The Kids Initiative: 1st Session with Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea
Recently the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Region inaugurated a series of videoconferences called the Kids Initiative involving kids aged 10 to 13 in East Asia.
Recently the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Region inaugurated a series of videoconferences called the Kids Initiative involving kids aged 10 to 13 in East Asia.
The Australian National University’s Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government and the Asia Pacific Energy Forum collaborated to launch a series of projects on regional energy issues.
A half-day videoconference was held today on sustainable solid waste management in Asian cities.
The Asian Productivity Organization concluded a highly successful seminar on Total Quality Management (TQM) today as participants in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan wrapped up four days of lectures, discussions, site visits, and training.
The Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) is one of the remarkable success story of Japan’s overseas development assistance.
The Asian Productivity Organization (APO) today launched a four-day distance-learning-based seminar on Total Quality Management (TQM) via the Global Distance Learning Network.
The Tokyo Development Learning Center was honored to host the second meeting of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation on December 9 and 10.
The United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) used the TDLC to complete a three-day conference jointly organized with JICA-Net and PADECO on the strengthening of the volunteer probation aides program in the Philippines.
To enable discussion of the issues and challenges related to power industry privatization, the Asian Institute of Management organized a seminar via the GDLN.
Japan’s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa were the guests of honor at a reception this evening held as part of the two-day Asia-Africa Trade and Investment Conference (AATIC).
On October 29 Professor Jin Park from the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management chaired an extremely successful GDLN event which facilitated discussion between good governance and anti-corruption experts from South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Washington (World Bank), Japan, China, Mongolia, Philippines, Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia (ASEAN Secretariat).
The year 2004 marks the 50th anniversary of Japan’s international development assistance program. To commemorate this milestone both at home and abroad, the Japanese Government has planned a variety of events that began in September and will run through November 2004.
In order for developing countries to most effectively achieve poverty reduction and economic growth, Japan, a donor country of the largest magnitude and the World Bank must further strengthen their partnership.
The Tokyo Distance Learning Center is very pleased to announce a collaboration with the Asian Development Bank Institute to develop a pilot distance training program in microfinance.
The Asian Productivity Organization used the GDLN to enable its new Secretary-General Mr. Shigeo Takenaka to address participants from more than a dozen member countries at the Multi-Country Study Mission on Media and Productivity held in Bangkok.
World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn hosted a global dialogue with representatives from civil society organizations (CSOs) via the Global Development Learning Network ahead of the BankÕs Annual Meetings. Representatives from more than 30 organizations from Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Georgia, Japan, and The Netherlands took part in the conference.
The Asian Productivity Organization commenced their six-day seminar on Participatory Microcredit held September 20-26 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia with a videoconferencing session connecting the Mongolian Distance Learning Center with the TDLC in Tokyo and the Asian Institute of Management in Manila.
Students from Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) had the chance today to discuss the current state of global development with Mr. Vinay Bhargava, the World Bank’s Director of Operations and International Affairs, in a videoconference between the university and the TDLC in Tokyo.
The Global Development Learning Network connected sites in Delhi, Hanoi, United Nations University, and the Tokyo Development Learning Center today for the first pilot program of Distance Learning on Disaster and Environment Management organised by Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (GSGES), the GDLN, and the Global Open Learning Forum on Risk Education (GOLFRE).
Public Sector Technology & Management wrote about the launch of the Tokyo Development Learning Center in a July 26 story called “Japan launches regional centre of governance”.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) held a meeting of the Asia Distance Learning Project at the Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) with 13 representatives of local government across Asia.
On Thursday July 11 the TDLC hosted the first of a series of GDLN-based discussions on identifying what does, and what does not, work in tackling corruption.
The Tokyo Development Learning Center served as the launch pad today for two new publications on East Asian economics.
A discussion of the WDR04 and its implications.
The objectives of the course are to improve and enhance the knowledge and managerial skills of city officials in selected Chinese cites and enhance the training capacity of local partners, mainly the China National School of Administration (CNSA) and Guizhou Provincial Schools of Administration, through DL approaches.
Four aims of the policy dialogue.
For the second time, representatives of governments, central banks, the private sector, media, academia, civil society, and development agencies in East Asia used GDLN to discuss with World Bank counterparts the Bank’s half yearly economic review of the region.
African governments, private sector, NGOs, and academia discuss horticultural development for poverty reduction
Over a period of six months, more than one hundred accountants and auditors in eight Eastern European countries are using GDLN to work together and prepare themselves for joining the European Union on May 1, 2004.
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