[Foundation-l] Re: UNESCO

Fri Apr 22 12:30:27 UTC 2005

Sj wrote:

>On 4/22/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Gerard Meijssen a écrit:
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>>>Delphine Ménard wrote:
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>>>>Thoughts?
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>>I think Aurevilly also said he had some possible connexions there.
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>Official recognition would be lovely, and fitting.  Making and
>maintaining contact with national UNESCO commissions would also be a
>useful step.
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>>>Hoi,
>>>One subject that is covered on many wikipedia's in the World Heritage
>>>Fund (also UNESCO). I have been trying for some time to get us a
>>>"partner" status with them. I am at the stage that they have
>>>acknowledged that I requested this and that they are considering it. I
>>>have made a spiel on how well covered the world heritage sites already are..
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>>>I am in favour of being a "regognised" party but I think we should try
>>>to aim for more than that. :)
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>>>As to us not getting the IFAP money, is their a motivation? I would like
>>>to learn from it.
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>>Probably the number of requests... :-)
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>Or the fact that the submitted proposal did not claim to address any
>of the three "main priorities" of this rfp.  The reviewers may not
>have bothered to read the rest.
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Hoi,
I disagree that the "main priorities" were not addressed. I do not want 
to speculate so I am interested in KNOWING the motivation. We cannot 
answer this question ourselves.
Thanks,
    GerardM