Tulane Institute for International Development Invites you to a Seminar on:
Speaker(s): Dr. Nagy Hanna, World Bank
Materials:
Unfortunately, there is no audio to the seminar.
About the Speaker:
Dr Nagy Hanna (Ph.D. Wharton School, U.Penn) is the Principal Corporate Planning Officer, Corporate Strategy & Planning and Budgeting, the World Bank. Before taking up his present position he served as the Principal Economist, Asia Technical Department, and Chief Staff Officer, Information and Technology Department. In the latter capacity he designed the first information technology strategy for the Bank. He chaired an institutional task force that examined the implications of the information technology revolution for developing countries and recommended new roles for the organization. This led to the establishment of the first-ever informatics division in the World Bank. He also managed industrial technology and informatics projects and sector strategies in India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka and initiated a national strategy development process for software export promotion and national information infrastructure development for India.
His publications in this field include Information Technology Policies in Industrial Countries: A Shift Towards Diffusion? in ATAS, Issue 10, UNCTAD (autumn, 1995); The East Asia Miracle and Information Technology: Strategic Management of Technological Learning, WB Discussion Paper, no. 326 (1996). Information Technology Diffusion: Experience of Industrial Countries and Lessons for Developing Countries, WB Discussion Paper, no. 281 (1995). Exploiting Information Technology for Development: A Case Study of India, WB Discussion Paper, no. 246 (1994); Information Technology in World Bank Lending, WB Discussion Paper, no. 206 (1993); and A Framework for Information Management, ITF Staff Papers, WB (April 1990).