An Overview

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An Overview
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This presentation includes

• Payson Centers initiatives in three themes
• Training, education and behavioral change
  (Technology Transfer)
• Social and economic development
• Disaster and Development Management
• Showcase ICT solutions
• Knowledge Base (Digital Libraries)
• Instructional Design (E-Class)
• Deployment LINCOS
• Philosophy Shareware and Open Source Software
  (Linux, Greenstone, TALM)

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Promoting sustainable human development through
technology and education
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In short

• An interdisciplinary center for education,
  research and service, the Payson Center is
  international in its focus.
• It is dedicated to education, bringing
  undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs in
  international development to students from the
  United States, Africa, Latin America and Asia.
• It is involved in critical research and programs
  to improve sustainable human development.
• And it is focused on using information technology
  in all those arenas to bring innovative solutions
  to global problems.

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Leadership

• Dr. William E. Bertrand, Ph.D. is Co-Director of
  the CDMHA and also director of the Payson Center
  for International Development and Technology
  Transfer at Tulane University. Dr. Bertrand has
  served as Vice President of Institutional
  Planning, Research and Innovation at Tulane
  University. He holds an endowed chair in public
  health and has served as Chair of the Department
  of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Chair and
  Founder of the Dept. of International Health. He
  has been involved in the study of disasters and
  the disaster to development continuum since the
  mid 1970s. He became one of the early users of
  information technology in the social and health
  sciences and has maintained this interest to
  date.
• Dr. Bertrand pioneered the use of microcomputers
  in Africa in the early 1980s by setting up one
  of the first computer based surveillance and
  information systems in Niger and in other Central
  African Countries.
• Based on a model he developed and pilot tested in
  the early 1980s in Bolivia Dr. Bertrand was one
  of the developers of the USAID Famine Early
  Warning System which has operated for nearly 15
  years now as an effective early warning
  information system predicting disasters in
  Africa. He has been one of the first to apply
  information technology to higher education in the
  United States and abroad. Dr. Bertrand has
  served as consultant to such organizations as the
  World Bank, USAID, the InterAmerican Development
  Bank, Kenyas Ministry of Health and the Haitian
  School of Public Health.
• In addition, he has done substantial research in
  the field of public health in Latin America and
  Africa, in areas of disease and nutritional
  surveillance, health policy and planning and the
  integration of new information technology into
  the social sector.

• Dr. Eamon M. Kelly, Ph.D. has served as a member
  of the Centers Governing Board. As a senior
  executive, former university president, and
  currently Chairman of the National Science Board
  (the governing board of the National Science
  Foundation) and Professor, Payson Center, Dr.
  Kelly has extensive policy formulation, policy
  implementation and strategic management
  experience.
• Complementing this is his substantive involvement
  in the arena of international development,
  primarily in the Americas and Africa.
• Beginning with his career as Officer-in-Charge
  for the Office of Social Development within the
  Ford Foundation, he coordinated and supervised
  innovative programs, employing analytical models,
  for the development of economically advantageous
  programs to address obstacles to social
  development.
• In 1979, Kelly joined the administration of
  Tulane as Executive Vice President, and within
  the year was appointed as interim president. In
  1981, he was chosen to serve as the 13th
  president of the university. During his tenure
  at Tulane, he was credited with leading Tulane
  into an unprecedented period of growth. Today,
  Tulane has become a leading institution for the
  study of environmental, international, and urban
  programs.
• He has served on numerous governing and advisory
  boards and has received presidential appointments
  several times to public service, the most recent
  being Chair of the National Science Board. Dr.
  Kelly is formally trained in economics. He
  received his doctoral degree in economics from
  Columbia University in 1965.

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Subject Matter Experts

• Disaster Management
• Public Health Epidemiology, Nutrition, HIV
• Social and behavioral change
• Crisis and Complex Emergencies
• Leadership and NGOs
• Local governance and political development
• Private/Public and Civil/Military Partnerships
• Information and Communication Technology
  Applications
• Real time online databases
• Digital Libraries
• Decision Support Systems
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Early Warning Systems
• Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation systems

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Comparative advantage
International Interdisciplinary Information
Technology
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• Current Initiatives
• Strategic Partners

Implementation Research Budget 4-5 MillUS a
year
Develop partnerships with developing country
institutions to enhance capacity-building in the
developing world
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Training, education and behavioral change
Achieve sustainable broad-based improvement in
peoples living conditions
Social and Economic Development
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Disaster and Development Management
Prevention, Preparedness, Mitigation, Response,
Recovery
saves lives and alleviates suffering
Reduce need for external assistance
Achieve sustainable broad-based improvement in
peoples living conditions
Social and Economic Development
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• Training, education and behavioral change

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Accomplishments in Training

• Training for Teachers for Africa IFESH
• The International Foundation for Self Help
  (IFESH) is a public-private sector initiative
  created by the late Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan
  (African summits, GM Board, Baptist)
• Teachers, school administrators and professors
  from the US spend an academic year in Africa to
  help improve the educational systems of
  sub-Saharan African countries by teaching and
  providing teacher training at elementary schools,
  secondary schools and colleges.
• Teachers are currently placed in
• Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea
  and Benin.  
• For the last 4 years the Payson Center has been
  providing training in the use of learning
  technologies to visiting IFESH teachers in Africa.

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Accomplishments in Education

• Public Health Schools Without Walls (PHSWOW)
  1992-1999
• Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
• Management of public health training programs in
  Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
• Uganda, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Zaire, Vietnam
• Intended as a highly flexible training
  initiative, the PHSWOW model encourages
  collaboration between the national university
  and/or equivalent national training institution
  and the Ministry of Health.
• The guiding principle of PHSWOW is that public
  health training is best provided through a
  combination of rigorous academic content and
  extensive supervised practical experience
  emphasizing the capacity to pursue rather than
  memorize knowledge.

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Accomplishments in Education

• Support of Public Health Schools
• Funded by USAID
• Management support of Schools of Public Health
  in
• DROC - Democratic Republic of Congo
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• 1.5millx1y

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Initiative Themes

• Training, education and behavioral change
  (Technology Transfer)
• Learning how to Learn with technology
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Organizational leadership and management in
  developing countries
• International proposal and grant writing
• Project management for public-private sector
• ICT for International Development
• Social and economic development
• Disaster and development management

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Academic programs Undergraduate, Masters and
Ph.D. in International Development

• Very popular Undergraduate, Masters (23) and
  Ph.D. (45) - moratorium
• Offered in New Orleans, Washington DC and abroad
  (sandwich) DROC - Democratic Republic of Congo,
  Rwanda, and Senegal.
• More in the works Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and La
  Paz.
• Technology-assistedutilizing e-mail, Internet,
  digital libraries, and online discussion tools
  to facilitate learning.

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Academic programs breakdown
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More in the works

• Colombia
• Master in Disaster Management
• Spring 2003 in cooperation with Universidad del
  Valle
• Cohort of 40
• Bolivia
• Certificate in Disaster Management
• Spring 2003 in cooperation with Universidad
  Andina (presence in all Andean countries)

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Work in progress

• Argentina
• Joint graduate program in conjunction with
  Universidad del Salvador and OFDA
• Panama
• Virtual Center for Disaster Prevention in the
  Americas (CEVIPREDA)
• Virtual research program oriented to motivate and
  support to the highest political and
  administrative levels of the Government of the
  Americas and national and international financial
  institutions to adopt concrete actions for
  disaster reduction in their development and
  investment projects and policies.
• In collaboration with the City of Knowledge.

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• Social and Economic Development

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Accomplishments in Social and Economic Development

• Sante' Familiale et Prevention du SIDA - Family
  Health and AIDS Prevention (FHA- SFPS)
• Provide operational research, monitoring and
  training in conjunction with John Hopkins
  University among others.
• This program received extremely high marks from
  USAID and was recently awarded a three-year
  extension.
• Project activities are carried out in Benin,
  Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote DIvoire,
  Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Togo.
• 1mill x 4years

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• Disaster and Development Management

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Framework for disaster interventions
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Disaster and Development Management Initiatives

• CERTI
• The "Linking Complex Emergency Response and
  Transition Initiative (CERTI)" is an interagency
  initiative funded in part by USAID.
• Addresses the challenges of programming
  international assistance to achieve health and
  human security within the context of increasingly
  frequent and severe conflict-related crises and
  complex emergencies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

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Disaster and Development Management Initiatives

• Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian
  Assistance (CDMHA)
• In partnership with the University of South
  Florida, the Payson Center assists in
• Training,
• Researching, and
• Facilitating civil-military cooperation.
• Assists the public-private sector in areas vital
  to disaster preparedness, mitigation and response
  in the Americas.

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Disaster Development

• Take advantage of disaster situations to
  formulate a coherent and sustainable development
  strategy (Americas).
• Only difference is time-space constraint.

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Joint research and development of applied
technologies

• Web Site and Project Management
• MITCH Impact Research
• Early Warning Systems in Central America Data
  Base
• Hand-held data collection and transmission
• LINCOS Project development
• Icon Based Digital Library (First Aid in
  Pictures)
• Integrated Information GIS-Based Prototype in
  Bolivia

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Human Security and Development

• The Journal of Human Security and Development is
  intended as an international journal, specialized
  in aspects related to the study of natural
  disasters and their impact on development.
• It will provide a medium for rapid publication of
  scientific papers on physical engineering,
  hazard, risk and damage assessment, and physical,
  social, political and economic vulnerability of
  the disaster cycle (response, recovery,
  reconstruction, mitigation, prevention and
  preparedness).

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• Partners

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Some Strategic Partners
US/China Energy and Environmental Technology
Center (EETC)
SUNO
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• Information Technology (IT)

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Showcase ICT enabled solutions

• Building and distributing a knowledge base
  (digital libraries)
• Greenstone Digital Libraries, PC-Isis
• Pedagogical principals in courseware development
  using instructional design
• E-Class
• Deployment LINCOS
• Philosophy Shareware and Open Source Software
  (Linux, Greenstone, TALM, Open Office, GIS -
  Manifold (ACT)

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• Knowledge Base

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Libraries

• Human Sustainable Development Library
• Considered one of the finest development
  libraries in existence
• 1230 publications, 160 000 pages
• English, French
• All information is contained on a single
  standalone CD-ROM
• Available via the web http//www.humanitylibraries
  .net
• This was assembled by Payson Center faculty
  member Dr. Michel Loots Global Help Projects

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Other Libraries

• Food and Nutrition Library
• Medical and Health Library
• World Environmental Library

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Digital Libraries Software

• Greenstone Digital Library software
• University of Waikato, NZ Dept. Computer Science
• Effective Efficient (MG)
• High academic recognition in digital libraries
  disciplines
• Multi lingual (english, french, spanish, chinese,
  arabic)
• Multi collections (text, pictures, audio, music,
  combination)
• Delivered WWW enabled or standalone CD-ROM

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Where it is headed to

• Open source software (GNU, Linux)
• Scalable searches across global multiple
  libraries (hosted anywhere!)
• Bibliographic functions (academic)
• Simplify End-User interface
• Update and maintenance of collections
• Local creation of digital libraries
• Education/Training
• Technical Greenstone software
• Knowledge management libraries, collections, etc.

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Library Software

• Micro CDS/ISIS
• Micro CDS/ISIS is software developed by UNESCO
  since 1985 for streamlining information
  processing activities of small libraries.
• The software was originally based on the
  Mainframe version of CDS/ISIS, started in the
  late '60s.
• From the outset, CDS/ISIS was created as a
  multi-lingual software. Thus, although UNESCO
  distributes only the English, French and Spanish
  versions of the package, user-developed versions
  exist in virtually all languages including
  Arabic, Chinese and Korean.
• Over the last sixteen years micro CDS/ISIS has
  become one of the most popular packages of its
  kind in the world over 20,000 registered copies
  of the software have been distributed
  free-of-charge (or at reproduction cost price)

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Instructional Design

• E-Class

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Audience for E-Class

• People (faculty, instructors, web designers) who
  want a user friendly, no-programming required
  method to develop basic training that can be
  posted online or distributed in a standalone CD.

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• E-Class
• TALMToolkit

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• Structure the materials into Modules and Sections
  
• Create hotwords for displaying more information
• Create a table of contents
• Publish the course to WWW or to hard drive for
  CD-ROM or Network publishing
• EClass is free download from the WWW

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Migrating Your Mediainto E-Class

• Migrate or create
• Text
• Graphics
• Audio
• Video

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Technology Assisted Learning Modules (TALM)
Toolkit

• TALM toolkit for developing courses includes
  shareware software
• E-Class and tutorials
• Image editors
• Video editors
• Sound Editors
• Office
• Internet tools resources

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E-Class

• Based on sound pedagogical principles
• WWW enabled or standalone CD-ROM content
  publishing platform
• Multi-lingual (English, French, Spanish, Russian)
• Has been used successfully by faculty and leaders
  with no previous technical background
• Examples in many different domainsand settings
• Four years of development

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Deployment

• SUMA Shareware, open source software for Supply
  Management. Has been used in every disaster in
  the Americas
• LINCOS Little Intelligent Community Centers.
  Achieves Telecenter objectives, plus pedagogical
  principals.

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ConclusionTechnology Transfer for Sustainable
Development
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Technology Transfer

• Sustainable development in a global economy
• Consumers knowledge Producers
  
  knowledge
• Consumers IT Producers IT

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• mtruill_at_tulane.edu