Development Gateway Website

The Development Gateway
helps communities, organizations, and individuals build partnerships,
share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty. It is an impressive
portal on development issues and really worthwhile to visit because of
its balance of information wealth and its many offers how to actively
participate in the development NGO world (www.developmentgateway.org)


From its mission statement:

What is the Development Gateway portal?
The Development Gateway (the Gateway) is a portal website on
development issues, from which users can access information,
resources, and tools, and into which they can contribute their own
knowledge and experience. It creates a common platform for shared
material, dialogue, and problem-solving that is easy to access and
navigate through. The Gateway enables those in the development field
to share information, easily communicate, and build communities of
practice around significant challenges from the grassroots up.
Currently it includes the World Bank Group, members of the public and
private sectors, and civil society groups.

The Development Gateway is about collaboration. It's about making it
easier for all of us who are involved in development to find our way
around the large and ever-growing mass of information available
online, and bringing new resources to the development community. It's
about sharing information, finding solutions--at all levels, and
talking to each other. And most of all it's about working together to
empower communities and improve the lives of the poorest among us.

Who is the Gateway for?
The Gateway is intended to serve the needs of a broad array of
stakeholders, including developing countries, the official donor
community, civil society, the private sector, and other key partners.
The Gateway assists these stakeholders by providing links to ideas and
good practice, information about development activities and trends,
funding, and commercial opportunities. Local government in developing
countries, community representatives, and NGOs are expected to play
vital roles in Gateway governance, editorial management, and content
development.

Services
Gateway services includes online training modules, research findings,
best practices and ideas, case studies, procurement services,
information on development projects, funding, commercial
opportunities, product reviews, news, jobs, and directories -- all
tailored to the needs of specific audiences such as community leaders,
policymakers, local government officials, private investors, and
academics.

Topics
A wide range of development topics are included, and the Gateway draws
on a team of content managers and subject specialists and other
contributors from the development community, to evaluate, process, and
present content. Some 20 development topics areas -- poverty, gender,
water, food security and others -- are being developed and displayed
on the site as examples of how the knowledge sharing concepts of the
Gateway will be developed in the future.

Country Gateways
Country Gateways will help people to use the power of the Internet to
act locally. These Gateways will be based on local content--from
governments at all levels, from communities, from civil society, and
from businesses. They will strengthen networks of development
communities, help people interact with each other more effectively,
and build on the efforts of everyone working in development. InfoDev
(Information for Development Program) is currently providing grants to
plan for the creation of Country Gateways in partnership with the
Development Gateway. Currently 32 Country Gateway teams have received
grants and are working on the planning stage of portal creation.
Approximately a dozen countries are substantially ready for
implelemtation. For further information, please visit:
http://www.infodev.org/gateway








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