:Title:    1412 - a rich-poor partnership 
:Author:   David Bale
:Date:     Sat, 24 May 2008 03:51:44 PDT
:Modified: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:06:15 PDT
:URL:      http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/news/7/

**1412 - a rich-poor partnership**

(**note the numbering of areas has now changed - see bold below**)

This is a thread that will offer a chance to collaborate in a real-life WCC simulation, by looking at the kind of information people need to have in order to get started in their role as active participanta in a List B connection or partner area.

The World Connectory Project is all about this:  

 Each place listed as part of a `List B`_ (economically developed or 'richer') country will be allocated a place listed as a `List A`_ (economically less-developed, developing or 'poorer') country as a partner for five years to see how the two partners might be of mutual benefit.

The project needs to be about specifics: what specific people in one area might do in relation to specific people in another area. So we need a specific area to discuss, in order to see what the WCP challenge will actually amount to in an actual, real case.

Hence the title of the thread: I went to a RNG (Random Number Generator) site, customised one of the options on offer so that I would be given a single random number between 1 and 2,400.  This 
would then give me a way of focusing on just one partner area, the one with the corresponding number to one of the List A connection areas.

And the number given to me was 1412.

This, I then discovered, corresponds to:

  1412. Niger - Niamey capital district: communes 1 & 2

**The numbering of areas has now changed so that WWC Area #1412 is now in Nicaragua.  But at the time I started this thread, the area now listed as WWC Area #1420 was then #1412.  Sorry if this causes any confusion!**

So the task is - I hope some of you might join in with this - what information can we find out about WWC area #1412 that may be of use to the List B partner area to which it will randomly be linked when the WCP is eventually launched?

I'll post back in an hour's time with whatever I can find out.... 

.. _`List B`: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/ws/index/#list-b-developed-countries-that-will-be-included-in-the-worldwide-connectory-organised-into-20-world-zones-to-assist-in-the-allocation-process

.. _`List A`: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/ws/index/#list-a-developing-countries-that-will-be-included-in-the-worldwide-connectory