what measures, especially when regulations are unclear? Donors? Government? NGOs? Businesses? Citizens? ISPs? 6. Where do we draw the line between individual rights and freedoms (e.g., to use encryption to protect privacy) and government responsibility to protect citizens (e.g., outlawing encryption)? 7. What concrete good practices have you observed, that we should publicize and utilize? This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For the GKD database, with past messages: http://www.GKDknowledge.org
[GKD-DOTCOM] Welcome to the GKD-DOTCOM Discussion: Cyber-Security in International Development
Dear GKD Members, Welcome to the DOT-COM discussion on Cyber-Security in International Development. We use the term cyber-security to refer to securing both data and information systems. Cyber-crime refers to violations of cyber-security with criminal intent, be it for financial, political, or social gain. Cyber-security is everyone's business. Whether a casual computer user, a network administrator or a policy maker, we are all responsible for knowing as much as we can about protecting our data and information systems. The critical challenges we face in countering violations of cyber-security are: * The global nature of security threats - a cyber-criminal can perpetrate a crime in one country while operating from another country with a different legal framework. * The virtual nature of cyber-security - no physical intrusion needs to take place. Modern ICT networks make security much more complicated than in the past. * The processing power of computers - computers improve efficiency of most activities - including criminal behavior. A few people can do great harm using the multiplier effect of computer technology. Although cyber-security is a global issue, organizations, governments and individuals in developed countries often have a clear advantage in addressing such threats. They have easier access to information about new threats, as well as the means to counter them. They have more resources available to prevent security violations. In contrast, developing countries often lack the information and resources necessary to protect themselves. Many lack the infrastructure (both physical and legal) to prosecute cyber-crimes effectively, leaving their citizens vulnerable to fraud and exploitation. Worse yet, violations of cyber-security may be more damaging to developing countries. For example, if a country is perceived (rightly or wrongly) as a source of online fraud, all companies in that country will have difficulty doing business globally. Developing countries need more effective responses at every level: from the national government and legal policy, down to individual actions to protect personal data and equipment. Wherever awareness or information is limited, cyber-criminals tend to strike. We would like to focus this discussion on recommendations for positive, concrete actions needed from government, businesses, NGOs and individuals in order to enhance cyber-security. The Agenda: Week 1 - (9/20-9/24): Cyber-security and Human Rights Week 2 - (9/27-10/1): Cyber-security and E-commerce Week 3 - (10/4-10/8): Legal Infrastructure and Cyber-terrorism Week 4 - (10/11-10/15): New threats...and security measures...on the horizon The discussion builds on a session of the DOT-COM/InterAction ICT Speaker Series (September 16, 2004) entitled Cyber-security Issues in International Development Environments. More information on the session, and presentations by the speakers, can be found at the DOT-COM Alliance web site http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/events/cybersecurity.htm ***WORLD WIDE WEB SITES FOR THE DISCUSSION*** The DOT-COM Alliance website provides information about GKD's Cyber-Security discussion, the DOT-COM/Interaction Speaker Series, and other projects using ICT to support development: http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/ The DOT-COM Archive of this discussion (as of September 20th) is available at: http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/archive.html The GKD database provides an easy way to search messages of this and other GKD discussions: http://www.GKDknowledge.org *** FOR FURTHER INFORMATION *** For further information about the DOT-COM Discussions, please contact: Barbara Fillip, DOT-COM Secretariat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For further information about the GKD List, please contact: Janice Brodman, dot-ORG, [EMAIL PROTECTED] This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For the GKD database, with past messages: http://www.GKDknowledge.org
Re: [GKD] RFI: Use of GIS in NGO Work
Try www.GISdevelopment.net. It has many case studies of usage of GIS in developing word. Ravi On September 16, 2004 Gunter Zeug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two years ago I was involved in the development of a Water ressource management system based on GIS technology. This was carried out for a small NGO, which was interested in seeing if GIS could be a useful tool for their work. Since then I am interested in the existing and potential use of GIS by NGOs (mostly in the developing world). I would like to know how geo-technology and geo-data are used or could be used to support their work. Do you already use GIS/geo-data within your projects? Did you already have good or bad experiences? Would you like to use GIS but do not know how? What kind of software do you use? Free tools, enterprise systems? Where do you get your input data from? Commercial data, freely available, field surveys? After first searches in the internet I found that there are a few things going on in the field of water management, but I think there are many more possible applications, starting with project planning, natural resource and wildlife management, conservancy, health services Do you know any journals/online publications/links where the topic of GIS use by NGOs is dealt with? ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/
