My name is Marina Japaridze. I am Content Coordinator for Georgia
Development Gateway Union.
I fully agree with those thinking that it's time we discussed some
content-related issues, especially those of topics list and content
management.
How centralized the topic list needs to be; how strictly should Country
Gateway (CG) content coordinators follow Development Gateway (DG)
list while developing their own CG versions.
These are questions that need to be duly addressed. Even now we encounter some
difficulties in our work with content providers and our actual and potential
topic-managers, whose vision of how this or that topic should be managed
and presented in most cases does not fit DG guidelines.
Best wishes.
Marina Japaridze
Content Coordinator GeDG Union
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1 May 2001, Alex Wilks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Many, if not most, of you were part of the discussion last October-November
>about the World Bank's Development Gateway plans. I thought you would be
>interested in a new briefing we have put together to outline the problems
>with the Gateway's all-encompassing approach to content management on
>development. Many of the comments given on this list have not been
>adequately dealt with and the Bank's team is rushing ahead to launch the
>Gateway on 1 July.
>
>The briefing contains extracts from some of the postings on this list last
>year and from the latest Gateway documents. It concludes that the Gateway
>has useful elements, but that its core content management approach is
>unworkable and not desirable. It will discriminate against those people who
>most lack a voice on the Net and fail to capture cross-cutting issues such
>as gender and climate change.
>
>The World Bank should focus on how it can help the continued emergence of
>diverse, decentralised content approaches on the internet, or face a public
>campaign against the Gateway. Some campaign suggestions are outlined,
>including some which use the Internet itself.
>
>
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