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An Overview
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This 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)

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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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Comparative advantage
International Interdisciplinary Information
Technology
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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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Courses
  • 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

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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). 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.

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Academic programs breakdown
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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.
  • 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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Training, education and behavioral change
Achieve sustainable broad-based improvement in
peoples living conditions
Social and Economic Development
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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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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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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

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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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Training 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)

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Training 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.

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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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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 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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Framework for disaster interventions
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IT 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)

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Technology 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

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Some Strategic Partners
US/China Energy and Environmental Technology
Center (EETC)
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Leadership/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.

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In conclusion, technology transfer is a
development strategy
  • Sustainable international development in a global
    economy
  • Consumers knowledge Producers

    knowledge
  • Consumers IT
    Producers IT
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