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TV star to speak in Mongolia about maximizing benefits of country’s natural resources |
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
 American TV star James Scott
will be coming to Mongolia as part of his campaign to assist developing
countries.
"I'm going to Mongolia
in September," Scott told Soap Opera Digest. "I have
been asked by the World Bank to go and give a small presentation on
my company, which they see as being a fairly good model for progressive
businesses."
Scott’s company, Urth Solutions,
seeks to assist communities with undeveloped natural resources. "I
was thinking about doing something like this for a few years,"
Scott, who plays EJ Wells on Days of our Lives, told Soap Opera Digest.
"I thought I'd try and find a company that would help communities
in resource-rich areas to be able to harness those resources in a sustainable
way then sell them for a premium to the West. It's basically about
helping communities help themselves. 'Trade not aid.'"
Working in Bolivia, Urth Solutions
assisted a community that did not know how to extract their gold deposits.
The company worked with the community to find ways to extract the gold
without damaging the environment.
"In Bolivia, we found
a community that has a lot of gold. So we're investing in a program
to help the residents of that community mine the gold in an environmentally
sustainable way, so that we can generate profits for the community,”
James Scott explained.
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Mongolia Websites
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Akira
KAMIMURA, lecturer, faculty of Mongolian studies, Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies launched an innovative website on old Mongolian
manuscripts maps in cooperation with the state archive of Mongolia. It contains 16 precious maps which are stored at the state archive for
academic use. The oldest map was estimated being made in 1803-1805.
A remarkable
feature of this web site is that you can find manuscripts written on
those maps by an advanced search function. All content of the maps has been indexed and easily accessible with the advanced search function.
For
instance, if you type, "erdeni"(transcription of Mongol bichig as
"erdene"), you get 24 search results and it says "erdeni" is written on
4 different maps. Then, it indicates where the search words are found
on the specific places of the maps. Also, you can add search conditions
among 20 items.
KAMIMURA
hopes this web site helps progress on study of Mongolian history and
many other related disciplines. Not only for the academic use, it is
also beautiful and interesting to appreciate.
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