Setting up the UW PURCHASING/ITECH AFRICA BLOG

Purchasing Services Mavens:

I am setting up a blog so that you can follow Sophia and my

activities in Namibia, So. Africa and Ethiophia. We are

excited about this opportunity to work with ITECH on

training their people in Africa, performing a purchasing audit

and preparing for the delegation of authority (for purchasing)

to the country in question for certain types of purchases.

Several people have asked that we let them know what we are

doing for ITECH. I thought that a blog, with all of it's informality

would be the best approach.

Once we start our trip, we will be posting daily where

possible.

In the mean time, I will post some background items

to catch you up to speed over the next couple of days.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kathryn

for all of her help in putting together some terrific

training materials. She has not only helped us with

the training but also has worked with Sophia on the

creation of examples and items for our purchasing audit.

We leave next Friday, August 7th. I will post the

flight itenary later this week.

I hope that you enjoy this blog and that this type of

communications keeps our pledge to you for transparancy.

Thanks again,

Dennis & Sophia