It is expected for a number of the proposed future activities to be supported by the World Bank Institute, the complementary regional programme, ANSA-Arab World, and other partners, including UNESCO.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

The organisations supporting the decade, which include George Soros's Open Society Institute, the World Bank, the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme, will help governments to carry out ten-year plans focusing on education, employment, health and housing.

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Created by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, the institute has announced support from the Omidyar Network and from the World Bank, to help collect evidence globally on the benefits of open data and train senior people who will lead open data initiatives in developing countries.

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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is scheduled to meet with Commerce Secretary Daley, World Bank President Wolfensohn and address the Arab American Institute Foundation in Washington.

CNN: Sunday

The Global Adaptation Institute, led by former World Bank Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub, publishes the Global Adaptation Index, which shows how vulnerable countries are to global warming and how prepared they are to tackle it.

WSJ: Bj?rn Lomborg: Global Warming and Adaptability

The Vatican Bank, known officially as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), was created during World War II to administer accounts held by religious orders, cardinals, bishops and priests.

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