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["Vikas Nath" <vikas.nath AT undp.org>]

Dear Colleagues,

We invite your participation in the e-discussion forum "Match or Mismatch?: Global Reports and Global Policy Challenges" to be held on the global public goods Network (gpgNet) platform from 26 April to 10 May 2004.

 

Global reports are defined as: studies that present and analyze issues of global concern and reach. Examples of global reports include the World Communication and Information Report (UNESCO), the World Telecommunications Report (ITU), the World Education Report (UNESCO), the Human Rights Watch World Report, and the SIPRI yearbook on Armanents, Disarmament and International Security.

 

Looking at global reports over time gives us a sense of the various issues that have captured sufficient attention from policy makers and civil society to justify the effort to produce and diffuse a global report. A recently released study shows that not only has the number of global reports increased, the range of issue areas addressed has grown too.  One way to interpret the growth in the number and widening range of issues covered by Global Reports is to suggest that this growth in global reporting reflects the fact that an increasing range of Global challenges has emerged.

 

 

The point up for debate is: Has there been a match or a mismatch between the two?

To the extent that global reports influence (and are influenced by) policymaking, addressing this question would contribute to giving us a better sense of where the world is headed, where the shortcomings and problems lie, where progress is being made and what needs to be done to ensure a better future. Read the complete background paper at http://www.gpgnet.net/topic06.php 

 

 

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Join us for this debate and share with us -and the global public- your observations on this topic.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Inge Kaul
Director
Office of Development Studies

 

Vikas Nath
Manager, global public goods Network (gpgNet) Forum

 

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26 April to 10 May 2004: e-discussion forum "Match or Mismatch?: Global Reports and Global Policy Challenges."

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