From: R.Gracia-Luque@sussex.ac.uk (Rosario Gracia Luque)
Dear All: Please find enclosed some information we hope you will find
useful. Many thanks
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Welcome to ID21: the new Development Research reporting service
Academics, consultants and NGOs based in the UK produce a constant
stream of development research findings. Yet all too often, those who
make or implement development policy are unaware of this new
information and its policy implications. Recent developments in
information technologies can help to bridge this knowledge gap. The
UK Department for International Development is backing an Internet-
based system which links development research and researchers
directly to policymakers and development practitioners around the
world through a new website. Hosted by the Institute of Development
Studies, the initiative is known as ID21 - or Information for
Development in the 21st Century. Its key feature is a searchable
online collection of short, one-page (500-word) digests of the latest
social and economic research studies across 30 key topic fields.
ID21 is now online and can be found at:
But many users around the world have only slow or intermittent
Internet access and are therefore unable to browse the World-Wide Web
as freely as they would like. Other users simply prefer email. To
cater for these users we have created an email newsletter called
ID21NEWS.
ID21NEWS brings you regular updates of the latest research findings
which have been added to the ID21 collection. A short summary tells
you about each study and a clickable web-link takes you directly to
the full text of the digest on the web, thereby saving you from
navigating a series of web pages. We are currently developing a
system to enable you to request each digest automatically via email.
This should become available later this year.
How to subscribe to ID21NEWS
Simply send a blank email message to: id21news@ids.ac.uk In the
subject field include the words: subscribe id21news
(NB: to unsubscribe, follow the same procedure but substituting the
word "unsubscribe" in place of "subscribe".)
We hope you will e-mail us at id21@ids.ac.uk to let us know if you
like ID21 or if you have practical suggestions for making our online
services more useful or accessible to you in the future. And please
forward this message to colleagues who may also be interested in our
service.
Alistair Scott
ID21
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