EURO 2025 Leeds
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240. OR, in Europe and worldwide, for Development and Developing Countries, yesterday, today and tomorrow

Invited abstract in session TC-23: OR Challenges for Developing Countries 1, stream OR for Societal Development.

Tuesday, 12:30-14:00
Room: Esther Simpson 3.01

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology
2. Nina Kajiji
Computer Science and Statistics, University of Rhode Island, and The NKD Group, Inc.
3. Gordon Dash
Finance and Decision Sciences, University of Rhode Island
4. Jinal Parikh
Technology, Operations & Decision Sciences, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University
5. Sarah Fores
EURO

Abstract

EURO Working Group on Operational Research for Development (EWG-ORD) was established within the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) during EURO 2006 in Iceland.
Its aim is to promote and facilitate communication links among European and other researchers working in areas of operational research (OR) for development.
EWG-ORD has organized annual workshops, e.g., ICORD workshops with IFORS, to promote the importance of OR in improving the lives of people in developing and developed countries, as well as streams at EURO, IFORS and other conferences.
From the beginning, EWG ORD was very international and global, which led to numerous developmental impulses worldwide. This enriched IFORS itself, its regional groupings, numerous national OR societies, other EWGs and further groups, universities and organizations, sciences and disciplines, and always the lives of the local people.
IFORS has a dedicated section "Developing Countries online resources" which serves as a platform to provide widespread access to free and publicly-available OR materials for development to the entire OR community, including researchers and practitioners in the Developing Countries (DCs). It has now reached 1 million visitors.
Among the many collaborators and supporters were E. del Rosario, S. Merchant, L. White and H. Smith. We would like to thank them all very much.
This presentation provides details, examples and future challenges of OR for Development.

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Status: accepted

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