Title: An Overview
1An Overview
2This presentation includes
- The Payson Centers initiatives
- Social and economic development
- Training, education and behavioral change
(Technology Transfer) - Disaster and development management
- Information Technology solutions
- Knowledge Base (Digital Libraries)
- Instructional Design (E-Class)
- Shareware and Open Source Software (Linux,
Greenstone, TALM, Manifold)
3Promoting sustainable human development through
technology and education
4In 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.
5Comparative advantage
International Interdisciplinary Information
Technology
6Subject 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
7Courses
- Social and economic development
- 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
- Information and communication technologies for
international development exploring the global
digital divide - Disaster and development management
8Academic 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). More in the works Buenos Aires, La
Paz and Bogotá - Technology-assisted fully utilizing e-mail, the
Internet, digital libraries, and online
discussion tools to facilitate learning.
9Academic programs breakdown
10Accomplishments 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. - 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
11Training, education and behavioral change
Achieve sustainable broad-based improvement in
peoples living conditions
Social and Economic Development
12Accomplishments 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.
13Disaster 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
14 Projects
- Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian
Assistance (CDMHA) supported by US Southern
Command - Training
- Regional and Hemispheric Disaster Preparedness
conferences - Courses and Reference material
- Joint Research and Development of Applied
Technologies - Information Systems Design and Development
- Specific surveys and assessments related to
medical disaster - Private sector involvement in preparedness and
response
15Joint 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
16Training Linkages
- 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)
17Training Linkages
- 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.
18Human 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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20Disaster 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).
21Disaster Development
- Take advantage of disaster situations to
formulate a coherent and sustainable development
strategy (Americas). - Only difference is time-space constraint.
22Framework for disaster interventions
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23IT enabled solutions
- Knowledge basesGreenstone Digital Libraries,
PC-Isis - Sound pedagogical principals for instructional
designE-Class - Shareware and open source solutions
- TALM Toolkit, Linux, Open Office, GIS Manifold
- 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 or via the web http//www.humanityli
braries.net - Created in Greenstone Digital Library software
developed by the 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)
24Technology Assisted Learning Modules (TALM)
Toolkit E-Class
- TALM toolkit for developing courses includes
shareware software - E-Class and tutorials
- Image editors
- Video editors
- Sound Editors
- Office
- Internet tools resources
25Some Strategic Partners
US/China Energy and Environmental Technology
Center (EETC)
26Leadership/Liderazgo
- 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.
27In conclusion, technology transfer is a
development strategy
- Sustainable international development in a global
economy - Consumers knowledge Producers
knowledge - Consumers IT
Producers IT