APC TRANSLATION TEST: ENGLISH INTO SPANISH
TRANSLATION ONE
APC is Hiring: Executive Director
APC is seeking an exceptional and visionary person to take on the full-time role of executive director (ED). The ED is the operational centre of APC. Effective management and leadership is the responsibility of the ED and enables a solid foundation for the overall health and effectiveness of the organisation.
POSITION OBJECTIVE
The objective of this position is to manage APC's operations well and ensure the effective implementation of APC programmes and management systems.
SUPERVISOR
Chair of the APC council and the executive board
ORGANISATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Staff, executive board, council, programme and project coordinators
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: The ED reports to the APC executive board and has regular and frequent contact with the APC council. Most of this work is carried out electronically in private email lists.
RESPONSIBILITIES: The ED's core responsibility is to further the mission and goals of APC by managing the organisation in a financially viable and organisationally effective manner.
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TRANSLATION TWO
Fantsuam takes the lonely road to rural wireless internet
APC member Fantsuam Foundation remains a lone player in rural wireless internet service in northern Nigeria. "But our capacity building efforts have been given a real boost by two APC-led events in Zanzibar and South Africa," says John Dada, of the foundation.
Represented by Ochuko Onoberhie, the Fantsuam Foundation was one of the new trainers at the APC-IDRC South African Wireless Workshop, held in mid-September 2006. Fantsuam was also identified as a strategic partner for the next round of trainers for the West African version of this workshop. Through these various capacity building events, Fantsuam is working to act as a sub-regional resource centre for wireless training.
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TRANSLATION THREE
It is true that the Task Force on Financing Mechanisms (TFFM) did not function as a deadlock-breaking mechanism on the issue of a fund for ICTD (ICT for development) and this is perhaps its main weakness. The question of whether there should be a new form of global fund for ICTD was not adequately addressed by the TFFM, nor was the case for a new form of fund in the form of the global public good argument taken seriously. In this regard, the refusal of the Task Force to discuss not only the existing voluntary Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) but even the concept of a mandatory Global Fund, or even to review the success or failures of other global funds for the environment and HIV/AIDS was as irrational as the predominant perspective in the North that African countries were acting irrationally in demanding a DSF without undertaking the necessary research to adequately motivate for it.
At the same time, there was a view in the Task Force that perhaps the underlying reason that existing financial mechanisms were not being fully exploited by developing countries had to do with fundamental information asymmetries regarding how these financial mechanisms worked as well as a lack of coordination in the utilization of the financial mechanisms for ICTD. In addition, it was clear that there were also policy information gaps as between agencies like the World Bank and developing country governments about the purpose of ICT policy and how to implement it.
It was in this context that APC attempted to argue for a combined policy/financial mechanism that would address the financial mechanism knowledge gaps, the ICT policy information gaps as well as create a space for a new form of fund to mobilize additional resources. APC argued that many developing countries had experienced mixed results from the telecom reform policy process, as well as from national ICT strategies, which had become so broad and complex as to be un-implementable in any meaningful way.
The Task Force concluded:
• Most developing countries are not yet able to leverage the full benefits of these existing (financial) mechanisms. (Conclusion 1)
• There remains a question of whether the existing array of financial mechanisms is “adequate” to “meet the challenges of ICT for development”. (Conclusion 2)
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