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Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States - A New Frontier
by Lawrence Yeung <lawrence.yeung@undp.org>
One UNDP project has been initiated to support the countries'
transition in Eastern Europe and the CIS, to market economy and
democracy by assisting them in the access and exchange of
information between themselves and in having an open dialogue with
western industrialized nations.
For UNDP to help achieve these goals it is necessary to
install a communication network that permits the exchange of E-mail
and information among countries and with UNDP, and allows access to
information and databases that will encourage and improve the
exchange of ideas between governments, parliamentarians, academics
and change agents within the civil society worldwide.
Since some of these locations will urgently need access to
efficient data communication and office automation, the proposed
strategy is to implement the tools for this in stages. The first
will concentrate on getting the communication in place as soon as
possible while UNDP Offices are being established and the second to
install a more permanent and cost effective solution for all
countries concerned. It is intended at the initial stage that UNDP
offices will serve as electronic post offices for in-country and
external communication.
Although there has been a success with Internet email from the
UNDP office in Minsk Belarus using ADONIS through the Belarussian
Academy of Sciences and BASNET, it is important for the offices to
have a robust communications system to handle programme activities.
Unlike the 'traditional' UNDP office setup with administrative
support, the new office environment will focus only on substantive
programme work. Thus, effective information interchange among the
regional offices and with headquarters is critical. In December
1992, UNDP were given a donation in kind by Unisource Satellite
Services funded by a consortium of PTT's to establish a network of
11 VSAT's (Very Small Aperture Terminals) using the Eutelsat II
satellite launched in July. The countries which UNDP hopes to
include in the first batch of 11 are : Albania, Bulgaria, Poland,
Romania, Turkey, Ukraine and some of the countries among the
Caucasus Republics and the Baltic States. It is expected that the
first VSAT be operational at the end of the first quarter 1993.
*Chief of Operations, Division of Management Information Services, UNDP