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The Institute reaches out
The IIAS is looking to the South as it develops its activities. In November, the
Institute’s Second Specialized Conference will be held in New Delhi (India) on
the theme of ‘Towards Quality Governance for Sustainable Growth and
Development’. Dr Vivek Agnihotri and his Organizing Committee have been
working energetically to ensure an interesting and dynamic conference. With the
guidance of an exceptional General Rapporteur, Ms Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi,
Minister of Public Service and Administration (South Africa), discussions and
exchanges will, of course, be lively and provocative. Mr Pan S. Kim, Professor
and Chair of Public Administration, Yonsei University (Korea) will also be one
of the active Rapporteurs. In New Delhi, the Institute looks forward to welcoming
many new participants from India and Asia.
And this reach towards the South will continue in 2003 with the Institute’s
Regional International Conference to be held in Sub-Saharan Africa, notably in
Yaoundé (Cameroon). The IIAS Director General, Dr Michael Duggett, noted
that
The 2003 IIAS event in Africa on governance will be a challenge to the Institute and its
members — a challenge to our sense of diversity, of respect and the need for a global
debate and a sense of global duty. It will also be a major challenge for Cameroon which
I know the Government there intends to meet . . .
With the support of such distinguished academics, practitioners and politicians in
Cameroon as the IIAS President, Mr Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara; the Minister
for the Public Service (Cameroon), Mr Rene Ze Nguele; and the Permanent
Secretary for Administrative Reform, Mr Léon-Bertrand Ngouo, this IIAS
regional event in Africa is certain to be productive for all who take part. The
Institute welcomes the opportunity of holding a major meeting in Africa at the
beginning of the millennium and looks forward to meeting many new participants
from this region.
The Institute’s International Association of Schools and Institutes of
Administration (IASIA) will be holding its Annual Conference in Istanbul
(Turkey) in June 2003. The theme to be debated: ‘Public Administration between
Globalization and Decentralization: Implications for Education and Training’.
The conference is being organized owing to the kind invitation of the Public
Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East (TODAIE). Mr Turkay
Ergun, the Director General, and his team are working diligently to ensure that
this event will be a meeting place, reflecting the spirit of Istanbul, where the East
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and West come together, where ideas are shared and experiences exchanged. The
General Rapporteur, Mrs Marie-Françoise Bechtel, Director of the National
School of Administration (ENA), France, will ensure the scientific preparation of
the conference. The Institute has many friends and members to welcome in this
region.
The Institute of course remains active on all continents. Beginning with North
America for example, the IIAS Director General plans to attend the Annual
Conference of the Institute of Public Administration Canada (IPAC) in Halifax
(Nova Scotia) later this year. Canada has just given its Award of Excellence for
Research to our IASIA Board of Management member, Mr Mohamed Charih.
Our congratulations! In Washington, DC, the IIAS Director General attended the
Annual Conference of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and
Administration (NASPAA) and had an opportunity to develop projects with its
Executive Director, Mr Michael Brintnall, an IIAS former President, Mr Al Zuck,
and Mr Allan Rosenbaum, the current President of IASIA.
In South America, we are very pleased that Mrs Regina Pacheco, President,
National School of Public Administration (Brazil) is one of the four Rapporteurs
of our New Delhi Conference. She will bring to life sub-topic II: ‘Towards an
Accountable, Transparent, Efficient and Honest Administration’.
In Europe our European Group of Public Administration meets regularly and
centres on topics of interest to Europe. The next Conference will be held in
Potsdam in September on the theme: ‘The European Administrative Space:
Governance in Diversity’.
And finally, the Institute is always delighted to continue its association with
the UNDESA. In New York at the UN building, in the wake of the tragic events
there in the autumn, we held a Panel for the Second Committee of the General
Assembly on 1 November. Our theme was: ‘Challenges and Changes in Public
Administration around the World’. Our speakers and topics were:
Introduction of the Theme/IIAS/Global Perspective: H.E. Mr Ignacio Pichardo
Pagaza (Mexico), Former President, IIAS and Michael Duggett, Director
General, IIAS.
The Case of Africa: Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara, President, IIAS and Minister
of Higher Education, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Continental Europe: Professor Gerard Timsit, Director, Centre of Studies and
Research on Administration, University of Paris I-Pantheon Sorbonne, France.
Public Administration in the Americas: Maria Carmen del Pardo, Professor,
Colegio de Mexico, Mexico.
The English-speaking World — Common Law Countries: Professor Andrew
Massey, Professor of Government, Director, Postgraduate Programme, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
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Public Administration in Asia: Reflections on Recent Developments: Professor
O.P. Dwivedi, Professor of Public and Environmental Administration, Department of Political Studies, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
A View from UNDESA/Conclusions: Guido Bertucci, Director, Department of
Economic and Social Affairs.
You can see a web-cast of this Panel, whose members and whose sponsors in
UNDESA we thank most sincerely, on the UNDESA website and we hope to
publish its findings. To conclude, this has been an autumn that has changed the
world and we hope to have moved as our times have moved, reaching out from
Brussels to achieve our mission.
Michael Duggett
Director General, International Institute of Administrative Sciences
Brussels, December 2001
Upcoming IIAS publications
Contact person at IIAS — Cecile Poupart
Managing Diversity in the Civil Service
IIAS–UNDESA Joint Publication, 2001. Distribution: IOS Press.
Ethics and Values in Public Administration/Ethique et valeurs dans
l’Administration publique
Panel in memory of Arturo Israel/Panel en mémoire d’Arturo Israel. Edited
by/Sous la direction de Michael Duggett, 2001. Distribution: IISA.
E-Government — Information and Communication Technologies in Public
Administration
By Gudrun Trauner, Joint Linz University/IIAS Publication, 2001. Distribution:
IIAS.
E-Government — Les techniques d’information et de communication dans l’administration publique
Par Gudrun Trauner, Publication conjointe Université de Linz/IISA, 2001.
Distribution: IISA.
E-Government — Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik in der Öffentlichen
Verwaltung
Joint Linz University/IIAS Publication, 2001. Distribution: IIAS.
Remodeler le management public pour l’efficacité, la responsabilité, la démocratie: les implications en matière de formation
Actes de la Conférence annuelle 1999 de l’AIEIA, Birmingham (Royaume-Uni),
sous la direction de l’AIEIA, 2002. Distribution: IISA.
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Renforcer la responsabilité, l’efficacité et la réponse gouvernementales: idées et
leçons pour le nouveau millénaire
Actes de la Conférence annuelle 2000 de l’AIEIA, Pékin (Chine), sous la direction d’Allan Rosenbaum, 2002. Distribution: IISA.
La conduite de l’action publique au XXIème siècle. Nouvelles logiques, nouvelles
techniques
Actes du XXVème Congrès international des Sciences administratives, 2000,
Athènes (Grèce).
Governance and Administration in the 21st Century: New Trends and New
Techniques
Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Administrative Sciences, 2000.
Athens (Greece), 2002. Distribution: IISA/IIAS.
East–West Cooperation in Public Sector Reform: Cases and Results in Central
and Eastern Europe
Edited by Frits Van Den Berg, Gyorgy Jenei and Lance Leloup, EGPA Monograph, 2002. Distribution: IOS Press.
Competency Management (provisional title)
Edited by Sylvia Horton and Annie Hondeghem, EGPA Monograph, 2002.
Distribution: IOS Press.
Governing of Networks
EGPA Yearbook 2001, Vaasa (Finland), 2002. Distribution: IOS Press.
Corruption in Central Government in Modern States/La corruption au niveau du
pouvoir central dans les Etats modernes
History of Public Administration Working Group/Groupe de Travail Histoire de
l’Administration. Edited by/sous la direction de Seppo Tiihonen, 2002. Distribution: IIAS/IISA.
Governance and Public Administration in the 21st Century: New Trends and New
Techniques. Implications for Education and Training
Proceedings of the 2001 IASIA Annual Conference, Athens (Greece), 2002.
Distribution: IIAS.
La conduite de l’action publique au XXIème siècle: Nouvelles logiques, nouvelles
techniques. Implications pour l’enseignement et la formation
Actes de la Conférence annuelle 2001 de l’AIEIA, Athènes (Grèce), 2002.
Distribution: IIAS.
Internet site
For more details concerning all of the previously mentioned activities and more,
please access our website: http://www.iiasiisa.be