http://www.pmforum.org/Breaking News in the Project Management World1038Sunday, March 14, 2010Sunday, March 14, 2010Reported by Jouko Vaskimo in Helsinki The Project Management Institute (PMI) has announced that Mr Karl Best has been appointed to the position of Secretary of ISO/PC 236, the committee working on ISO 21500 A Guide for Project Management. PMI serves as thhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/KarlBestnominatedSecretaryofISOPCcommittee.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1037Saturday, March 13, 2010Saturday, March 13, 2010ProjectZone 2010, the 2nd Annual Project, Program & Portfolio Management Summit and Exhibition, will be held in Budapest, Hungary during 29-30 April 2010. The event, with the theme "Best of Class Practices in Challenging Times", will be at the Hothttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/ProjectZoneSummitannouncedforBudapestin.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1036Saturday, March 13, 2010Saturday, March 13, 2010Founding Partners NASA, NIKE, Inc., USAID, and the U.S. Department of State have announced LAUNCH, an initiative whose mission is to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to humanity's sustainability challenges through a series of forumhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/LAUNCHinitiativeinUSAtopromoteSustainability.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1035Saturday, March 13, 2010Saturday, March 13, 2010Reported by Ann R. Miller in DallasThe Call for Papers for the 4th UT Dallas Project Management Symposium, to be held August 12-13, 2010 at The University of Texas at Dallas, has been extended to 15 March 2010. There is therefore still time to submit ahttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/CallforPapersforAugustUTDallasProjectManagement.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1034Friday, March 12, 2010Friday, March 12, 2010The heads of space agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review International Space Station (ISS) cooperation. With the assembly of the ISS nearing completion and the capability thttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/HeadsofSpaceAgenciesIssueJointStatementonFuture.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1033Friday, March 12, 2010Friday, March 12, 2010Reported by Miles Shepherd in the UKThe Association for Project Management (APM) submitted its application for a Royal Charter to the Privy Council in early spring 2009. It was hoped that a decision would be announced in the autumn. So far, no public http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/CHARTEREDSTATUSREMAINSTOPPRIORITYFORAP.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1032Thursday, March 11, 2010Thursday, March 11, 2010Reported by Kushtrim Mehmetaj in Prishtina, Republic of KosovaMinistry of Energy and Mining has announced four shortlisted consortiums interested to build the power plant "Kosova e Re". There was an increased interest from a wide range of companies reqhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/FourconsortiumsinterestedinbuildingPowerPlant.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1031Wednesday, March 10, 2010Wednesday, March 10, 2010Reported by Jaycee Kruger in JohannesburgFluor Corporation of Irving, Texas, USA has announced that the company has won an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract from Debswana Diamond Company Ltd, a joint venture of the Ghttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/FluorawardedEPCMContractforUSMillionDiamond.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1030Tuesday, March 09, 2010Tuesday, March 09, 2010Reported by Alexander Tovb in MoscowThe European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has adopted a new strategy for the Russian Federation to give more priority to economic diversification, supporting the real sector of the economy, promotinhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/EBRDAnnouncesNewStrategyforRussianInvestment.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1029Monday, March 08, 2010Monday, March 08, 2010The World Bank has approved US$35 million in financing for the Sarajevo Waste Water Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Project will help rehabilitate waste water infrastructure in the Canton of Sarajevo, and repair and replace primary and secondaryhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/FinancingApprovedforWastewaterProjectinBosnia.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1028Sunday, March 07, 2010Sunday, March 07, 2010The Program Management Academy has announced its next public workshop on Program Management, Achieving Business Success with Program Management, to be held in Portland, Oregon, USA during May 4-5, 2010. The instructor will be Russ Martinelli, author of Prhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/ProgramManagementAcademyAnnouncesMayProgramManagement.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1027Saturday, March 06, 2010Saturday, March 06, 2010The third Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, was successfully launched on Thursday, 4 March 2010 aboard a IV rocket at 6:57 p.m. EST (00:57 GMT March 5) from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station inhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/GOESPSatelliteSuccessfullyLaunche.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1026Friday, March 05, 2010Friday, March 05, 2010Reported by Rudiger Geist in ZurichThe IPMA Expert Seminars in Zurich are well-known as a place, where new ideas and innovative methods in Project Management were created and nursed, since their revitalization a few years ago. The papers as well as a http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/ReportfromIPMAExpertSeminarinSwitzerlan.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1025Thursday, March 04, 2010Thursday, March 04, 2010The death toll from the strongest earthquake to strike Chile in more than 50 years officially stands at 723 people, according to the public health arm of the United Nations on 2 March. Approximately 80 per cent of the South American country's population whttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/DeathTollfromMassiveEarthquakeinChiletops.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1024Wednesday, March 03, 2010Wednesday, March 03, 2010The Governments of the United States and Germany held a Science and Technology Agreement signing ceremony on 18 February 2010 at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg signed the agreement on behalf of thhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/USAandGermanySignFirstScienceandTechnologyAgreemen.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1023Tuesday, March 02, 2010Tuesday, March 02, 2010Reported by Henry Mkhwananzi in Harare ZIMBABWE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AUTHORITY (ZESA) has secured loans and grants amounting to US$132 million from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and African Development Bank (ADB) for rehabilitating the Hwanhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/USmforZimbabwesHwangeThermalPowerStation.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1022Tuesday, March 02, 2010Tuesday, March 02, 2010Reported by David Mathie in Kurrajong QGC has announced that it will commit to contracts valued at more than US$3 billion in the first half of 2010 as it advances plans for its Queensland Curtis LNG Project on Curtis Island near Gladstone, Queensland, Aushttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/03/QGCcommitsUSbillionforCurtisIslandLNGProject.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1021Sunday, February 28, 2010Sunday, February 28, 2010The Network for Project Managers in Greece (PM-Greece) has announced Early Registration Discount prices for the PM-05: Advancing Project Management for the 21st Century conference in May. The fifth Project Management Conference (PM-05) in Greece with the http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/EarlyRegistrationDiscountAvailableforMayPM.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1020Sunday, February 28, 2010Sunday, February 28, 2010Reported by Miles Shepherd in UK U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the U.S. government's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced on 23 February 2010 that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/DesignselectedfornewUSEmbassyinLondo.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1019Sunday, February 28, 2010Sunday, February 28, 2010Max Wideman has announced the updates to his popular project management website for February 2010. According to the email from Max, here are the items to be added to his website in March. Are you one of those project managers charged with serious cost chttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/WidemanPMWebsiteupdatesannouncedforMarch.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1018Saturday, February 27, 2010Saturday, February 27, 2010Reported by Ann R. Miller in DallasThe Executive Education Program at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) has announced that their Managing Projects Across Borders Professional Development series in now available worldwide through two new onlhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/UniversityofTexasatDallasannouncesnewONLINE.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1017Saturday, February 27, 2010Saturday, February 27, 2010The Project Management Association of Canada - Association de Management de Projet du Canada (PMAC-AMPC) has announced that Morley Selver has been appointed a "First Assessor" for IPMA certification reviews. PMAC-AMPC represents the IPMA (Internationahttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/MorleySelvernamedCompetencyAssessorbyProject.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1016Saturday, February 27, 2010Saturday, February 27, 2010Aaron Cohen, a former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and a former NASA program manager, died 25 February 2010, after a lengthy illness. He was 79. Cohen had a 33-year career with NASA. He was a steady hand at the helm of Johnson http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/InMemoriamAaronCohenPioneeringNASAProgramManager.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1015Saturday, February 27, 2010Saturday, February 27, 2010The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are evaluating the feasibility of developing renewable energy production on Superfund, brownfields, and former landfill or mihttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/CleanenergyprojectsonContaminatedSuperfundSites.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1014Friday, February 26, 2010Friday, February 26, 2010Reported by Ann R. Miller in Dallas The Town of Addison, a suburb of Dallas, is soon to become the first Texas municipality (and one of the few in the USA) to build a self-powered water tower. The project when completed will double as a piece of art. Windhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/WindPoweredWaterTowerProjectinTexasalsotocombine.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1013Friday, February 26, 2010Friday, February 26, 2010A US software company is set to provide a reliable and secure communications system to emergency response teams assisting in the Haitian relief effort under an agreement with the United Nations, the UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has annohttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/ProjecttostrengthenFirstRespondersinHaitiannounce.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1012Thursday, February 25, 2010Thursday, February 25, 2010Reported by Jouko Vaskimo in HelsinkiPoyry PLC has been awarded an urban development design contract by the Millennium Challenge Account, Burkina Faso (MCA Burkina Faso). The Pöyry assignment comprises the design for implementation of 17 communal buildhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/Poyryawardedurbandevelopmentdesigncontractin.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1011Thursday, February 25, 2010Thursday, February 25, 2010U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration's historic efforts to restore the Great Lakes. The action plan, which the administrator unveiled at a meeting with governorhttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/GreatLakesRestorationProgramAnnouncedinUS.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1010Wednesday, February 24, 2010Wednesday, February 24, 2010Reported by Alexander Tovb in MoscowWe congratulate our colleagues from the Ukrainian Project Management Association, professor Sergei Bushuev, professor Yuri Tesla, and professor Natalya Bushueva with the great professional and academic achievement -http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/SergeiBushuevTeamAwardedStatePrizeforProfessional.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org1009Wednesday, February 24, 2010Wednesday, February 24, 2010Reported by Jurgen Oschadleus in MelbourneThe 2010 PMI Global Congress Asia Pacific kicked off in Melbourne on 22 February with keynote speaker Mr. Scott Berkun, former Microsoft executive and best-selling author of "The Myths of Innovation" and "Makihttp://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/02/MrScottBerkunLaunchesAsiaPacificCongressinMelbourn.htmlwebmaster@pmforum.org