The initiative was received with some excitement, although it appeared to duplicate many of the functions of the Development Gateway. Indeed, Mark Fleeton, the president of the Development Gateway Foundation was invited to talk at the meeting at which the initiative was announced in Washington.
The overlap with the Development Gateway was curious in that the DG Foundation, which runs the DG portal, is a U.S. non-governmental organization which has been funded by a number of other nations, private U.S. donors, and international organizations, but without major support from USAID. After nearly a decade it has established a significant presence on the World Wide Web and recruited an large community of users.
Check out the Global Development Commons website.
I find USAID's Global Development Commons website disappointing, in that it seems merely to provides a modest amount of information about USAID's activities and a few links to its programs.
The initiative is closely identified with Administrator Fore, a Bush administration appointee who no doubt is soon to be out of office. Rumors are that the bureaucracy has not put much effort in implementing her initiative, perhaps for lack of resources allocated to it, or perhaps feeling that a new administration will probably ditch the effort in order to put the resources into its own initiatives.
The initiative is closely identified with Administrator Fore, a Bush administration appointee who no doubt is soon to be out of office. Rumors are that the bureaucracy has not put much effort in implementing her initiative, perhaps for lack of resources allocated to it, or perhaps feeling that a new administration will probably ditch the effort in order to put the resources into its own initiatives.
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