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  • Seminar on Sustainable Energy in Dominican Republic

    Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) will present the seminar, “Opportunities for Sustainable Energy in the Dominican Republic,” on January 17, 2008, from 8:30 am – 6:30 pm, at FUNGLODE Headquarters in Santo Domingo. This seminar will form part of the International Week on Energy taking place in the Dominican Republic, January 14-18. The events taking place in the Dominican Republic will be organized by the
    National Commission on Energy, together with thirty public and private institutions and international organisms.

  • Official Launch of Management Plan for Sosúa Marine Park

    Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), Counterpart International and the Sosúa Marine Park held an event to commemorate the launch of the official plan for the effective management of the Sosúa Marine Park. The event took place at the Hotel Casa Marina in Sosúa, Dominican Republic. During the assembly, GFDD Environmental Projects Coordinator, Emy Rodríguez, and Counterpart International Facilitator, Kelvin
    Guerrero, discussed the objectives of the management plan and distributed copies of the official plan to stakeholders in attendance.

  • Fostering a Television Culture in Ibero-America

    Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) held the First Meeting on Ibero-American Television Culture at FUNGLODE Headquarters in Santo Domingo on December 4, 2007. The objective of the conference was to gather experts in the areas of communication, culture and education to discuss the development of an Ibero-American Television Culture and define a series of tasks that would be accomplished to achieve the regional
    objective.

  • Workshop on Application Design and Programming

    Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), in collaboration with Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Program, organized the seminar, “Application Design and Programming Utilizing Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Language Intergrated Query (LINQ),” on December 11, 2007, at FUNGLODE Headquarters in Santo Domingo. The program provided participants with information necessary to master these Microsoft
    components.

  • Meeting on Television Culture in Ibero-America

    The conference, “Why a Television Culture in Ibero-America?” will be presented by José Manuel Pérez Tornero, one of the most prestigious communication and education specialists in Europe. The presentation will officially open the Meeting on Ibero-American Television Culture that will take place December 6-8, 2007 at FUNGLODE Headquarters.

  • GFDD and FUNGLODE Receive Donation From the John D. & Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation

    Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) will receive a donation from the John D. & Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation to provide training to judges in the area of environmental law in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. Training sessions will be implemented during the course of three years, beginning January 2008 and ending December 2010.

  • GFDD and FUNGLODE Elaborate a Plan for the Management of the Sosúa Marine Park

    Based on the methodology outlined in the World Conservation Union’s manual, “How is Your MPA Doing?,” Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), Counterpart International and the Sosúa Marine Sanctuary have elaborated a plan for the management of the Sosúa Marine Park.

  • GFDD and FUNGLODE Launch the Book: Dominican Republic: New Perspectives

    Transmitting to the world all the richness, diversity and historical heritage of the Dominican Republic through the pages of a book represents a challenging task. With out a doubt, the book, Dominican Republic: New Perspectives, a bilingual English-Spanish edition realized by Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), comes remarkably close to achieving this goal, revealing to the reader a country of innumerable
    facets, simultaneously celebrating its environment, history and people.

  • Second Dominican Republic Global Film Festival Canceled

    Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and its sister institution in the Dominican Republic, Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), regret the tragedy that is affecting the Dominican Republic and feel for the people and families that have suffered, and continue to suffer, the impact and consequences of Tropical Storm Noel.

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