World Affairs Council of Ctrl Fl

We are working hard on the upcoming programs. We just got word we can release that we have 13 journalists from Iraq arriving at the end of the month (March). This group will be in Orlando studying Print Media in the US, which is quite an interesting topic as of late. The biggest market decline has been in Print Media over the last year and a half.

I spent a good deal of time in Alabama for school and got to see first hand the effects back in 2000 of the recession in Print Media and the convergence to on-line. My “college” family as I like to call them, lived in a small town in Alabama and “College” Dad was a paper mill engineer. He has since moved on to other things like semi-retirement, but even then they saw a huge draw on the workforce of people moving to different sectors because of the lack of work. I can only imagine what the paper sector is doing right now.

We are very hopeful for this group as they will get a chance to encouter a large number of local media contacts and have a wonderful time in Orlando. I am hoping for an event on March 30 for lunch if anyone would like to spend an hour with the real reporters from the real workplace. Please check our web-site for updates www.iccfvip.com

Max Stewart
ICCF

One of the fun parts of this organization is the diversity of it’s membership. ICCF doesn’t cater to one particular group of people or one specialized cause we work with all types of people.

I am happy to start working with our members on how to attract business from other countries and also how can local businesses get visas for their foreign counterparts to visit. I have spent most of the morning working on different functions of our office that can relate to business and also how important a role Washington DC shares in this relationship.

I will write more on that later.

I had a productive day today. I finished and sent two proposals out;  I pray that at least one would be accepted this time. They cover the same topic which is Law Enforcement. I also worked on the cover and welcome letters, as well as the name tags for the program from Serbia which will be coming in approximately two weeks. we had our first conference call in the morning; it went pretty well.

Akpedje

I finished my first proposal today and sent it. I think that the activities planned are pretty amazing. I will keep my fingers crossed to see if it will be accepted. I got to meet the visitors last week and got to attend a very interesting discussion. It gave an insight on politics and the confirmation that this was the field I wanna be in. I also did some research on accreditation association in Afghanistan. I was able to find only one. I looked at the list of projects to make a choice for my next proposal, but I am still undecided on the topic to choose. Overall, today was a great day.

Akpedje