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Yacine Khelladi
Economist,
international consultant
Project design, implementation, management and
evaluation.
Experience in: Information
and Communication Technologies for
Development (ICT4D), National ICT Policies
and Strategies, Digital Agendas and Broadband
Plans, Social and economic Development
policies, Access to Knowledge and
Innovation, Research Networks (NRENs), Monitoring
and Evaluation, Telecentres, Organizational
Development, Open Data, Open Government,
Community Grassroots organizations - rural
livelihoods - sustainable and Community
Ecotourism Private sector support,
ICT strategic adoption in any sector,
multilingual and multi-stakeholder
regional consultations, facilitation of participative
assessments, Knowledge Management, , Networking
Virtual communities and communities of
practice,strategic planning and sector
consultations, gender and environmental
mainstreaming and analysis, NGO
participation/engagement, events organization,
Haiti and Dominican Republic bi-national issues,
ICT's in the Caribbean, user focused evaluation
methodologies as Outcome Mapping EU
Result Oriented Monitoring, etc.
Work experience in Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina,
Algeria, Barbados, Bangladesh, Botswana, Belgium,
Belize, Benin, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic,
Dominica, El Salvador, Egypt, Ecuador, France,
Guatemala, Guyana, Grenada, Haiti, Iran, Jamaica,
Jordan, Kenya, Martinique, Malaysia, Mexico,
Mozambique, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, Rwanda, Spain,
Saudi Arabia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St
Vincent, Tunisia, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad and
Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, USA, Venezuela, Wallis and
Futuna, Zambia.
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When I started this web page in 1996
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20
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Permanent
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Executive Coordinator (volunteer)
of Fundación
Taigüey a Dominican NGO that
implements both grassroots community based projects
(community technology empowerment, cultural
production, knowledge access, non formal education
sustainable community based ecotourism, women
cooperative doing agro processing, environment,
income and gender related project) and regional
knowledge networking and communities of practice,
with support from several international development
cooperation agencies. Has
coordinated projects as: Open Data events DevCa2012, DevCa2013 and
DevCa2016
La
Cienaga Community
telecentre the Caribbean Telecentre
Alliance ACT!ivate project, the Community
Eco-Tourism in La Cienaga, the La
Cienaga agroprocesing Women's
Cooperative the regional Carisnet: Caribbean
ICT stakeholders Networking support project, and the Caribbean
ICT Virtual Community (CIVIC) moderation.
Also the Bohio: virtual
platform to promote Dominican Haitian civil
society dialogue and Kiskeya Alternative
Destination - on electronic commerce and
sustainable tourism , the CACT-Dominicanos(telecentros) and Telecentres
Haiti / HaitianTelecentres
(French / Creole)
Owner-Manager
of a small Organic Farm EL TIZNAO, south
coast of the Dominican Republic (since July 2003)
Memberships
Internet society,
Caribbean ICT Stakeholders Network CIVIC,
Associate of the UNDP Experts Network for the Area
of Democratic Governance (RS-LAC framework
contractor) –
Caribbean Open Institute (COI)
Caribbean Evaluators Networks (CEI)
Other
Virtual communities / networks
moderation-animation:
Past
institutional memberships
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1996- 12/2002: Co founder
and Project Manager for
Kalalú (Afro
Caribbean Performing Arts Research and
Training Lab )
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1997-2000 member & co-founder of Fundación Cultural Bayahonda: (Identity, culture
& development in Dominican Rep.)
Founding
member of the Somos@Telecentros
the "Latin
American and Caribbean Community Telecentres
Network" and project board comittee
member (1999-2001)
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Member and project officer of FUNREDES(1994-1998)
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Short time Consulting updates
- Team Leader Support for the development of the
Southern African Development Community Digital
Transformation Strategy (SADC-DTS), ref
SIEA-2018-8465. Diagnostic, participative strategic
planning, detailed action plan.
March -August 2022. for
the European Commission with
SAFEGE-SUEZ/Luvent consulting consortium
- Team
Leader - D-LACAD facility - Digital
Advisory Services on
Latin America and Caribbean
for the European Commission HQ, the EU
Delegations (EUDs), and EU/LAC Digital Alliance
stakeholders. Design, implementation and
evaluation of digital policies, projects and
programmes. ref SIEA-2018-1763
Part time Feb 2021 to Dec 2022
for the European Commission with
SAFEGE-SUEZ/Luvent consulting consortium
- Temporarily
led the coordination of the
global Digital for Development (D4D) hub
secretariat facilitating the Team
Europe approach and initiatives (joint
actions of European Commission, EU Members states
agencies, European Investment Bank –EIB- and non
gov stakeholder’s) in digital transformation
programmes worldwide.
September-December
2021, for the European Commission-
SAFEGE-SUEZ/Luvent consulting consortium
- Alliance for
Affordable Internet (A4AI) Regional
Coordinator for Latin America and The
Caribbean -. Digital inclusion
team, research, advocacy and organizing national
coalitions to promote the ICT policies and
regulatory reforms that will enable achieving the
UN Broadband Commission Affordability goals and
Meaningful connectivity. Coordination of national
coalition engagement for policy development work
in Guatemala and Dominican Republic, regional
digital agenda E-LAC2018 and elac2020 board.
Global research and advocacy support
Part time June 2014 - Sept 2021 for the Web Foundation :
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Team
Leader to Support for Digitalization
and Competitiveness in the Dominican Republic
to asses the level of development of digital
economy and its impact on growth and
employment in the Dominican Republic
with the focus on the digitalization strategy
and e-commerce platform design for the SME
cluster ACHADOM
August 2020 April 2021 For
TRADECOM program (European
Commission/ACP countries) project P120 via AESA
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Team
leader research on the Role of Digital
Technology for Development in Belize:
Assessment of Digital Technology’s Role in
Belize’s Private Sector, Gap Analysis and Needs
Assessment Recommendations for Government
Intervention to Promote Digital Adoption and
Digital Transformation in Belize’s Private
Sector:
August
2020 -Dec 2020 For
the Inter-American Development Bank (IaDB)
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“Sustainability
and feasibility Coach” for the ShapingAgro
hackathon, gathering
agriculture and food security experts, techies
and business people to design new
sustainable solutions to mitigate the impact
of COVID -19 on agriculture and the
country's food security -
For WEF Global Shapers - Dominican Rep. May 2020
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A4AI
technical assistance team member for
participatory design process of the universal
access sectoral policy and
strategy in
Benin and 10 month
implementation - Oct. 2019- Oct 2021.
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Coordinating
the Caribbean
School of Data training program in the
Dominican Republic supported by Google
Foundation, to create data-management
capacity and virtual employability for youth
in the digital economy, in
partnership with public Community Technology
Centres CTC attached to the vice-presidency in
Dominican Republic
May
2019 Dec 2020 For
the Caribbean Open Institute and
Google.org
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Co-organisation
of the DevCA
2019 hackaton in the Dominican Republic on smart
cites, smart communities in collaboration with
INTEC university incubator in Dominican
Republic
April May 2019 for the Caribbean Open Institute
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Digital Skills Survey Project Design for the
Compete Caribbean Partnership Facility (CCPF),
in support to Caribbean Telecommunications
Union CTU, to assess the demand and supply of digital
skills at the level of governments, private
sector, labour, academia, to meet the challenges
posed by the new digital economy. 13 countries
included.
March-June 2019 For the Inter-American Development Bank
IADB.
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Technical assistance to support the development of the Civil Society
Participation component of the Program to Support Public
Administration Reform and the Quality of Public
Services (PARAP II). Dominican Republic, for the
European Commission via Altair Asesores.
January 2019.
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Design of the e-Government aspects of the
State Reform Program (PCRE III) action plan in
Haiti –. for the European Commission via Baa
Consultors. FWC 2018/398838. October-November
2018
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Developed
the Islamic Development Bank ICT (IsDB )Sector
Policy (final
pdf result here) as basis for future IsDB
interventions in the ICT sector in general and
support other development sectors. The ICT for
Inclusive Development policy and strategy will
impact the IsDB investments
in its 57 member countries.
For the IsDB October 2018 – May 2019.
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Support to
TELCOR designing a capacity building and
training plan to promote the adoption of digital
applications by health and agriculture sector
stakeholders. Broadband for economic
development project funded by the IDB.
For the Inter-American Development Bank IADB.
June-October 2018
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Field research on young
women and IT professionals for the AYITIC
project that seeks to increase young
women's access to employment in Haiti by
building digital capacities
in the field of data management and Information
Technology.
For LACNIC, IDRC
funding. : October-November 2017
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Development and implementation of Outcome Mapping framework to monitor and
evaluate COI intervention in
the AYITIC project
For the Caribbean
Open Institute : Sept 2017 - Feb 2018s
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Support the development of a pilot on Open Data and Open contracting to
support governance and transparency pilot with
Government of Haiti and
updating country diagnostic to support the design
of a Telecommunications
and ICT strategic plan .
For the World Bank -June-July 2017
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Team leader, for the programming of the 11th EDF envelope for the
Wallis and Futuna Overseas Territory,
base on the digital
development strategy. Mission
d' Assistance technique pour la programmation de
l'enveloppe territoriale du 11ème FED à Wallis et
Futuna" Ref EuropeAid/132633/C/SER.
For the European Commission, July-November 2016.
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Consultant for Open Data Readiness Assessment
(ODRA) and stratetegy report for Haiti.
For the World Bank. June 2016.
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Training the COI
research team on the Outcome
Mapping Methodology for designing, monitoring
and evaluating regional research projects.
February 2016
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Consultant to develop Public policy
recommendations for the design of National
Broadband plans and Strategies, for the
IDB/CANTO Broadband
Infrastructure Inventory and Public Awareness in
the Caribbean (BIIPAC) project, component 4,
tranche B – (Suriname, Dominican Republic, Guyana
and Haiti) July-December 2015.
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Teal leader, final evaluation of the PITDD
program (2006-2014) that supported the National
GIS center of Haiti - Chef de la
"Mission d'évaluation finale du Programme
d'Informations Territoriales pour le Développement Durable
– PITDD Haïti" Ref.
2015/357046/1 FWC– LOT 3. for the European
Commission, May-November 2015.
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Team leader for the "Design of the Implementation Strategy and
Action Plan for a Knowledge Management System
for Barbados” in the framework
of the Human Resources Development Strategy. Hired
by ACE consultants for the European Commission.
FWC- Lot 9 2014/347-364. October 2014-May 2015.
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Judge for the Agrihack Talent Caribbean.
Its main objective is to support the development
of ICT innovations and entrepreneurship in
agriculture by young people. Organized by the CTA,
CARDI and other tech hubs. http://hackathon.ict4ag.org/
October 2014.
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Mission to assess the feasibility of a “Emergent Sustainable
City” hackaton in Santiago de
los Caballeros, second city of the Dominican
Republic. Review of the capacities, needs and data
bases systems of several public and private
organisations, related to city management, local
and central government.
Sustainable Emergent cities programme of IDB.
August 2014.
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Research: Open
Data in Education projects in Mexico and
Brasil "Early Outcomes and lesson leaned"
after one year of implementation. (using Outcome
Mapping Methodology) . For the ILDA
initiative November 2014- March 2015.
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For the Caribbean
Open InstituteSector scoping studies.
Education and Open data readiness in 5 Caribbean
countries. November 2014- March 2015.
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Support and train the CKLN members NRENS
and user on Knowledge
management, portal and content management,
communities of practice, and
other research oriented ICT application and
services on the Caribnet portal. Set
up multilayer regional user support systems for
researchers. March - September 2014.
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For the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, member of the Jury to
select a national initiative for the ATLA
award (1 million dollar grant). February
2014.
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Develop the
education Baseline Survey and setting up the
monitoring system for performance indicators on
the education provided to 310,000 Afghan Refugees
in Iran, liaising with Iran's with Ministry of
Interior Refugee organisation, Iran Ministry of
Education, UNICEF and UNHCR. Hired by FHI360 for
the UN High Commission on Refugees. November 2013
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Team Leader for the Technical Assistance project
to support the development of a knowledge
management framework and related services for
the Caribbean
Knowledge and Learning Network -
CKLN. Ref ACP CONNECT 2012/305814.
Implemented by ASTEC Global Consultancy Ltd. for
the European Commission. March-August 2013
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Coordinating the Ideathon and Hackaton
"Developing
the Caribbean" #devca2013 in the Dominican
Republic.: Open Data for Education apps
competition. For Fundación
Taiguey, Caribbean Open Institute, support from
IDRC and many government institutions as Oficina
Nacional de Estadística (ONE), el Ministerio de
Educación (MINERD) y la OPTIC (Oficina
Presidencial de TIC), la Dirección General de
Ética e Integridad Gubernamental (DGEIG), and the
Iniciativa Dominicana por una Educación de Calidad
(IDEC)
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Team Leader for the project "Strengthening the capacity of the Caribbean
Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) and
its member states for information and
knowledge sharing on sustainable management of
fisheries in the Caribbean
region" for the European Commission programme ACP
Fish II. Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados. October 2012
- March 2013
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Conduction of a education Baseline
Survey in refugee Saharawi camps in the Algerian
Sahara desert- setting up the
monitoring, capcity building and follow up with
local implementing partners using tablets and
online databases. Hired by FHI360 for the UN High
Commission on Refugees UNHCR. December 2012
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For the CEPAL / UN-ECLAC
OD4D – Open Data for Development project.:
Research to identify the potential of open data to better the quality of public
education in Dominican Republic,
engage authorities and other stakeholders, and
prepare a roadmap to implement a Open data policy,
within ministry Domincian Republic Ministry of
Education
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Facilitating participative assessment and strategic planning of
the Caribbean
Open Institute. Areas
included are Open data, Open Government Data, web 2.0
research communications and
innovative evaluation methodologies. October
2012 - June 2013
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Phase 3 of the pilot projects using innovative mobile technologies to
enhance governance and citizens
participation in participatory budgeting
process in municipalities.
Articulating the intervention of all (local and
national) government, NSAs and technological
partners. For the World
Bank Institute (WBI) ICT4Gov Program
Dominican Republic. September-december 2012
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Research/evaluation on the implementation of 4 rural development/telecentre based ICT
projects and organisation of a regional
seminar on "lessons learned,
and up scaling perspectives". For Fundación
Taiguey and European Commission CTA : ACP EU
centre for technical cooperation in agriculture.
August-Octobre 2012
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Participatory planning and capacity building
in 6 vulnerable rural communities
to insert the use of information and
communication tools (ICTs) for agricultural risk mitigation
plans. for the (FAO) Food
and Agriculture Organization. Dominican
Republic. June 2012 April 2013.
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Capacity Building to Caribbean Intermediary
Business Organisations for the strategic use of the COM4DEV platform
for Knowledge Sharing and Transfer – for the
European Commission / Centre for Development of
the enterprise Caribbean Regional. May 2012
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Review of application and fact cheeking
application of national project preselected for
the ITLA international award to
be awarded by the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation. The prize (one million dollar in cash)
was finally awarded to this projetc, the CTC
(centros tecnologicos comunitarios) of the
Dominican Republic. April 2012 .
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Coordinating the Dominican
Rep part of the regional project “Developing the Caribbean”
which included (1) seminar to sensitize public
decision makers about Open Data and Open
Government and (2) contest “code sprint” for young
developers team on Open data applications .
January February 2012 .
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Designed a strategy for decentralized e-delivery
of government services to reduce disparities in access to information and services among
rural communities in Suriname through
the use of ICTs. For the UNDP and Ministry of
Transport Communications and Tourism of Suriname.
Novembre-Decembre 2011
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Team Leader and Capacity Building Expert for the Project "Capacity
Building for ACP Intermediary Organisations
using COM4DEV for
Knowledge Sharing and Transfer – ACP/6387".
Includes Train the trainers workshops in
Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya,
Madagascar, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia,
Dominican Republic, Barbados and Fiji.
Implemented by SOGES S.p.a, for DEVCO/European
Commission and the PRO€INVEST
program of the Centre for the Development of
the Enterprise (CDE). June-September 2011
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Coordinating field implementation of pilot project to enhance citizens engagement
with the Participatory Budgeting processes in
2 municipalities of the
Dominican Republic, using Mobile SMS and web based
Crowd-mapping/crowd-sourcing applications,
trainers training at the federation of
municipalities (FEDOMU),
design and setting up municipal PB information
systems. For the World Bank
ICT4Governance program March-June 2011
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Organsing the
event TELECENTRES, BRIDGES TO AGRICULTURAL AND
RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN”
Dominican Republic, 28-29 April 2011 with the Technical
Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
(CTA)
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Set-up of the Caribbean Private Sector Observatory on
the COM4DEV
community/platform for
Intermediary Organization (IOs) and Business
Support Organizations (BSOs). Knowledge
Management, Information Processes, Add-value
Services design, Networking, Training and
mentoring of stakeholders. Hired by SOGEROM for
the PROINVEST
program, funded by the European Commission.
Decembre 2010-March 2011
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Creation and launch of the Caribbean
Open Forum that will support information exchange and
knowledge building between Caribbean
stakeholders in the 3 areas of "Open Data", "Outcome Mapping for
Monitoring & Evaluation (OMM)" and
"Communicating research for more effective
policy making “impact 2.0”).
It hosts networking and promotes regional
collaborative initiatives, towards building the
Caribbean Open Institute. Contracted by the IDRC-Canada Decembre 2010-March 2011
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Institutional Capacity Assessment (ICA) of 26
Caribbean Organisations, agencies porposed for
implementation under the EPA Implementation and
Social Development Project Identification Project
Fiches of the 10th EDF Regional Indicative Program
for CARIFORUM/CARICOM Hired by Safege/IDC/Artemis
consortium framework contractors for European
Commission (Guyana). Field
mission in Guyana, Barbados, Dominican Rep.,
Haiti, Belize and Trinidad and Tobago.
September-Decembre 2010
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Organization of the "Caribbean Telecentres Bridge to Rural
Development" contest for the Centre for Agricultural and Rural
Cooperation (CTA) (ACP-EU Cotonou
Agreement) . October 2010-March 2011
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Field assessment and design of a project to use ICT (including community radios and
cell/mobile based applications) to support
small farmers to better the
commercialisation of crops in the central border
between Haiti and Dominican Republic (Bánica,
Pedro Santana, Cerca-la-Source, Thomassique), hired by GFA
consulting for GTZ Artibonite Binational
Project August 2010
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Organisational development and strategic
planning for the creation of the Association of Arab
Research Networks partner of the EUMEDCONNECT
regional research networking project. Organizing
and facilitating the strategic planning
Workshops (Cairo Jan. 2010, Brussels March 2010,
Algiers July 2010, Rome Nov 10, 2010, and ASREN
launch event Cairo Dec 8th 2010c) and working
group coordination to ensure creation of the new
ASREN consortium. For the European
Commission EUMEDCONNECT2
project managed by DANTE
- January–Decebre 2010
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Design and set up of a project to create the Algerian
Community Technology Centers Academy:
a training center for public and private community
ICT access centers trainers facilitators and
managers. For the Ministry of ICT / Algerian Government. March–Decembre 2010
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Final external evaluation of a regional project to provide permanent
online and distance support ICT community ICT
centres / telecentre managers of all Latin
America and the Caribbean. Funded and Canadian
government agency IDRC and
implemented by CEPES of Peru.
November 2009 - February 2010
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Strengthening of the capacity of the Nature Guides Association of the
border town of Pedernales, design of binational (Haiti-Dominican
Rep) agro-eco-tourism products.
Hired by PADF (Pan American
Development Foundation) under a IDB/FOMIN project fund to
support grassroots organisation AGUINAPE. October 2009 -
January 2010
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Support the establishment of a community ICT
access enter in Port au Prince, Haiti, capacity
building of the local NGO team. For the
International Telecommunications Union ITU.
July 2010
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Team leader for the "Boosting ICTs in the
Dominican Republic" project, Support to the local Chamber of Commerce, to
build roadmap's and agendas ICT sector
competitiveness, including public-private
partnerships and building national and
Caribbean ICT private sector organizations.
Coordination of the organization of an
international event. A project supported by
BizClim, a joint
initiative of the ACP Group of States and the European Commission under
the 9th EDF. April-June 2009
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Coordinating Taigüey's multimedia content development for
youth at risk project, funded by UNESCOAugust
2009-January 2010
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For UNDP Egypt:
preparation of a project proposal and 2 concepts notes on e-waste management;
e-government services outreach through mobile
and IT clubs, and a
partnership project with spanish NGO Esplai to set
up the national telecentre academy. Field mission
in Egypt. December 2008
- January 2009
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Coordination of the
Caribbean ICT stakeholders CIVIC 2.0 event,
for the Caribean Information Society Networking
Consortium (CarISneT),
Dominican Republic, funded by IDRC November 2008
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Coordination of the Alliance of
Caribbean Telecentres support project, ACT!ivate
, for Foundation Taigüey (part time, August 2008, Dec 2009)
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Assessment of the ICT business sector in
Rwanda to input the feasibility of Loans
Guarantee mechanism. that will be set by the USAID with the local
private banks. Evaluated sector and
company profiles, financial needs, borrowing
history and capacity, market opportunities and
constraints. Hired by Chemonics
International / Crimson
Capital consortium for the USAID.
Field mission in Rwanda, June 2008
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Assessing the level of ICT based decision making in public and
private business organisations,
and delivering workshops and one-on-one meetings
informing decision makers about state-of-the-art
Information Systems as management decision support tools.
In St Kitts and Nevis, 3 short missions, for
the European Commission
funded ITTMP project, February- to May 2008
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Feasibility study and design of the ICTech programme to support
rural SMEs via Telecentre networks, to
be launched in the Islamic Development Bank
Member Countries. Design of the ICTech 2nd
generation telecentre support mechanism.
Field missions in Egypt, Uganda, and
Malaysia, October 2007 - July 2008
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Project Coordinator, Caribbean Information
Society Networking support project phase 2 (CarISnet-2), for the
Fundación Taigüey, Caribbean - Mar. 2008-May 2009
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Team leader for the Identification and
formulation of the next Regional Information
Society Programme in the Euro-Mediterranean
region. Priority areas: IS policy and dialogue,
Electronic communication regulations, R&D in
ICTS, Research and innovation networks,
E-content convergence. Working for IBM
global services for the European
Commission. Field mission in Egypt,
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Jordan.
September-January 2007.
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Technical Assistance to strengthen de Community Ecotourism Network in Southwest
of Dominican Republic, (Red
Enriquillo Ecoturismo Comunitario),
contracted by the Spanish
cooperation Araucaria Programme. June-December
2007
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Design of the methodology and implementation plan
- tender dossier "E-Business incubator project" (EU SFA 05 funds) in St Vincent and the
Grenadines. For Ikesol/Integration consulting company.
August 2007.
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Support to the Madintech/Novatech regional ICT event
(Martinique, June 1007) organization, in
particular in screening Caribbean ICT companies
candidates for CDE support,
facilitating B2B business contacts and guest
speaker at the opening event ("Building the
Caribbean ICT industry: Elements from and for a
regional perspective"). On behalf of CDE.
Martinique June 2007
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Field support for design and start up of the "Employment Capacity Building Initiative for
At-Risk Youth in the Countries of the OECS"
(), to support/develop ICT training programs in
partnership with local organisations. For the POETA
program of the Trust of the Americas of the
Organizations of American States OEA/ OAS Field mission in
Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St
Vincent and the Grenadines, St Kitts and
Nevis, St Lucia - April/May 07
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Prospective research on the strategic
perspective of the telecentre.org programme
(horizon 2010), through a consultation of key
social investors, stakeholders and developing
world partners. For the for
the International
Development Research Centre
Dec.-06-Jan07
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Research Analyst Monograph research: indicators of the collective access to ICTs,
public Telecentres review, for the Dominican Rep National
Statistics Office Jan-October 2007
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Technical assistance for feasibility study and
drafting of financial proposal: “Use of Information and Communication Technology for
Improving Education, Diversification and
Competitiveness (ICT4EDC) in
St. Kitts and Nevis” Main expert. European
Commission EDF funding / IBF consortium / Baa
consultores. (May-September 2006).
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General Coordination and organisation of the
first Caribbean Community Telecentres Workshop. Santo Domingo July 20-22,
2006 (for Fund. Taiguey) and follow task force for
the design of a regional project (June-August 06)
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Workshop facilitator on “governance and ICT for municipal and local
government”. Eleventh
Inter-American Conference
of Mayors and Local Authorities", June 2006,
for the Inter American Foundation. see
Introduction presentation (in spanish)
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Coordinator to set up of a task force of ICT intermediary organisations
(chambers of commerce,
investment promotion, professional associations) in the Caribbean region . (PWC- For
Pro€invest/CDE) January 2006
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Senior Regional Coordinator for the
Caribbean
Novatech2005 project for promoting
investment in the ICT sector in the Caribbean". Includes regional sectoral studies,
investment opportunities identification and
proposal development, and a regional partnership
meeting. Implemented by a
PriceWaterhouseCoopers-France led consortium,
for Pro-invest/CDE and funded by the European
Commission. (March-November 2006)
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CarISnet Project
Coordinator : Caribbean Information Society
Networking support project. (for Fund.
Taiguey).2004-2007
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BOHIO
Project Coordinator : virtual platform to
establish a dialogue between Dominican and Haitian
Civil society organisations and development
agencies. (for Fund. Taiguey).
2004-2007.
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“Feasibility Study for the implementation of the
CARICOM / CARIFORUM Action Plan to support
regional integration (CSME) under
Caribbean Regional Indicative Programme " funded
by the European Commission and awarded to WM
Global Partners-ECF S.p.A. Organisational
Development Expert - Nov-04/Feb-05.
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"Lessons learned" study of the UNDP/PPS project to support the ecotourism
community project of "Sonido del Yaque
- Los Calabazos" in Jarabacoa province of
the Dominican Republic. October-04
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ICT4D / IS Expert Feasibility Study for an
ICT Program for ACP Countries. Trigrammic CC
-South Africa) EUROPEAN COMMISSION Aug-Sept. 04
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"Feasibility study: the future of the ICT
regulatory and institutional framework and
establishment and development of the
Information Society in the Caribbean".
ICT
expert and Team Leader -
Contracted by Schlumberger Sema/ Eurostrategies
for the European Commision. March/June 2004
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Community Outreach Specialist of the PADECO (Japan.) / AED (USA) team - Technical
assistance to the Government of Jamaica
for the IDB
funded ICT project. , Kingston, Jamaica,
July 29th - October, 28th 2003.
-
Diagnostic and Design of Community
Ecotourism Development Plan for the Lakes Area
- For
the bi-national "Transborder Environmental
Program" (Programme Environnemental
Transfrontalier / Programa Medioambiental
Transfronterizo): - on both sides of the
Dominican-Haitian border, a project implemented
by The Ministry of Agriculture of Haiti and the
Ministry of Environment of the Dominican
Republic, with the support of the European Union
- Caribbean Environmental Program. (March-August
2003)
-
Volunteer moderation of the Caribbean
ICT stakeholders Virtual Community (CIVIC) March
2003 - May 2005
-
Setting up the Caribbean
ICT stakeholders Virtual Community (CIVIC) and
Coordination its Thematic Working Groups for the
development a Regional ICT action plan. For the
Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (ICA).
(January-March 2003)
-
For the Institute for
the Connectivity in The Americas (ICA): : coordinating
the organization of the ICT
Caribbean roundtable / ICA-ITU
consultation in Barbados (October 28-30, 2002)
and identifying/consulting ICT4Dev
stakeholders in Central America.
(June-November 2002)
-
Assessing Dominican Republic public ICT policies
social impact, For the Latin American ICT
Observatory (OLISTICA)
project of Funredes-
June- December 2002
-
Advisor and researcher for a regional pilot
project on ICT (information and communication
technologies) in non formal and formal education
in rural areas “Navegantes” coordinated by Raices
Magicas (Colombia) and founded by IDRC ; ( January
2002 Dec 2003) http://yacine.net/pub/raices-magicas
-
Coordinating Kalalu's
integral intervention in
Los Mercedes (Dominican Rep.), a poor
rural community : including community informatics
program for youth and women, environment
preservation and organic agriculture, education
and literacy program, identity and cultural
expression workshop (facilitator for web
workshop). (June 2001 - Dec ember
2002)
-
Member of the "Evaltica"
task force: building
a ICT evaluation framework for the
International Development Research Center (IDRC)
and partners (November –2000 - November 2001):
also see a draft
paper here
-
Project promotion and participatory design of the
BOHIO Project: Information System and
Virtual Community for the Dominican and Haitian
civil society and development organizations
cooperation (http://funredes.org/bohio)
with Kalalú, Funredes, and Graph.
(2001-2002)
-
Evaluating Consultant of the "Capacity
Development for Internet Use in Latin America
and the Caribbean" - a program of the International
Development Research Center - IDRC, Canada.
January 1999 - December 2001 : See final
report and lessons learned here
-
Case Study of the Infocentros
network of telecenters
and franchise model in El Salvador, for theWorld Resources
Institute, Digital
Dividend project, towards the G8 Dot Force
meeting of July 2001. (Executive
Summary here) April 2001. Full paper at http://yacine.net/pub/InfocentrosFinal.pdf
-
Member of a coordination group for an IDB (Interamerican Development
Bank) regional
project formulation on IT and rural development
(June 2001)
-
Training workshop: Information Technologies
for Alternative Communication and Community
Radios, with SAKS, Port au Prince Haiti.
February 2001:
-
Coordination and implementation of several
projects for Fundación Cultural Bayahonda and
Kalalú-Danza, in the culture, identity &
development area, including, community work
(animation and education), cultural activities,
research programs, events organization,
etc. (1996-2001), Facilitator of community
workshops using the Web and ICTs for cultural
identity and social creativity as for Batey 6 and Los
Mercedes
-
Informal debate at the Algerian
presidency: establishing a National
Information Technology Strategy and Action Plan.
(January 2001)
-
Presentation of research findings at the
Algerian Economic Reform and State Participation "ICTs
for privatization promotion and foreign
investment attraction". See
summary here (January 2001):
-
Assessment, curriculum development, Internet use
systematization and community trainers training,
for the Center
for Alternative Rural Alternative (telecentre)
of El Limón de Ocoa (Dominican Republic).
Support from Inter American Foundation. Starting
November 2000 -
-
Member of the advisory board of the "Latin
American and Caribbean Community Telecentres
project" TELELAC project of CHASQUINET. Starting
January 2000 - December 2002
-
Launching and moderation of "SALSA"
multilingual forum on cultural issues in the
Caribbean . Moderator Since May 2000:
-
As an external consultant for the Networks and
Development Foundation (FUNREDES) work on
several projects as "Social Impact of
Information Technologies in Latin America –(Mistica)"
"Caribbean Integration Through Information
Technologies (Caritic)",
"Caribbean Culture Network (SALSA)";
December 1998, April and December 1999 - February
2000 - May 2000
-
In Haiti: Consultant for the Haitian
Research and Development Network
(May 1998- Feb. 1999) End user training
& support organization; content development
and network animation; local staff training;
Information Technologies applications for
development projects with NGOs. special projects
TIC application to developmental tasks
-
Trainer at the Transfer
FFTI Workshop in Port au Prince Haiti.
(November 1998)
-
Seminar content coordination on Information
Technologies for Rural Development &
Community Media (for SAKS (NGO Haiti) and TDG
(Canada), port au Prince Haiti - May 1998
-
Consultant for KLZ consulting firm
(Algeria/Spain) - Sept. 1997- February 1998
-
Research: The State of the Art in
Finance and Investment applications on the
Internet
-
Project design: Foreign Investment
attraction and privatization promotion
through the Internet (confidential
documents) See
Executive Summary here
-
Research coordinator: Creativity in Santo
Domingo Carnival (for Kalalú-Danza)
Feb. / March 1998:
-
Executive production staff for the Bayahonda Cultural
Foundation of the 1st Festival
for the Island (Dominican Rep / Haiti
25-29 March 1998)
and 5th "Artistas por el Gaga"
for
activities prior to this date (and they're few!)
please ask for my full CV
Events and conferences (not
updated since 2008)
November 26-28, 2008 in
Montevideo, Uruguay .Participant at the workshop
IDRC CEA/ICA All-Partners' Meeting, Presented CarISnet org 2.0 video:
November 24th 2008Barbados
Speaker at the 1st CARIFORUM/EU Business Forum,
(presented building
the Caribbean ICT sector)
November 14th 2008, Santo
domingo, Organized the "Dialogue and collaboration
venues for construction of the Caribbean
Information Society " at UNIBE university and
presented "CIVIC
and org 2.0 before the web 2.0"
Organizer of the CIVIC
2.0 event, CarISneT Consortium, Juan
Dolio Dominican Republic, November 2008 12-15
Dakar Senegal: September 26-30
2008, participant in the Gender and
Agriculture/Rural Development in the Information
Society (GenARDIS) workshop, Organized by APC
women network, IDRC and CTA.
Barcelona, Spain, 22-24
september, participant in the global telecentres
academy workshop, organized by by Foundation
Esplai.
Port au Prince Haiti, 29-30 May
2008, ICT for regional integration and development
: 1er Sommet des APPLICATIONS des NTIC au service
du développement de la région Caribéenne,
organized by the State University of Haiti
(Faculté des Sciences de l’UEH)
Lima, Peru, March 2008, workshop
for the telecentres operators helpdesk, organized
by CEPES.
Kinsgton, Jamaica, March 2008,
speaker at the Jamaica Community Multimedia Centre
Conference organized by MEMT/UNESCO/ICT4D Jamaica
Kuala Lumpur, Maysia, Dec 2007,
particpant in the Global Knowledge 3 evant and the
Telcentre Leaders Forum.
Martinique June 2007 Madintech/Novatech regional ICT
event
guest speaker at the opening event
("Building the Caribbean ICT industry: Elements
from and for a regional perspective"). On behalf
of CDE.
(missing
few here)
July 20-22, 2006 General
Coordination and organisation
of the first Caribbean
Community Telecentres Workshop. Boca Chica,
Rep Dominicana.
21 June 2006 Workshop
facilitator on
“governance and ICT for municipal and local
governements ” Eleventh Inter-American
Conference
of Mayors and Local Authorities", , for the
Inter American Foundation. Introductory
presentation (in spanish).
Miami, USA.
April 21st-23rd, 2006 Participant
Conference on Access to Knowledge, on , at
Yale Law School. Information Society Project at
Yale Law School. Yale, USA.
2 y 3 de febrero 2006. Participant
Taller de validacion de --dominicana
e la Comisión Nacional para
la Sociedad de la Información para que la
República Dominicana. Santo Domingo. Rep
Dominicana.
19-21 de febrero de 2006. Participant
Taller Telecentros para la "metodologia
ACTA
del BID para sostenibilidad de Telecentros"
Puerto Plata. Rep Dominicana.
May 8-10 2003.Main
facilitator Ecotourismo en las zona de los lagos
/ ecotourisme dans la zone des lacs.
Principal facilitator - Programme Environnemental
Transfrontalier / Programa Medioambiental
Transfronterizo. Foret des Pins, Haiti.
4 de Abril 2006 Presentación: del
proyecto BOHIO en la Feria Binacional de
Dajabon., Rep dominicana
18 de abril 2006 co-organizador,
encuentro de organizaciones de la sociedad civil
interesadas en la formación de una red binacional
dominico-haitiana de la sociedad civil. Casa San
Pablo, Santo Domingo. Rep Dominicana.
5-7 December 05. Participant
and speaker..CARDICIS.
Presented the Mapping
regional ICT project in the Caribbean. Juan
Dolio Domincan Republic.
29-30 Nov 2005. Participant.
Regional ICT4D consultation
Consulta Regional de Expertos en TIC y Desarrollo del Programa Pan Américas del CIID
(IDRC/PAN/ICA). Montevideo, Uruguay.
25-27 October 2005. Senior Regional
Coordinator. Novatech2005
Investment conference "promoting investment in the
ICT sector in the Caribbean". Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
July-Septembre 2005. Main Facilitator.
One day workshops with ICT companies and
entreprises in preparation of Novatech2005.
in:
- Surinam (with KKF the
local Chamber of Commerce)
- Guyana (with the
investement promotion agency Go-Invest)
- Domincan Republic (with 4
ministries and many intermediary
organisations)
- Haiti (with the Haitian
ICT entreprise Association AHTIC)
25-27 February 2005 Participant
Taller de las Américas - Planificación de
Productos y Servicios
de la Red de Apoyo a Telecentros.
Telecentre Support Network Product and
Services Planning – Americas Workshop. Vancouver,
Canada.
Dec 04 - Main
Facilitator first bonational BOHIO
meeting between Dominican and Haitian Civil
society organisations and development agencies.
(for Fund. Taiguey) Barahona
(missing few here)
June 2004 - Main
Facilitator 2 day
"logframe" or logical framework in Guyana for the
Feasibility
study: the future of the ICT regulatory and
institutional framework and establishment and
development of the Information Society in the
Caribbean". ICT
expert and Team Leader - for the
European Commision. rproject
(missing some here)
May 13-16 2003 Participant
"TICs
al Servicio del
Desarrollo Humano en Centro América" , San
Salvador. co-organized by OEA, ICA, IDB, AID, AED,
UNDP,
April 1-2, 2003 Participant
Actores sociales en el Caribe y el derecho a la
comunicación en la Sociedad de la Información. WACC
Caribbean workshop. Port of Spain, Trinidad
and Tobago.
March 5-7 2003:Participant
Turismo rural y ecoturismo como complemento de Sol
y Playa . . Secretaría de Turismo de Rep
Dominicana. Santo Domingo. Dominican
Republic.
January 8, 2003 "Socinfodo" Speaker
Reunión de información/reflexión para la
sociedad civil CMSI/WSIS RD. Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic,
9-11 December. Speaker.
2002 Symposium
international « les technologies de
l’information et de la communication et la société
de l’information: Enjeux et perspectives ». Alger
Algeria. Presented 10 enseignements sur les
Télécentres en Amérique Latine
October 28-30, 2002 General coordinator First
ICT
Caribbean roundtable - an ICA/ITU
consultation in Barbados
September 14-18 2002. Participant Reunión
de Consulta Regional consulta regional con vistas
a la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la
Información (Ginebra, diciembre 2003) , bajo el título: “Foro Internacional: América Latina y el
Caribe en la Sociedad de la Información”.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March 17-24 2002 :Participant
"Apropiación de tecnologías de la información y
comunicación en América Latina" Encuentro de
Experiencias y Taller Internacional, Lima &
Cajamarca, Peru. Oganized
by ITDG Peru.
April 2002 Co-organization
and speaker
Bohio Project
information meetings in Santo Domingo and Port au
Prince.
January / Enero, Workshop
instructor. 27-30
2002: Taller del proyecto "Pensar el uso de la
Internet en la educaicación formal y no formal en
America LAtina y el Caribe" - Ocaña, Colombia.
December 6th and 7th, 2001 Participant.
Meeting of G-15 Experts on
Science & Technology, Caracas,
Venezuela.
November 26-29, 2001: Participant.
Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council
workshop in Belize city. Belize.
Junio 14-16 2001 :Participant.
Taller "Las
Tecnologías de la
Información y el Desarrollo Local en
Centroamérica y el Caribe" Banco
Intermaericano de Desarrollo, Managua, Nicaragua:
Documento presentado: Recomendaciones (a gobiernos y agencias)
para el diseño e implementación de proyectos
nacionales o regionales de apoyo o promoción
de telecentros .
28 de Mayo al 02 de Junio
2001: Participant. IV
Taller sobre Tecnologia de Redes Internet para
America Latina y el Caribe Taller
5 Internet y Sociedad, Merida,
Venezuela.
1-3 March 2001 Participant. Second
Regional Meeting of the MISTICA network
(Information Technologies Sopcial Impact), Santo
Domingo, Dominican Rep.
February 2001: Main
Instructor Workshop:
Information Technologies, Alternative
Comunications, Community Radios and Rural
Development, with SAKS, Port au Prince Haiti.
January 2001:
December 12-17 2000. Participant
"EVALTICA Workshop" : building
a ICT evaluation framework for IDRC and partners,
Heredia, Costa Rica.
November 17-19, 2000 Participant
Ecotourism & Sustainable Tourism Certification
Workshop, , sponsored by the Institute for
Policy Studies, with the support of the Ford
Foundation, Mohonk Mountain Center, New York USA
September 25-29 2000 Participant
Recapitulemos (rechapter):
workshop of Pan American
Networking program of the International
Development Research Center - IDRC, Picton,
Ontario Canada.
September 22-24 2000Participant
"Mixed
Media / Medios
Enteros:" Community radios and the Internet, Tampa
Florida.USA
August 25 - 27, 2000 Participant
Caribbean and Western Atlantic Association of
Marine & Aquatic Educators Workshop &
Conference, Cayman Brac Island.
July 20-22 2000 co-organization of
the Ecotourism
Conference In The Dominican Republic Hacienda
Muriel, Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic.
March 25-31 2000 Participant
Coordination Workshop for the "Latin American
and Caribbean Telecenter Network: Sharing
lessons learned and strengthening its action for
civil society" TELELAC project of CHASQUINET
March 16-18, 2000 Latin American
Studies Association conference, LASA 2000 in
Miami USA . Panel Tourism, Communities
And Environments In Latin America And The
Caribbean (note: my paper was accepted but could
not attend due to lack of financial support)
February 3-4 2000: Participant
Euro-Latin American Information Society Initiative
(EUROLAT-IS) Workshop in Antigua, Guatemala "E-commerce
and new ways of working"
November 30th December 3rd 1999:
Participant
Workshop"Constructing a National Agenda for
Ecotourism in Dominican Republic" with
C.A.D. (Consorcio Ambiental Dominicano) and
Rare - Center for Tropical Conservation -
Jarabacoa Dominican Republic.
4-6 October 1999:Participant
International
Workshop on Electronic Commerce and Sustainable
Tourism in the Americas, Universidad
Tecnológica
Equinoccial
Quito, Ecuador. by the Research Consortium on
Electronic Commerce and Sustainable Tourism,
support from IDRC.
Sept. 31 -October 1 1999. Participant
Reunion Latinoamericana y Caribeña, Red de
Telecentros, Far Hills, Quebec
September 28 - October 1, 1999 Participant
Working Session on Telecentre Evaluation: A Global
Perspective, PAN
Networking Program, IDRC/CRDI in Far Hills,
Quebec
Sept. 10-12 1999 speaker International
Conference on Sustainable Development,
Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada, paper presented "Une
perspective de l ’écotourisme, la République
Dominicaine (et Haïti)"
June 27 1999: Workshop with
community environmental associations on ecotourism
and the Kiskeya Alternativa project, Sabana de la
Mar, Dominican Republic
April 1999: Participant
Regional Meeting on the Social
Impact of Information Technologies in Latin
America and the Caribbean - Samana,
Dominican Republic.
November 1998: Trainer
at the Transfer
FFTI Workshop in Port au Prince Haiti.
15-16 July 1998:Participant
Infodev - World Bank
Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
July 1998:Participant
WALC 98
Internet summit, Latin American and Caribbean
Networks - Meeting, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
May 1998: Main Facilitator
on Information
Technologies for Rural Development &
Community Media (for SAKS (NGO Haiti) and TDG
(Canada), port au Prince Haiti.
Note:
other workshops and traning that I facilitated
prior
to
this date are not listed here
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