Building Africa’s Information Highway, TRT 25:54, English, French, and Portuguese versions, Electronic Media Center, The World Bank, 1996. Executive Producer. Original footage from Egypt, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Senegal, and South Africa. To support UNECA’s African Information Society Initiative, includes interviews with leading African politicians and networkers.

Subsidies and the Environment: A Televised Dialogue, TRT 51:00, Electronic Media Center, The World Bank, 1997. Executive Producer. Leading international authorities discuss the negative impact of subsidies on the environment and ways to reduce or eliminate them. Moderated by Andrew Steer, Director, Environment Department, The World Bank.

Conserving Biodiversity: A Televised Dialogue, TRT 60:00, Electronic Media Center, The World Bank, 1996. Executive Producer. Leading international authorities discuss the threat of diminishing biodiversity and how to conserve what is left. Moderated by Andrew Steer, Director, Environment Department, The World Bank.

Global Warming and Climate Change: A Televised Dialogue, TRT 53:18, Electronic Media Center, The World Bank, 1996 . Executive Producer. Leading authorities discuss the threat of global warming and progress in implementing the Framework Convention on Climate Change signed by over 100 countries at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Moderated by Andrew Steer, Director, Environment Department, The World Bank.

Internet in Mozambique, TRT 27:00, English and Portuguese versions, Promarte, Maputo, 1996. Co-Scriptwriter. Includes interviews with top national political and technical leaders.

BITE: Bringing Internet to Ethiopia, TRT 17:40, Mega Studios, Addis Ababa, 1996. Co-Scriptwriter. Includes interviews with leading Ethiopian political, academic, and technical leaders.

Virtual Schools and Global Classrooms, TRT 26:52, Electronic Media Center, The World Bank, 1996. Executive Producer and Co-Script Writer. Video support for “Destined to Leapfrog: Why a Revolution in Learning Will Occur in Brazil, Russia, and South Africa”.

Meeting the Challenge: Information Infrastructure, the Developing Countries, and the  World Bank. TRT: 26:00, Electronic Media Center, The World Bank, 1996. Executive Producer. The main messages of the World Bank Conference on Information Infrastructure of July 12-13, 1995, conveyed through interviews and conference footage of leading participants.

Learning Nations: Technology and the New Global Economy TRT 27:00, 1995. Executive Producer. The main messages of the World Bank/National Research Council Conference on Marshaling Technology for Development, Irvine, CA, November 28-30, 1994, conveyed through interviews with leading participants.

Lessons of Inflation: Misconceptions and Mistakes, TRT 27:48,1995. Russian language, Electronic Media Center and Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, Message Agency, Moscow, 1995. Executive Producer. Features interviews with leading macroeconomists from Brazil, Israel, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. Script and narration by Mikhail Dmitriev. Many of the interviews with leading macroeconomists were arranged by Peter Knight. This is one of a series of two training videos.

Lessons of Inflation: Victory over Inflation. TRT 25:11, 1995. Russian language, Electronic Media Center and Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, Message Agency, Moscow, 1995. Executive Producer. Features interviews with leading macroeconomists from Brazil, Israel, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. Script and narration by Mikhail Dmitriev. Many of the interviews with leading macroeconomists were arranged by Peter Knight. This is one of a series of two training videos.

InfoDev. TRT 16:00, 1995. Executive Producer. A promotional video for the World Bank’s Information and Development Program.

Dom is a series of ten Russian fifty-minute dramatic programs (tele-roman or television novel) in which various economic topics are embedded including defense industry conversion; privatization of real estate; startup of new enterprises; the workings of markets for goods, labor, capital, and foreign exchange; and fighting the Mafia. The characters are all drawn from well-known Russian classic novels and short stories. Dom was produced by the Russian firm Message Agency, led by Matvey Saprykin, and were broadcast by Russia's premier private television station, NTV, in December 1995. Peter Knight helped conceptualize the series and mobilize western and Russian finance for this innovative venture.

Your Money or Your Life This two-program Russian mini-series on high inflation, hyper inflation, andstabilization—featuring interviews with Yegor Gaidar, Michael Bruno, Jeffrey Sachs, Lezcek Balcerowicz, Persio Arida, and other leading economists—was produced by the Russian production company PERSONA, and was broadcast on Russian Television (Channel 2) in the late afternoons of October 29 and 30, 1994. It was subsequently rebroadcast on various Russian cable systems, members of the Independent Broadcasters Association, and state broadcasters in Ukraine and several other countries of the former Soviet Union. Peter Knight played a major role in helping secure finance and interviews for this project, in particular the visits of the PERSONA crew to Brazil in May 1994.

Video Products on Information Highways for IDSC/RITSEC. Originally envisaged as a series of different video and television products, several projects were undertaken organized by Peter Knight in collaboration with the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) and the Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Center (RITSEC). A video treatment for the series was produced, and considerable footage assembled. Some of the footage shot for these projects was used in Building Africa’s Information Highway, but the other projects have not been completed.

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