Dear GKD Members, Please see below for an announcement about Source <www.asksource.info>, a website offering searchable databases of health, disability and participatory communication information resources, which was re-launched last month. Source is an International Information Support Centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information in development. Please forward the announcement to interested colleagues or networks.
Of particular interest to GKD list members might be the new Source 'Key list' on Using ICTs for development. This list highlights key resources for building capacity within NGOs to creatively and effectively use information and communication technologies. The resources will be useful for people who want to use electronic communication methods for knowledge management, documentation, facilitating discussions or networks, promoting an organisation or project, or distributing publications. The resources give practical and strategic guidance on using websites, email, databases and online discussions. See <http://www.asksource.info/res_library/participatory.htm> and select 'Using ICTs for Development'. We would welcome suggestions of information resources (websites, manuals, case studies, etc) to include on this list: follow the link above for information on who to send these to. Kind regards, Daphne Kouretas Information Officer Healthlink Worldwide 56-64 Leonard Street London EC2A 4JX UK ************************************************************* Innovative new design for health and disability information website http://www.asksource.info Visit the new Source website to see our fresh new design, offering: - User friendly, accessible searching of 25,000 health, disability and communication resources - The opportunity to promote your organisation and materials through the site - Signposting to key resources in priority topic areas - Free subscription to bi-monthly 'What's new in Source' email bulletin - Information and support for resource centres Highlighting selected and reviewed resources People interested in health, disability and communication issues worldwide can search Source's user friendly databases, containing relevant information resources that have been fed into Source directly from programmes in developing countries. Read abstracts, locate distributors, and click on links to full text documents online. New browsable topic areas are dedicated to disability, inclusion and development; HIV and AIDS; mother and child health; and participatory communication, and feature Source's successful Key lists of essential resources. Key list titles include HIV/AIDS and disability, Nutrition and development, Communication for social change, Culture and development, plus many more. Gathering resources from the places that count Development practitioners are encouraged to promote their own resources and contacts by adding them directly to the new site. If suitable their materials will appear in the following issue of 'What's new in Source', sent to 2000 key organisations and individuals across the world and forwarded to many online discussion lists. What's new in Source Visitors to <www.asksource.info> can also sign up to receive the bi-monthly 'What's new in Source' email bulletin, giving them details of all the latest resources added to Source. If you can't access the Source website, email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to sign up for 'What's new in Source'. Supporting resource centres Resource centres can read or download advice and guidance on all aspects of setting up and running a resource centre in the new 'Support for resource centres' section of the Source website. Source is an International Information Support Centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability. Source is a collaboration of the Centre for International Child Health, a research and teaching department within the Institute of Child Health in London, Exchange, a networking and learning programme that promotes effective health communication, Handicap International, a disability and development NGO, and Healthlink Worldwide, a health communication NGO. For more information contact Myrrhine Crowe at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
