New initiatives for development cooperation?

Decentralized Cooperation and the New Development Cooperation Agenda: What Role for the UN?

Innovative Rural Development Initiatives

Interim Reports on work of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis receive only limited review. Views or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Institute, its National Member Organizations, or other organizations supporting the work. Image 1: A sign outside the Rosetten farm shop. Image 2: The farm shop at Rosetten.

European initiatives to promote cooperation between speech and text communities

In this paper I intend to touch a few initiatives recently promoted and carried out in Europe with the aim of strengthening the cooperation between the communities – until now mostly separated – of Spoken and Written language processing. I give some thoughts to the current state-of-the-art with respect to initiatives common to the two areas, in particular within ENABLER, ELSNET, and ELRA. Doing...

Promoting Arab and Israeli cooperation: peacebuilding through health initiatives.

This article describes a positive experience in building Arab and Israeli cooperation through health initiatives. Over the past 10 years Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian health professionals have worked together through the Canada International Scientific Exchange Program (CISEPO). In the initial project, nearly 17,000 Arab and Israeli newborn babies were tested for early detection of hearin...

Guest Editorial: NTP: New Initiatives, New Alignment

has for nearly 30 years led the effort to apply the science of toxicology to the protection of public health. In June 2007 I became the Associate Director of the NTP. I accepted this challenge with enthusiasm and pledged to a) maintain our traditional areas of strength in toxicology research and testing; b) accelerate our efforts to fulfill the goals set forth in A National Toxicology Program f...