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Southlinks information (UNV)
``` Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 11:02:14 -0700 From: mpeirano@IGC.APC.ORG Subject: Southlinks information (UNV)
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United Nations Volunteers Southlinks
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COMMUNITY-BASED INFORMATION USEFUL FOR ACTION
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Southlinks is an initiative of United Nations Volunteers aimed at stimulating the sharing of information among community groups, especially but not exclusively those who deal with technologies and resource management. In the context of this project, information must be immediately "useful for action," it should aim at making replicable an experience or a technology, and have at its original source the actions of practitioners at the community level.
Southlinks aims at making contributions to a model of grass roots information sharing which takes advantage of information technology development, especially in the field of electronic networking. UNV seeks new roles for volunteers in the field of information sharing, and new opportunities to encourage the cross-fertilization of ideas across regions and continents. It is also an attempt to bring more non-mainstream knowledge systems into the flow of the electronic networks, and in this way share with the dominant knowledge systems the search for sustainable and equitable development.
The attached document An exchange format for information useful for action attempts to define the mechanisms for a systematic approximation to an environment where this information can flow as freely as possible, and reach the people who can "put it in the ground," who can make it go to work.
Southlinks is looking for organizations who have experience in brokering information to community groups, or who are networks of community groups capable of generating and using information in the field. The ways and means of possible cooperation are described in the attached document.
There is no intention to centralise either information or to impose formats beyond what is practical. There is a wide diversity of information projects, collections, and experiences which are suitable vehicles, and the intention is to provide the optimal environment for the coordination and enlargement of existing networks, and the far reaching propagation of the information they use and generate. The purpose of the document is to offer a suitable model for new initiatives, or for new distribution projects.
Avenues for cooperation
Technical Information Networking
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Technical support Adoption of exchange formats Computing platforms Training of "barefoot journalists" Training Personal exchange opportunities Access to established networks Common information environment Electronic publication Specialised area providers of collections
Southlinks has a number of contact points (Regional Resource Centres) and technical contact points, from where support to new initiatives can be coordinated regionally.
Southlinks Coordinator
Miguel Peirano PO Box HP126 Hermit Park QLD 4812 AUSTRALIA Tel +61 77 753501 FAX +61 77 256489 E-mail: miguel@unv.ch
Southlinks Asia
Social Work and Research Centre Tilonia 305816 Madaganj, Rajasthan INDIA Tel: +91 1464 3016 FAX: +91 141 40909 E-mail: swrc@doe.ernet.in Contact: Parveen Sikand & Susan Abraham
Southlinks Latin America
Colegio Verde de Villa de Leyva Villa de Leyva, Boyac COLOMBIA Tel: +57 87 320514 FAX: +57 1 2828742 E-mail: southlinks@cvvl.colnodo.apc.org Contact: Sylvia Cadena & Noe Jimenez
Southlinks East Africa
African Centre for Technology Studies PO Box 45917 Nairobi KENYA Tel: +254 2 741651 FAX: +254 2 743995 E-mail: acts@elci.gn.apc.org Contact: Myra Navarro-Mukii
Southlinks Southern Africa
SANGOnet 13th floor Longsbank Building 187 Bree Street PO Box 31 Johannesburg 2000 SOUTH AFRICA Tel: +27 11 8386944 Fax: +27 11 8386310 Email: southlinks@wn.apc.org Contact: Anriette Estherhuysen
Documentation Project
Global Village Action Network Falls Brook Centre RR# 1 Hartland New Brunswick EOJ INO CANADA Tel: +1 506 3758143 FAX:+1 506 3754221 E-mail: fbcja@web.apc.org Contact: Jean Arnold
Technical Contact Points:
Latin America
COLNODO Carrera 23 #39-82 Santaf de Bogot COLOMBIA Tel +57 1 2697181 / 2444692 FAX +57 1 2444984 E-mail: julian@colnodo.apc.org Contact: Julian Casasbuenas
Asia
India-Link c/ Indian Social Institute 10 Institutional Area New Delhi INDIA Tel +91 11 4625015 E-mail: leo@unv.ernet.in Contact: Leo Fernandez
Africa
SANGOnet (address above) ```
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