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Working with 'ComPart' Flowers Introduction Explanation of the tools Vision on ComPart

 

 

Introduction

The ComPart system is being developed within the ICCO-Alliance as to sustain the COMmunication with PARTners. It is a combination of (mostly) free Internet based applications that are all user friendly and stimulate participation and collaboration. One of these applications is the wiki, which is been used right now for publishing this information.In this section of the learning-wiki, the system itself will be explained and you will be able to find manuals and tutorials for all used tools. If you have any questions or comments please use the comment function on this page or send us an email.

 

Explanation of the tools

In the table below you will find the names of all used tools. Each of these tools is described separately. If you click on the name of the tool it will lead you to a page where a description of the tool and its (specific) use within the ComPart system will be described. On that page you will also find a link to a more general description and various manuals and tutorials about the chosen tool.  Furthermore this link leads you to a document with an overview about how to log in to the different tools.

 

Tool	Function
toolbar	navigating more efficently ComPart and the web
google account	access to the differnt google applications [igoogle; calendars; blogger...]
igoogle	'personal' home page with content automatically provided by different sources
feeds	selectively track content, subscribe to it, republish
delicious	indexing and sharing links
wiki	joint document/reference/coordination
blogs	publishing 'news'
calendars	events sharing
dgroups	e-discussion
flickr	photo sharing
slideshare	presentations sharing
blip tv	videos sharing
skype	remote collaboration/communication
interwise	remote collaboration/online training/e-conferences
search	'custom' search engines

 

Vision on ComPart

The ICCO Alliance is changing from a Dutch donor organisation operating from one central office in Utrecht NL into an international network organisation operating from a dozen regional offices around the world. In this network organisation, partners and civil society in the South are co-responsible for policy making and implementation. The present ICCO Alliance Business Plan 2007 - 2010 allows 4 years for this transition to take effect: in 2010 the international network has to be in place.

 

Communication and efficient information systems are of crucial importance to the ICCO Alliance. It is already crucial right now because of the need to inform and to communicate/discuss about the plans for the (immediate) future with partners and civil society in North and South. A future where programmatic work, coresponsibility and decentralization will be the cornerstones of ICCO Alliance's way of working.

 

ICCO Alliance aspires to be an open learning network organisation together with its partners.

One first condition is to create opportunities for partners and other stakeholders to take part in the network organisation. That means access to information, access to policy debate, and transparency of organisation and communication. In general, information should be public unless there are obvious reasons to keep it private.

 

A second condition is that information should flow easily throughout the network and within all organisations involved. Everybody involved should be able to get the information with as little thresholds as possible. Thresholds for instance could consist of the need to install particular (licensed) software on the different networks, the need of several usernames and passwords, or unavailability of the information in the proper language. To a large extent these thresholds can be avoided by using WEB2.0 applications. I.e. applications available to anyone for free (or nearly free) once having an Internet browser available. That is the choice of the ICCO Alliance.

 

ICCO vows to maintain for at least the next five years its websites in the 5 official ICCO working languages: English, Spanish, Fench, Portugese and Dutch. Communication in the 5 languages will be possible. As this requires substantial translation efforts, the vulnerability of the network's communication is recognised. Our vision is that new developments like the Google Translator will rapidly improve that situation but not solve the problem: human attention stays crucial. The working language in the ICCO Alliance international network organisation will be English.

 

We realize not all partners and other stakeholders can be reached in this electronic way, at least not yet. There are technical limitations, e.g. Africa's connectivity, and financial constraints, which force the ICCO Alliance to invest in other means of communication as well. That part of the ComPart programme will be dealt with here as well. Main focus in this policy paper, though, is the electronic communication system.

 

Important is that staff and partners are offered a variety of ways and tools to offer and obtain information. Participants should aim for content that can be re-used across different platforms, should aim to combine web with email with paper with audio/video with face to face with voice. In practice this will prove not easy, but it will grow with the overall picture in mind and keen on cross-fertilisation.

 

 

 

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