ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GEORGE BENWELL

Academic Director of Research, Research and International Office
and Department of Information Science, University of Otago

Walking the streets of Roma and wandering the corridors of the UN FAO 

Abstract:  
George Benwell has spent five months at the head office of the Food and
Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. During
that time he was attached to the land tenure service and worked on technical
cooperative programs in Slovenia, Namibia and Lesotho as well as on general
issues related to land tenure and land taxation. He has continued with his
research on cultural issues in land tenure and the national integration of
information systems.  Apart from the difficult technical tasks he has walked
the streets of Rome, driven the countryside and discovered history, pasta
and the Italian language.  He has learnt to cook (some things) too.

Where:  Castle C

When:  1.00 pm, Friday 20 March 1998