Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Officials from Kazakhstan at IUPUI This Week


For the past month, 32 Kazakhstan officials have been visiting Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis to attend a training program on public administration, notes Alfred Ho (left), associate professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Tomorrow and Thursday they will make some project presentations and compare Kazakhstan with the U.S. government/social/economic systems.

They will do their presentations in the Room 274 of the IT building. "Please feel free to join us if you have time and would like to exchange some ideas with the visiting officials," Dr. Ho says.

Here's the schedule for tomorrow (1 August):
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. -- A comparative study of the taxation system
11 a.m.-noon -- A comparative study of the social insurance system
1 p.m.-2 p.m. -- strategies to finance economic development / high tech industrial development
2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. -- e-government strategies

And, for Thursday (2 August):
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. -- gender equity issues
11 a.m.-noon -- social policies on youth

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