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Veni Markovski, GIPI coordinator for Bulgaria, discusses Internet issues with former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright at the 21st Century Literacy Summit, sponsored by the AOL Time Warner Foundation, in collaboration with the Bertelsmann Foundation, Berlin, March 7-8, 2002. Left to right: Markovski, Jacek Gajewski (CEENet, Poland), Parry Aftab (Internet activist, US), Albright, David Hoffman (President, Internews) Kathy Bushkin (President, AOL Time/Warner Foundation).

GIPI-OSI meeting at Uzbek Post and Telecommunication Agency, May 2002, from left to right Sergey Kushch - Coordinator of Internet Programs OSI Uzbekistan, Galina Gafurbekova - Head of Information Technology Department Of Post and Telecommunication Agency; Alisher Ilkhamov - Director of OSI Uzbekistan; Abdulla Aripov - Director of Post and Telecommunication Agency (Minister); Ilya Mafter - Deputy Director of OSI Internet program New York; Shaukat Valitov - GIPI UZ

GIPI-OSI meetings with senior Members of Oliy Majlis (Parliament of Uzbekistan), May 2002.From left to right: 1) Jerzy Celichowski - Deputy Director of Information Program, OSI; 2) Sufkhondjan Soliev - Deputy chairman of the Committee for Industry, Building, Transport and Communication of Oliy Majlis (Parliament): 3) Malika Baymatova - interpaliamentary relations department of Oliy Majlis; 4) Izidor Kochmarik - Chairman of the Committee for Industry, Building, Transport and Communication; 5) Darius Cuplinskas - Director of Information Program, OSI; 6) David Stabbs - GIPI NIS Coordinator; 7) Sergey Kushch - Internet Program Coordinator, OSI Uz; 8) Shaukat Valitov - Country advocate GIPI

ICT Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, February, 2001. Left to right, Tattu Mabetalieva, GIPI CIS coordinator, Eric Johnson, GIPI Field Director, Jim Demspey, GIPI Policy Director.

Left to right, Abdulla Aripov, Deputy Prime Minister and Directory-General of the Uzbek Agency for Communication and Information, Shukhrat Akhundjanov , Director of UzInfoCom, and Richard Conroy, UNDP Resident Representative, at the international seminar on ICT development, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Nov. 26-27, 2002, co-organized by GIPI. For further information, see http://www.undp.org/dpa/frontpagearchive/2003/january/14jan03/index.html

GIPI Field Director Bob Horvitz speaks at the international seminar on ICT development, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Nov. 26-27, 2002, co-organized by GIPI. For further information, see http://www.undp.org/dpa/frontpagearchive/2003/january/14jan03/index.html

GIPI Policy Director Jim Dempsey, GIPI Azerbaijan coordinator Yashar Hajiyev, and GIPI Bulgaria coordinator Veni Markovski, in New York City, at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, April 2, 2003

GIPI Goes to Harvard: Thu Hue Nguyen (GIPI-VN) Jim Dempsey (GIPI Policy Director), David Sandukhchyan (GIPI AM) and Shaukat Valitov (former GIPI UZ), outside Pound Hall at Harvard Law School, May 14, 2003

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