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An Australian,  Mark Fleeton, has been named CEO of World Bank spin-off, the Development Gateway Foundation, an organisation set up to leverage the Internet for the benefit of people in developing countries.

It aims to "provide online solutions to strengthen good governance, improve the effectiveness of international aid and support local and global knowledge-sharing initiatives."    
 
Fleeton has spent his career in the management of international aid to assist developing countries and has been acting as interim CEO of the Development Gateway since January. Prior to joining the organisation he was an assistant director general at AusAID, the Australian Agency for International Development, where he was responsible for program quality, knowledge management systems and the coordination of programs focused on information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development.

He previously spent  10 years with AusAID managing country programs in Asia and the Pacific and before that spent seven years in Australia's Department of Finance.