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• Mexico’s outgoing president, Vicente Fox, gave special recognition to @Campus Mexico, an online learning program developed with financial support from the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas, during the sixth National Week on Transparency and Quality of Public Administration, 16-20 October. @Campus Mexico has benefited 38 000 Mexican public servants to date. For more information, see Learning Online and On the Job in Mexico
  
  
• The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), with support from IDRC, organized a workshop on “Integrated Policies for Bio-innovations in Agriculture and Health in Asia” November 13-14, 2006. Additional funding for the workshop was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation (Southeast Asia Regional Office). The workshop brought together researchers, nongovernmental organizations, community-based organizations, and policymakers from countries across Asia to critically examine existing policies on bio-innovations in the region, identify existing research gaps, and recommend strategies for information sharing, learning across borders and partnering in the region. For more information: www.bioinnovationpolicies.ait.ac.th/index.html.
  
  
• Steve Song, Manager of IDRC’s Information and Communication Technologies for Development — Africa programs, was interviewed by the electronic daily ITBusiness.ca  about the importance and relevance of ICTs in developing countries.  Read the article online: www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=41083
  
  
• IDRC historian and Lakehead University professor, Ron Harpelle, spoke to Le Devoir about IDRC’s beginnings and its links to Lester B. Pearson’s internationalism.  The article appeared in a special insert of the newspaper commemorating 50 years of UN peacekeeping. 
  
  
• The OpenNet Initiative (ONI), an IDRC-supported partnership between four leading global universities (Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford, and Toronto) is the object of an October 19 article in ITBusiness.ca.  The ONI project is attempting to identify how governments use censorship and other means to create barriers on the Web.  Read the article: www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=40913
  
  
• Ronald Vernooy, Senior Program Specialist with IDRC’s Rural Poverty and Environment program, was interviewed in September by Mongolian National Broadcasting (MNB) about IDRC's work in sustainable management of natural resources in Mongolia. 

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