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Barbara Marie Dearth's Friends
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A great Governor and a lesser-mind President. No apology.
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Dear Lagosians, For the past few days, I have monitored the developments related to the public protest against the increase in the pump price of petrol. During that period, I have at the invitation of my colleagues in the Governor’s Forum responded to an invitation from the Presidency. My role since last Monday till date has been to find a ground of compromise that stabilizes the polity, protects our democracy and prevent any loss of lives.
Inspite of these efforts, we were not wholly successful in preventing the loss of the life of a young Nigerian, Ademola Aderinto who was sadly shot. I am truly saddened by that ugly development. While I condole with his family, I pledge the commitment of ourGovernment to bring the alleged perpetrator to justice.
I have decided to address you today in view of the very disquieting developments that occurred overnight especially the deployment of soldiers across Lagos. I have the highest respect for members of our military, especially because they have made a contract with all of us that they will willingly lay down their lives whenever it becomes necessary to do so, in order to protect us.
This covenant is instructive, because soldiers did not sign up to stop us from expressing our grievance about things that we are displeased about. It is not disputable that the citizens who have gathered in several parts of Lagos like Falomo, Ikorodu and Ojota to mention a few have largely conducted themselves peacefully, singing and dancing while they expressed their displeasure at the way that we have taken decisions that affect them.
That in my view should not offend those of us in Government. The majority of these people who represent diverse interests have not broken any law. If they have, it is my opinion that in a constitutional democracy, it is the police that has the responsibility for restoring law and order if civil protests threaten the breach of the peace. This is not justification for sending out soldiers to a gathering of unarmed citizens.
Every one of us, or at least majority of us who hold public offices danced and sang before these same people when we were seeking their votes. Why should we feel irritated when they sing and dance in protest against what we have done? For me this is not a matter for the military. The sooner we rethink and rescind this decision the better and stronger our democracy will be.
If anything, this is a most welcome transformation of our democracy in the sense that it provokes a discussion of economic policies and this inevitably may result in political debate.
I therefore urge the reconsideration of the decision to deploy soldiers and implore the President and Commander-in-Chief to direct their withdrawal from our streets, I must also emphasize that the rights of free speech and protest is not absolute.
They impose the duty not to break the law, breach the peace, endanger human life or destroy property whether public or private. They also impose the duty to respect the rights of others not to support our protest and indeed to support what we oppose.
At the end of the day, it is a contest of ideas in which the most persuasive will get the endorsement of the majority of the people we serve. I am convinced that our democracy is mature enough to accommodate this. We must do our best to ensure that it does.
God bless you all.
Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN
Governor of Lagos State
Monday, January 16, 2012
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| January 16, 2012 | 10:32 AM |
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This is life
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When you in light everything will follow you , But when you enter dark , even your own shadow will not follow you ..
that is life
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| January 9, 2012 | 3:06 PM |
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A Sad Christmas in Nigeria for Christians...
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...i still believe that peace will come to Nigeria soon. It boils down to sacrifice. Yes, vigilance is the ultimate sacrifice that we must pay. We will not adhere to it or accept it as a norm. This is not a western Country nor a cannibalistic village.
We must ask ourselves if Boko Harem is real. Is it real ? IS IT NOT TRUE THAT WESTERN EDUCATION HAS AFFECTED OUR PEACE ?
The only thing that baffles me about it all is that Boko Alarmist say Western Education is a SIN and yet evelove by an un-educated means a weapon of destruction to maim, kill and destroy without respect for who dies or is affected. I wonder if those Churches had a choice to chose what faith to follow or if a dignitary in government attended thier service. They must be a reason.
Most of my muslim friends will never support this action, so i find it hard to agree that its a religious attack. Its a an assalut on religion and the people of Nigeria and can only be handled by the government and the people of Nigeria. Before you start looking for an uprising, i believe that we have an un-attended-to war happening in the North.
I will finish thia article as soon as power is restored . . .and we still believe in Nigeria. Its what we have that we must protect. Every life counts, no matter the creed.
Akinbo.
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| December 27, 2011 | 7:34 PM |
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Cyber-crime Legislation in Nigeria: Act NOW !
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Change.org|Start an Online Petition »
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
Nigeria hasn't always been in the news for the reasons her stakeholders desire but recent events have even made the bash-Nigeria-at-the-earliest-opportunity situation worse. Unfortunately, the Internet Crime Complaint Centre's popular 2010 Internet Crime Report had Nigeria retaining its #3 position (after only the US and the UK) again.
At Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, we have answered tons of questions about why we should bother about Nigeria's position on the list since "the nations that should know better are even ahead of us in this crime", and here's some data to support our fears: Nigeria has 44 million internet users compared to the UK's 51.4 million and the US' 245 million. If we look at the global picture, 2.1% of global internet users reside in Nigeria, compared to 2.5% in the UK and 11.69% in the US.
Throw in the bandwidth (plug-and-pray), power, customer service and socio-economic limitations that Nigerian internet users face and you would expect Nigeria to be very far away from that unexalted position on the list. That gives everyone a reason to worry - and that includes those who are acting to curb the problem and those who have become experts at playing the blame game.
In partnership with Microsoft, Economic & Financial Crimes Commission and the World Bank Civil Society Program, we are implementing a social campaign that seeks to redirect the energy of young Nigerians who are involved in the shameful vice towards virtuous ideals. The project website (www.pinigeria.org/isspin) has some updates that you should see, and two other key elements of the campaign are the rehabilitation program and policy advocacy.
It is a shame that Nigeria does not have any legislation that addresses the issue of cybercrime head-on. We have followed the ongoing discussions since the establishment of the Nigerian Cybercrime Working Group and got a little excited when stakeholders gathered to discuss one of the bills at the National Assembly in 2009 but discussions don't empower any institution (where relevant ones exist, that is) to tackle challenges properly.
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Agency (Establishment, etc) Bill, sponsored by Hon. Etim Bassey, and listed as HB. 154 in the House of Assembly, and the Electronic Fraud Prohibition Bill, 2008 (SB. 185) sponsored by Senator Ayo Arise in the Senate (which missed a 3rd reading opportunity, just after committee report) already provide a foundation for what we will need.
More than at any other time in the history of Nigeria, now is the time for all stakeholders - youth, government, private sector, civil society, media, academia, etc - to ask for accelerated passage of an acceptable (firm but fair) piece of legislation.
As part of the MISSPIN campaign, we are asking Nigerians (regardless of location) to call on the leadership of the National Assembly to accelerate the passage of a much-needed bill. We hope to get at least 10,000 signatures that will then be delivered to the relevant institutions in November 2011. Please spread the word, and let's get ourselves out of this cybercrime mess!
Let's make the demand very clear: Dear honourable and distinguished members of the National Assembly, please give Nigeria cybercrime legislation NOW!
By
Gbenga Sesan.
Re-posted by
Akinbo A. A. Cornerstone
CETL, My Nigeria Online (MyNOL)
Co-Organizers of The InterNet (TiN) Fiesta in Nigeria.
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| September 25, 2011 | 11:20 AM |
| September 24, 2011 | 4:30 AM |
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1 of 112 New window Print all HIV This Week podcast on non-communicable diseases (NCD)
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Hi everyone,
The first-ever United Nations General Assembly Special Session focused on global non-communicable diseases is being held right now in New York (September 19 and 20). It is drawing attention to chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancers, and chronic respiratory disease—now the leading causes of death around the world.
HIV This Week has produced a short podcast on the lessons from HIV for other chronic diseases, based on the lead article by Rabkin and El-Sadr in issue 92. Listening to it may help you think more about the synergies and encourage you to reach out to colleagues in the chronic disease field.
You can find the podcast at our multimedia site: http://hivthisweek.unaids.org/content/multimedia
All the best,
via Cate.
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| September 20, 2011 | 11:39 AM |
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SWITCH TO .NG !
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Great Patriots,
Today, the internet brings to us memories and appraise OUR TEAM effort to survive. Now, Nigeria needs you to switch from nothing to something. Its the era of great minds like you to change whatever suffix your company, organisation, institution, government bodies, groups, etc to have the .ng added to it.
Wish to know the difference and how ? You are invited to the first ever workshop on the cctld of the nation at the Muson Centre, Agip Hall come Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 at 10amprompt.
Book your seat before the d-day. Contact 070 CALL NiRA.
www.nira.org.ng
Publicity support from a member organisation (Yomm Kinboss Limited with assistance from TRIACE CONtractors and Young Internet Professionals’ (YiPS), group initiators of My Nigeria Online (MyNOL).).
PRESS RELEASE . . .
NiRA’s FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has announced that all is set for its 4th Annual General Meeting scheduled for Thursday, September 15, 2011. The meeting which is scheduled to hold at the Function Room of The Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos shall commence at 10.00 am.
The Secretary of the Executive Board / Chief Operating Officer of NiRA, Mr. Ope Odusan, confirmed this in a Press Statement recently released to newsmen saying that the AGM is coming after enough time has been given for the public enlightenment as stipulated in NiRA’s Constitution.
According to the statement, the agenda for the 4th AGM include the receipt of the Annual Report and Financial Statement for the year ended: May 2011, together with the Auditor’s Report; receipt of a Business Plan and Budget for the period of the current financial year beginning June 1, 2011; and to consider such other business that any member properly brings before the meeting. The Secretary/COO also noted that the Special Business of the AGM is to consider the proposal to have the NIRA Financial Year changed from the month of May.
The Chief Operating Officer of the Association (NIRA) which has the responsibility of managing Nigeria’s identity on the domain name space - .ng, noted the novel development that this year’s Annual General Meeting comes hard on the heels of another event of NiRA - The Joint NITDA/NIRA Workshop scheduled for Wednesday, September 14, 2011.
With the theme, “Switch To .NG, the Workshop is a collaborative effort of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) aimed at promoting the adoption of the country’s Top Level Domain .ng, with a view to building the Nigerian internet economy. Expected participants at the Workshop are Government MDAs, Banks, Associations, Telecoms Service Provider, Networks, Faith-based Organisations, Non-governmental Organisations, Institutions of Learning, Armed Forces, Professionals and Interested members of the Public.
A wider adoption of .ng, the COO noted, will help improve Nigeria’s image on the internet space, build local content, insure content security and most importantly, arrest capital flight to Foreign Service Providers.
Speaking on why Nigerians should switch to .ng, he emphasized that one of the unique features of the nation’s country code Top Level Domain is the Ease of Use. Several choice domains are still available, Mr. Odusan stated, adding that registrations could be done online via any of its over thirty accredited registrars which are listed on the association website at http://www.nira.org.ng. He affirmed that the .ng registry has grown stronger and better and has come to stay.
Participation at the Workshop is drawn from Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies; the Private Sector, Stakeholders and the Media. Accredited Registrars of NIRA shall be on hand at the venue to assist applicants with the process of registering .ng domains.
Both the Workshop and the AGM, he reiterated, will hold at the Muson Centre on September 14 and 15, respectively. Whereas the 4th AGM will hold at the Function Room, participants at the Workshop will converge at the Agip Hall. The time of commencement for each day is 10.00 a.m.
All members of the Association (individual and corporate members, alike), he pointed, should ensure that they are in good financial standing with the Association, while directing further enquiries to the NIRA Secretariat at the 9, Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island Office or the website for an update on their membership status. Alternatively, NiRA could be reached on 070 -CALL NiRA.
The 4TH NiRA AGM is slated for 10.00 A.M at the Function Room of the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos he reiterated.
COO, 070 CALL NiRA.
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محاكمة حسني مبارك
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بدأت اليوم الأريعاء 3 أغسطس محاكمة الرئيس المصري المخلوع حسني مبارك ، وذلك عن عدة تهم أهمها قتل المتظاهرين ، وقد حضر مبارك جلسة المحاكمة وأنكر التهم المنسوبة اليه .. وتعد هذه المحاكمة بحق صفحة جديدة من صفحات التاريخ المصري
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Social Media Summit 2011
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Media plays a central role in modern societies because they represent the primary source of information and the main provider of entertainment for large numbers of people. As a result, the media make a decisive impact on the political, economic, social and cultural activities of people and institutions. They bring about new behavioral and cultural patterns. They also help to shape individual opinion, notions and beliefs.
The Social Media Summit 2011 is a response to a major demand of the general populace; the need for good governance in all types of institutions, private or public. In all countries and especially in democracies, media can play a key role in promoting good governance in the society.
This Summit is aimed at helping young people in the Media attain professional standards and practices at the managerial, editorial, production and programming levels.
It's main objective is to bring a public recognition of Media organization’s commitment to the highest professional practices and ethics, we propose to conduct a Two (2) day Summit with media experts and other seasoned professional who will provide the right tools and support for youths in media advocacy and the use of the new media for Change in Nigeria. It is our belief that this would provide the needed mileage for Youths to reach the various segments of the Nigerian and Africa Media industry.
It is within this context that, TELEIOS CONSULTINGis looking to invite Student to the Social Media Summit 2011. Youth policy makers in this field will include: broadcasters, print journalists, New media technology experts and other stakeholders in the industry.
TELEIOS CONSULTINGwith Partner Organisations hopes that the methodology and tools developed at the summit will favor and facilitate the transformation for state/privately controlled broadcast media outlets into Youth led service broadcasting media outlets. The Social Media Summit 2011 will also highlight the role of the media in Nigeria and other African countries.
We will be moving across the Nation based on a NEED and Implametation Approach. We look forward to working with everyone !
SUMMIT PROGRAM
The Social Media Summit 2011 proposes some activities, which include:
· Paper presentations from seasoned speakers and resource persons.
· Plenary sessions.
· Exhibition/Workshops & Networking sessions.
· Experience Sharing
· Live TV webcasting
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
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Social Media and the MDGs: the role of the Youth and Vision 2020
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How to use the Media Platform for Educational purposes
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How to sell information online in Nigeria
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7 ways Facebook can make you money
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8 internet business models
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International Opportunities for Young Media Experts.
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How to set up your media projects and get funding for it ( does this include community radio)
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Using Social Media to build your brand
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How to sell yourself to your audience expensively
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eLearning: Becoming a Unique personality
PROPOSED KEY SPEAKERS
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Jenifer Ehidahmen: International Poet, Journalist
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Adeola Akinremi: CEO, Media Direct
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Amb.Oguntoyinbo Stephen: CEO Talk Village International
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Dennis Isong: Expert host
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Iyabo oyawale; CEO, Ewealth ventures
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Dolapo Taiwo: COO UNOTECH Media UK
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Deola Kayode: Managing Partner Teleios Consulting
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Akinbo A. A. Cornerstone: CEO, Change Channel Communications; CETL, My Nigeria Online (MyNOL)
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Ayodele Jeremiah: Editor, Timeless Newspaper
10. Francis AnyaegbuFMP: Outbox Consulting
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PAYMENT PLAN (per participant)
Group I: Students (Post-Basic and Tertiary) - N1,000.00
Group IIa: Teachers / Administrators - N3,000.00
Group IIb: School Owners / Stakeholders - N3,000.00
Group IV: Businesses and Organisations - N3,000.00
DEADLINE
Only 200 seats are available. Deadline is one week to the Summit. Kindly make payment to:
Account Name: TEAMMASTERS GLOBAL STANDARD LIMITED
Bank: Zenith Bank Plc
Account Number: 1012533092
Scholarship for Students: SS1 - SS3
What you need to do:
Students who want to apply for scholarship should send a one page write up on "how i intend to use the Social Media Platform to change Nigeria"
Benefits:
Approved applicants would benefit from a discount on the admitance fee and a free workshop and book on "Time Management" provided by My Nigeria Online (MyNOL).
Take Note:
Applicants should ensure that they have paid to benefit from the Scholarship Drive.
CONCLUSION
Social Media has become an essential tool in our nation's development process, in promoting research and exchange of good practices, projecting the evolving platform on cross-cultural education, enhancing good governance and empowering people around the world.
The relationship between Education, Media and Governance and its influence on Democracy, Human Rights and national development is inevitably non-separable.
In the 21st century, with the emergence of modern media platform and tools, Social Media is an essential aid to development, becoming an important channel for public communication and transparency.
For Participation/Partnership/Exhibition, call
TeamMaster Limited
51 Opebi Road
Ikeja Lagos State.
Tel: +234 8094644634(Nike) ,08027167956 (Bola),07063710622 (Juliet)
Email: rotimi@nigerianschoolconference.com,nike@nigerianschoolconference.com
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Cross-posted: Instant Atlas Blog
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Here's a piece I wrote for the Instant Atlas blog -- thought I'd cross-post it for those of you following along here. Jacksonville Community Council Inc. (JCCI) began using Instant Atlas to display its Quality of Life Progress Report community indicators in September of 2009. For the first 18 months, we used the Single Map Template to show approximately 125 indicators, many of them stretching back over 25 years, in a way that was revolutionary for our community. People throughout our community, from policy-makers to grant writers to community advocates, appreciated the ease and clarity with which they could get the data they needed. On our part, we appreciated the freedom from the constraints of the printed report, allowing us to update information as soon as it was released (often beating the local newspaper to the publication of new data.)  Beginning last month, we decided to see how our community would react to seeing some of the other tools Instant Atlas has to offer. When we used the Double Map Template and began playing with the scatterplot tools, we started to see interesting (and sometimes unexpected) correlations that we could verify over time. In fact, the use of this template helped provide a definitive answer if one of our indicators truly was still a significant and useful measure today. (It was, much more than anticipated.)  If the scatterplot tool, allowing comparisons between two indicators, revealed such interesting information, we wondered what the Bubble Plot Template might show? Once we began examining relationships among four indicators at the same time, we began to see targeted opportunities for additional research and policy direction. For example, when examining high school graduation rates, we found school districts that were overperforming in relation to the social and economic conditions within the district, and other districts that were underperforming – including districts with a reputation for excellence. Suddenly, we were able to bring together useful information in a compelling visual display with the ability to reshape community conversations around priorities and policies – and the data is available for anyone in our community to check for themselves. You can see how we’re using Instant Atlas at www.jcci.org.
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Press Release: Open Indicators Consortium
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Here's the press release from the Open Indicators Consortium: June 14, 2011 From across the nation, local, regional and state data partners have collaborated with a team of 20 faculty and graduate students at one of the world’s top data visualization labs in the Open Indicators Consortium to create Weave (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment), a high performance web-based open source software platform. Weave allows users to explore, analyze, visualize and disseminate data online from any location at any time. The Open Indicator Consortium’s goal is to transform publicly available data into visually compelling and actionable indicators to inform public policy and community-based decision makers. Since 2008, the Open Indicators Consortium (OIC) has brought together technical and academic experts, data providers and data users. With its technical lead and partner the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, the OIC is soft-launching Weave 1.0 BETA in preparation for the official release of Weave 1.0 in the mid-fall. The Weave core code is being released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), and the Weave API under the Mozilla Public License (MPL v 1.1). Full documentation is available through http://www.oicweave.org. The code is available for download now at http://ivpr.github.com/Weave/. These releases provide all that is needed to implement Weave. More information can be found here.
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SA 2020 Update
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 On March 19, we completed the first phase of the SA 2020 process with a public release and written report ( available here.) It was an amazing experience as the people of San Antonio came together to reach a shared vision for the future, develop metrics (community indicators) to measure their progress, and commit to action to reach their goals. (Pictured is the December forum where the groups determined their key indicators they would like to see measured in each of the themes of the report.)
I'm reminded of what Becky Morgan, of the Morgan Family Foundation, said while introducing an indicator report they supported: In a time when our neighbors listen to elected officials or other established leaders and wonder who to believe, indicator reports serve as a civic-based tool to re-build this country’s social capital … our trust in each other, our willingness to find common vision and values, our engagement in collaborative civic work to solve problems that confront us. But most of all, they help to build a commitment to stewardship, to pass along to our children and grandchildren a country of many regions that are much improved over those left to us. Such commitment to progress is also a commitment to measure our progress … honestly and with open hearts and minds. This is the promise of the regional indicator movement in our state and our country.
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Center for Leadership and Management
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Through years of experience working with individuals and organizations around the world, MSH has learned that good leadership and effective management systems are integral elements in leading organizations to face complex challenges and produce sustainable results.
In this era of rapid change, health sector reform, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and other public health and human resource problems, strengthening and developing the leadership skills and competencies of managers in the health services organizations is critically important.
The Center for Leadership and Management (CLM) serves as the hub for MSH’s activities and expertise in the areas of leadership development, human capacity development, health financing and financial management, health systems strengthening, and health information systems.
CLM contributes to MSH’s commitment to improve health and save lives by improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of health services. Our approach is to work with
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managers at all levels to strengthen management systems including planning, human resource management, financial management, and information systems;
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individual organizations to improve the capabilities of their managers to lead and inspire teams to achieve results;
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national program managers to develop overall human and organizational capacity to coordinate multisectoral strategies for health outcomes; and
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innovative electronic technologies to reinforce our direct technical assistance in organizational development, leadership and management, and network management worldwide.
http://www.msh.org/about-us/technical-centers/center-for-leadership-and-management.cfm
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