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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Permanent jobs/positions
- For the Web
Foundation : Regional Coordinator - Latin
America and The Caribbean - Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI). Digital inclusion team Part time position
since June 2014. Research, advocacy and organizing national
coalitions to promote the ICT policies and regulatory reforms that will
enable achieving the UN Broadband Commission Affordability goals.
Coordination of national coalition engagement for policy development work in
Guatemala and Dominican Republic. Regional research and advocacy.
- 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
- 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)
- Member
and project officer of FUNREDES(1994-1998)
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Short time Consulting updates
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Team Leader D-LACAD facility Latin America and Caribbean Digital Advisory Services and thematic support to the European Commission headquarters in Brussels,LAC EU Delegations (EUDs), and EU/LAC Digital Alliance stakeholders, for the design, implementation and evaluation of digital policies, projects and programmes. ref SIEA-2018-1763 Feb 2021-Dec 2022 (part time over 2 years) for the European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships INPTA (ex DEVCO) with SAFEGE-SUEZ/Luvent consulting consortium
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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 - TRDECOM program (European Commission/ACP countries) project P120 via AESA - August 2020 April 2021
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Team leader reserach 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: Inter-American Development Bank (IaDB) August 2020 -Dec 2020
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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 assitance team member for participatory design process of the universal access sectoral policy and strategy in Benin and 10 month simplementation - Oct. 2019- ongoing 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 for the Caribbean Open Institute l May 2019 Dec 2020
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 for the Caribbean Open Institute April May 2019
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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. For the Inter-American
Development Bank IADB.
March-June 2019
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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.
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
funds. : October-November 2017
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For
the Caribbean Open
Institute : Development and implementation of Outcome
Mapping framework to monitor and evaluate COI intervention in the AYITIC project Sept 2017 -
Feb 2018s
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For
the World Bank - 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 . 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 in 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.
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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)
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Volunteer
moderation of the Caribbean
ICT stakeholders Virtual Community (CIVIC) March 2003 - May 2005
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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)
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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)
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Assessing
Dominican Republic public ICT policies social impact, For the Latin
American ICT Observatory (OLISTICA) project of Funredes- June- December 2002
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Member
of a coordination group for an IDB (Interamerican Development Bank) regional
project formulation on IT and rural development (June 2001)
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Training
workshop: Information Technologies for Alternative Communication and
Community Radios, with SAKS, Port au Prince Haiti. February
2001:
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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
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Informal
debate at the Algerian presidency: establishing a National Information Technology
Strategy and Action Plan. (January 2001)
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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):
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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 -
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Member
of the advisory board of the
"Latin American and
Caribbean Community Telecentres project" TELELAC project of CHASQUINET. Starting January 2000 -
December 2002
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Launching
and moderation of "SALSA"
multilingual forum on cultural issues in the Caribbean . Moderator
Since May 2000:
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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
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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
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Trainer at the Transfer FFTI Workshop in
Port au Prince Haiti. (November 1998)
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Seminar content coordination
on Information
Technologies for Rural Development & Community Media (for SAKS
(NGO Haiti) and TDG (Canada), port au
Prince Haiti - May 1998
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Consultant for KLZ consulting
firm (Algeria/Spain) - Sept. 1997- February 1998
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Research: The State of
the Art in Finance and Investment applications on the Internet
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Project design: Foreign
Investment attraction and privatization promotion through the Internet (confidential
documents) See Executive Summary here
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Research coordinator: Creativity
in Santo Domingo Carnival (for Kalalú-Danza) Feb. / March 1998:
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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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