The first year of our Association’s existence bore witness to good progress in the better management of human mobility.

After the launch of the Association in Davos in January, we set to work on conceptualizing the Services Platform for Mobile Populations. Our idea is to provide diasporas with a secure and convenient internet facility for all kinds of transactions specific to the needs of mobile populations.

With the Fondation Hassan II, the Moroccan institution charged with maintaining relations with Moroccans abroad, we signed our first MOU. As a result, the Hassan II website is currently being updated to accommodate a Moroccan services platform.

AIM is in active discussion with partners in Russia and India to create jointly with them similar services platforms for their own overseas communities.

We have refined our approach to the Labour Mobility Index and hope to launch it soon. AIM organized a successful and interesting two-day session on international mobility on the occasion of the World Public Forum’s Dialogue of Civilizations in Rhodes, Greece, October 8-11, 2009. The publication by AIM and the World Public Forum of the Rhodes Declaration on Human Mobility, which you will find on this website, marked an important step in encouraging governments and civil society to address mobility as one of the fundamental factors in the development of global society in the 21st century.

The Members of AIM look forward to working with you in 2010 and wish you a peaceful and successful New Year.