Digital Video Conference allows academics in Montevideo to
connect with Washington DC on anti corruption issues
The two groups discuss ways to introduce
programs and training to Uruguay’s universities.
December
8, 2003
Uruguayan university officials
in Montevideo were able to share ideas on anti-corruption
training with experts in Washington DC, through a digital
video conference hosted by the Public Affairs section of
the U.S. Embassy on Thursday (Dec. 4).
Washington panelists included
Richard Werksman, of the Bureau for International Narcotics
and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State,
and Dr. Francisco Nieto, a corruption expert from Georgetown
University. Werksman gave an overview of the State Department’s
support for anti-corruption training. Dr. Nieto followed
with details of the model he had developed for a training
program that includes 15 university professors.
Montevideo panelists Dr. Carlos
Balsa and Jorge Sambarino from the Uruguayan government’s
financial council, Dr. Milton Cairoli, director of the criminal
law institute at the Universidad de la Republic, Uruguay’s
national university, and Dr. Daniel Podesta, dean of law
at the Universidad de la Empresa, a private university.
The Uruguayan panelists
aid they would like to introduce an anti-corruption curriculum
to the universities in Montevideo, but added that funding
such a program would be difficult. The two groups plan to
meet again.
