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Health Technology Assessment International Secretariat

Background: The relationship between regulatory approval on the one hand and health technology assessment (HTA) and coverage on the other is receiving growing attention. Those responsible for regulatory approval, HTA, and coverage have different missions and their information requirements reflect these. There is nonetheless an increasingly popular view that improved communication and coordinati...

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Prepared by Ictsd on Behalf of the Cites Secretariat

1.1 The Secretary-General, who chaired the meeting, highlighted that decision 12.22 from the COP 12 had mandated the CITES Secretariat to convene this technical workshop in order to develop a methodology on national wildlife trade policy reviews and draft recommendations for economic incentives. He reminded participants that the workshop results would be presented to the 50 meeting of the Stand...

Conference Management System: an Online Dss for Conference Secretariat

Conference Management System (CMS) is used for efficiently managing a conference and supporting management decision-making. This paper presents a model of an Online Decision Support System (DSS) and the current status of its development. The system development process is divided into two phases. The first phase consists of online conference management, which is initially implemented for Knowled...