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05 November 2003

BWI reform on agenda at Financing for Development dialogues. The Financing for Development (FfD) process held its first high-level follow-up to assess progress over three days in New York, 28 - 30 October. [Bretton Woods Project]
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80pc against land ownership by foreigners - REDET. The majority of Tanzanians irrespective of social groups, gender and party affiliation do not favour foreign ownership of land and detention powers. [EarthWire RSS News Feed]
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Africa news blogs. I went looking for news-oriented blogs about Africa. Here's what I found: Africa Blog Mostly Africa Africa Pundit africa@opekiska.org Way South And, of course: Ethan Zuckerman's Weblog What else is out there?... [XDev - Extreme Development]
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Naming Names. Russell Southwood, editor of the indispensable Balancing Act newsletter, offers a challenging “reality check” for everyone working in the ICT for Development field. Those of us resident at the Berkman Center got a preview of this line of thought some months back when Russell came to the Center to give an excellent talk on myths in ICT4D. His contention, then... [XDev - Extreme Development]
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The World Bank and conflict. Given the recent discussion on the potential roles for multilateral agencies in Iraq, how does the World Bank operate in post-conflict situations? [Bretton Woods Project]
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IMF’s response to crisis “inadequate”. A new report by the IMF Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) highlights mistakes in the handling of three major financial crises in the late 1990s (Indonesia, Korea and Brazil). [Bretton Woods Project]
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Unions, NGOs react to report on services. Union and NGO commentators believe the World Development Report on services contains an underlying bias towards private provision rather than public reform. [Bretton Woods Project]
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E-Government: Why Are We Waiting?. Phase one of the e-government roll-out, which includes consolidatinginformation and existing services, then establishing a call centre andportal to allow South Africans to access this information, has been indevelopment for quite some time. Initially scheduled for launch in December2002, almost a year later, government representatives are adamant that phaseone is just around the corner. [AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom]
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The Case Against Editors. My friends at the NSW Editors' Society are going to hate this story, but Mickie Kaus comes up with an interesting take on why editors are not only ineffective in the blogosphere, they actually get in the way. He posits... [A Networked World]
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New fund to improve water resources in Africa. A special new fund is to be set up to improve desperately scarce water resources in Africa, where two thirds of the population have no access to drinking water. [EarthWire RSS News Feed]
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Plant-drug research gets shot in the arm. Local scientists' efforts to combat malaria and tuberculosis (TB) by developing new drugs from indigenous plants have just received a boost with a grant from the Innovation Fund. [EarthWire RSS News Feed]
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