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Comparative Technology Transfer and Society 3.3 (2005) 351-354



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Donald E. Klingner
Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Donald Klingner is a professor of public administration in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is co-author of Public Personnel Management (5th edition, 2003, with John Nalbandian), also published in Spanish and Chinese. He is an international public management consultant to the UN, World Bank, and IADB; a visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); and a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Central America (1994). He is the International Coordinator of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA; 2004–present), and past Chair of ASPA's Section on Personnel and Labor Relations (1983–1984), and Section on International and Comparative Administration (2001–2003). He co-edits Comparative Technology Transfer and Society. He has been on the faculties of Indiana University (1974– 1980) and Florida International University (1980–2000). Prior to receiving his PhD in Public Administration from the University of Southern California (1974), he worked for the U.S. government's central personnel agency (1968–1973). He can be reached at <dklingne@uccs.edu>.

Gamal M. Sabet
Economics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Sabet is a professor of management and human resources at the Economics Research Institute in Cairo, Egypt. He is also a consultant and trainer, having taught and conducted research at the University of Miami, Florida State University, and many Egyptian universities. He has designed and implemented management training programs for over 1,000 businesses and public agencies in the Middle [End Page 351] East; has published scholarly articles in public policy analysis, management, and human resources development; and has translated more than twenty books from English to Arabic. He can be reached at <sabet30@hotmail.com>.

Guido Bertucci
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

Guido Bertucci is currently in charge of the United Nations Programme on Public Administration, Finance and Development, which promotes sound governance and efficient and competent public administration around the world. Mr. Bertucci has been responsible for advocacy activities in governance and public administration at the global level and for promoting high-level intergovernmental discussions and consensus on these themes. He has written, spoken, and organized meetings worldwide on topics such as democratic governance, civil service reform, leadership, innovation in government and public administration, e-government, decentralization, economic and social governance, ethics, and integrity. He has been responsible for the creation and management of networks in governance and public administration. He has managed large-scale departments and operations including financial and human resources, and has taught, lectured, delivered training, and provided advice and technical assistance to countries in the area of governance and public administration. He can be reached at <bertucci@un.org>.

Jerzy Szeremeta
United Nations (Retired)

Dr. Jerzy Szeremeta is the former Chief of the Knowledge Management Branch in the United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs in the UN Secretariat in New York. His most recent work has focused on development of ideas and tools useful to the member states, including policy advice, in the area of e-government deployment and transition to knowledge society. He is the author of the World Public Sector Report 2003: "E-government at the Crossroads," as well as the 2005 UN report on "Understanding Knowledge Societies." His professional career covers 20 years of employment with the United Nations, for most of the time with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where he worked both in field and headquarters assignments. Throughout the 1990s, he was associated with the production of the UNDP Human Development Reports, as a member of advisory or readers groups for several of them. He was a member of the UNDP team that supported production of the Arab Human Development Report, "Creating Opportunities for Future Generations" (2002). Before joining the United Nations, he worked in the diplomatic service of Poland (1969–1984), with assignments in Tokyo, Japan, and at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He has a doctorate in...

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