http://www.iia.ca/geninfo.htmIt also confers the following academic degrees and titles: Doctor of Philosophy,...
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There is a special Department of the Academy «Informatization and the United Nations". Recently the UN Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan and the UN Under-Secretary General, Mr. Jin were elected as Academicians.
The Academy has a programme devoted to preparing the UN Secretariat and concerned staff-members for Doctor of Philosophy and relevant scientific degrees. It is noted that this programme will involve no financial implications for the UN or its members. Among academic degrees, the IIA offer PhDs and Grand PhDs in all fields.
The Grand PhD. thesis involves extensive, in-depth research and an original approach to the solution of global problems. In order to obtain a Grand Ph.D., the candidate must have solved a complex problem of importance to the World Community, have written one hundred scientific papers, two or three monographs, and have participated in the preparation of five to ten PhD.
At the beginning of 1997, Academicians Joseph Verner Reed, UN Under-Secretary General (USA), Ji Chaozhu, former UN Under-Secretary General (China), O. Lesnik (Russia) were awarded a PhD at the regional faculty IIA in New York.
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Now, in accordance with the Charter, the degree of Grand Doctor of Philosophy may be awarded by four organizations:
International Informatization Academy (I.I.A.) in the General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the UN (Moscow);
International Informatization Center (C.I.I.) (Brussels);
European Informatization Academy (A.E.I.) (Belgium);
World Information Distributed University (W.I.D.U.) (Brussels-Moscow).