Based at the Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham, the 3Cities Project is "an inter- and multidisciplinary study of the iconography, spatial forms and literary and visual cultures of New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles in the period 1870s to 1930s."
At present, the site hosts a collection of essays on the three cities, information on the project as a whole, and links and information for related conferences and seminars. The Project has also posted on a different site the City Sites Electronic Book, a collection of ten multimedia essays on New York and Chicago. Visitors can access these essays via interactive maps, a list, or by following theme-based "pathways."
SAITIS is a joint project of the South African Government Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Electrical Electronic and Allied Industries, and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
A Project Office was established in the DTI in May 1999 to implement the Project. PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC - Canada) was appointed as the Canadian Executing Agency (CEA).
SAITIS is a three year, Cdn $3.5 million project to help develop a strong South African IT industry. The Project is to promote the South African IT industry in a manner that will contribute to sustainable economic growth. Focus areas are the bilateral program strategy developed between CIDA and the Government of South Africa during the reconstruction and development period of post-apartheid. It will contribute in building information communities, in increasing employment, in developing intellectual capital, and in building a local capacity to enhance skills.
[ Click here to read the Project description ]
The January 2001 pmNETWORK magazine of the Project Management Institute introduces the removal and eventual burial of a full-size nuclear reactor as.
"It was an ambitious project from the start to remove, transport, and dispose of a full-sized commercial nuclear reactor, complete with internal structures and laden with radioactivity from 19 years in service, in one piece that when packaged for shipmenet would weigh more than two million pounds - 1,000 tons".
While the big lift was impressive it was not the first time that a heavy engineering lift and movement has been attempted. This has been effected many times before. What is impressive about the PMI 2000 POY is the movement of a majestic monolith on road and barge to its final resting place. A truly different project.
The striking project management job of the 2000 POY was the way the environmental impact was handled by the project team. The bureaucratic paper work to move the de-commissioned reactor through the various levels of State and Municpal licencing and the project communications planning and execution that preceeded the move. The Project Communications Plan of this Project must have been impressive and is a model for other projects that embrace avoidance or reduced environmental impact as a key project objective.
Go to the PMI® web site for a video presentation of The Trojan Reactor Vessel and Internals Removal Project. The PMI Web Site is http://www.pmi.org and as PMI does not allow deep site links you will have to add the following to this URL, that is, http://www.pmi.org/awards/recipients/index.htm
A Defense Advanced Research Project (DARPA) to look into the long-term architecture of the Internet. This DARPA initiative, called the Newarch Project, is to take a completely clean-sheet approach to the design of the Internet over the next 25 years based on the lessons learned over the past 25 years. The interesting aspect of the Newarch Project is that the team is to studiously ignore the question of how this new network might be built and how users might migrate to it from today's Internet.
[ Click here for a listing of remote sites with further information on the Newarch Project ]
The Hong Kong Cyberport is a three phase Infrastructure project which will comprise a mix of offices, residential, commercial and recreation facilities supported by world-class telecommunications and a range of hi-tech facilities such as a multimedia laboratory and teleconferencing rooms. The Hong Kong Cyberport will provide a total of 112,100 square meters of office space to accomodate 150 to 200 IT companies of varying size.
The Cyberport is a technology-themed project that is to provide a campus-like environment with world-class facilities such as intelligent offices, an optical fibre network, broadband connnectivity and shared facilities.
[ Click here for more on the Hong Kong Cyberport Project ]
or for a quick read on the Hong Kong Cyberport here is a Brief received from Shirley Wong Principal Consultant Investment Promotion, Hong Kong Economica & Trade Office,Toronto Canada.
Primavera Enterprise®is has helped the Canadian Army to reduce time needed to assess opeartional readiness and create mission-training plans. Dr. Phil O’Neill, an operational research scientist in the Canadian Departmentof National Defense has pioneered a new method for performing readiness assessments using tools from Primavera Systems,Inc.
O’Neill proposed that assessing military readiness could be performed accurately and quickly through the use of a project management approach. Since his report received so much positive feedback, O’Neill began working to implement it using small-scale examples. As a result, O’Neill began looking for software that would provide the horsepower needed to eventually manage resources on an enterprise-level for an organization the size of the Canadian Army.
The ProjektManagement Association Austria ( PMA) are carrying out an international project on PM Benchmarking in cooperation with the International Project Management Association. Potential Benchmarking-Partners are sought from Project-oriented companies or business units from all industries and from public administrations interested in the further development of their project management competencies.
Groups of Benchmarking-Partners will be formed in Europe, USA and Canada, and Asia.
The PM Benchmarking objectives are:
For more detailed information about the International Research Project on
PM Benchmarking, go to website home page:
http://www.wu.wien.ac.at/project/pm_benchmarking
The SY-101 Surface Level Rise Remediation Project of the U.S. Department of Energy required both advanced engineering thinking and state of the art material handling with its unusual nature and environment impact. A gigantic cauldron of boiling nuclear waste was pacified and brought under long term material control.
There are two aspects of this Project stand out. The immediate management of an innovative engineering solution to the problem of boiling nuclear waste, and the emphasis on safety based mockups, spare maintenance components and careful technical and ongoing research and study of the "out of control" nuclear waste.
The [SY-101 on-line Brief ] provides an excellent description of the Project and lays out the professional use of standard work management tools and excellent visibility into project progress.
The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as "Linux'', they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.
The Free Software Foundation is a tax-exempt charity that raises funds for work on the GNU Project. The philosophy and history of the GNU project is featured in Richard M. Stallman's article The GNU Project. The FSF supports the freedoms of speech, press, and association on the Internet, the right to use encryption software for private communication, and the right to write software unimpeded by private monopolies.
Contact Information about GNU and the FSF to
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The environmental clean up of the Miamisburg Environmental Management Project of the Mound Laboratory of the US Atomic Energy Program is an impressive project management undertaking. That is, the management of sophisticated technology required for reduction and clean of and remains of a famous and key laboratory for nuclear products to supply the Manhattan Project which led to the first Atomic bomb.
While the technology and management are impressive even more telling is the fashion in which this project of the US Department of Energy has mobilized the local community and ensured that these Project stakeholders are informed and kept up to date on the meeting of milestones and status of the Project.
The Ohio Field Office of the DoE is responsible for the management of the Miamisburg Environmental Project and is dedicated to going out of business as quickly as possible. That is, the involvement of the community and the business of a project office to go out of business as soon as possible are the lessons to be gleaned from this Project.
The Project Office has provided for a download of the "Strategic Plan 1997-2005". Additionally, a copy of the "Performance Measures Matrix" is on line. This Project Office performance plan is an extensive and well thought out set of milestones for management performance measurement.