[WSIS CS-Plenary] UN News - UNDP director is now Annan's head of staff

[mclauglm at po.muohio.edu]

Under Mr. Malloch Brown's admin UNDP also signed an agreement with 
Cisco Systems to promote Netaid, an event from which Harry Belafonte 
withdrew his support, referring to it as "a trade show" that promoted 
the UN bureaucracy and Cisco rather than dealing "with the flesh and 
blood that makes up the hungry and disenfranchised of this world."

Lisa




At 2:05 PM -0200 1/4/05, carlos a. afonso wrote:
>... truly acceptable to the US: under his admin UNDP signed a broad
>"collaborative" agreement with Microsoft.
>
>--c.a.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mclauglm at po.muohio.edu
>To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
>Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:47:11 -0500
>Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UN News - UNDP director is now Annan's head
>of staff
>
>>  Thanks, Robert, for sharing this information. For those who are
>>  troubled by such things, Mr. Malloch Brown has been a key figure in
>>  the UN Global Compact, private-public partnerships (which have no
>>  mechanisms for accountability despite his frequent use of the term),
>>  and in the UN move toward market-led development. Which, I would
>>  suggest, means that all in all very little has changed. Mr. Malloch
>>  Brown is simply more acceptable to the US and other Western countries
>>  than is Mr. Rizal. If interested, see the following urls for remarks
>>  by Mr. Malloch Brown:
>>
>>  http://www.globalagendamagazine.com/2003/markmallochbrown.asp
>>
>>  http://www.europaworld.org/issue8/theuncanhelworlbus/01100.htm (The
>>  UN Can Help World Business)
>>
>>  Best wishes to all for peace in the New Year,
>>
>>  Lisa