Events

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«July 05, 2008 - August 04, 2008»
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Africa Workgroup : Telecommunications in Africa
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm

DiscoveryTel is an international telecommunications provider. Its primary service is to provide international connectivity and support services for voice and data
communications between African telecom carriers and ISPs and the rest of the world, using its own facilities in Reston, Virginia and at 60 Hudson Street, New York as well as other network components in the US and Africa.
DiscoveryTel also provides turnkey solutions to meet the satellite equipment and service requirements of its customers in Africa.
DiscoveryTel is interested in acquiring origination and termination licenses in Africa countries and in establishing in-country joint ventures.
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Brownbag Lunch on Security and Development
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:15 pm

Please join the Security and Development Workgroup for a somewhat informal conversation on issues within security and development. A number of workgroup members will be making short presentations on their work and recommendations for the field, followed by discussion amongst all present.

Some of the topics to be discussed include:

* Peacekeeping, readiness and stability operations

* Bridging the gap between development and defense

* Development and security in Darfur

* Global efforts to create an arms trade treaty

 

If you would like to join us, please contact Jeff Abramson at jeff@armscontrol.org

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07 / 10
July Chapter Event: Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Finance and Technical Assistance- The next microfinance?
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm

Governments, multilaterals, foundations, socially motivated investors, and financially motivated investors are moving into the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise area.  For many years, the development community has supported microfinance.  Microfinance has developed a series of for-profit companies and has attracted financial investors.  With the success and reach of microfinance, there has been a renewed focus on providing money and advice to the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) sector.  

The emerging market SME finance sector has required partnership approaches since its inception.  All of these funds seek to leverage the "soft" money of philanthropy and development agencies and all seek to leverage the "hard" money of development finance agencies and private financial investors.  There are a growing number of initiatives supported by development agencies, development finance agencies, foundations and institutional investors.  
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Using Smart Online Technology to Further Global Health Initiatives
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm

The International Health and Nutrition (IHN) Workgroup of the Society for International Development (SID-Washington), in cooperation with SID-Washington's Development Information Workgroup, is pleased to invite you to a brown-bag presentation entitled: Using Smart Online Technology to Further Global Health Initiatives. The Panel will address how to use online technologies to improve global health initiatives and facilitate internal operations as well as the overall challenges. In addition, it will discuss innovations in global health, such as tools to spread mission, disseminate information, and facilitate knowledge sharing and interactions online for example, tools to help people understand and report data, network, and collaborate internally.

 

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