Representatives of around 40 countries will attend this conference, including pilots, self starters, countries interested in voluntarily adopting the DaO approach or learning about it, the donor community, principals of the United Nations system and its senior staff.
On 27 January, UNESCO's Director-General will open the conference on "Journalism ethics and self-regulation in Europe: New media, old dilemmas".
Mild-mannered and self-effacing, Mr. Liodice transformed the annual conference from a cocktail-and-golf boondoggle cliche into a marketing TED-like event, with an inspiring and energetically relevant agenda, where the focus is on learning and useful dialogue (laced with networking, entertainment, and of course, a bit of cocktails and golf).
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An acquaintance recalled seeing him at a writers' conference which was attended by Allen Ginsberg, a self-publicising poet who declaimed his verse accompanied by an accordion he usually carried.
My biggest takeaway from visiting the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on March 4-5: the feeling that the self described stat geeks making inroads into sports in recent years are just getting started.
Replying for the opposition, shadow justice minister Lord Bach accused the government of keeping its policy on self-defence laws "under wraps" since the justice secretary's recent conference speech.
Rutgers, on the verge of a showy entry into the Big Ten Conference, finds itself in yet another college-sports controversy, once more self-inflicted.
Earlier this month Ken Clarke told the Conservative Party conference that the government was drawing up policies to "resolve public doubts on the law of self defence by victims of crime".
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