At Cruise Speed

July 3, 2008 at 2:13 pm Leave a comment

Day 3 in the conference already and staff and attendees have finally settled into the rythm of things. The presentation of Mr. De Vries, one of the fellow rapporteurs, has drawn a large crowd. And when the rapporteurs and deleguates are not discussing the aid to governance and the governance of aid, they review their papers in the garden or gather in an improvised meeting under an umbrella (the Turkish weather has been really kind to us). The coffee break does not really mean it’s a pause as we can witness some of our deleguates sharpening their debates skills before they are back in session.

This afternoon, Mr. Rolet Loretan, Director General, also had a meeting to prepare the future: the 2010 Congress of Administrative Sciences. In March, the Excecutive Committee had decided to award the Congress to the Candidate of Indonesia: the island of Bali. A sizeable deleguation from different Ministries and our member Institution, Indonesia National Institute of Public Administration, was present in Ankara.

In the evening, all the participants were invited to the traditionnal Gala Dinner, which took place at the Ankara Palas, where Atatürk used to entertain his guests (charming old pictures are displayed in a gallery to remind us how fancy those parties were). Another great opportunity for everyone to network and discuss which of the Turks or the Germans will go through the semi-finals tonight.

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