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------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Tori Holmes" <tori.holmes@oneworld.net> To: "Open Knowledge Workspace" <okn@dgroups.org> Date sent: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:00:02 -0000 Hello and Happy New Year to you all. And very belated thanks for all your suggestions and ideas shared over the last few months, they have been really useful and we will do our best to act on them. Watch this space for another OKN update before too long... I wanted to draw your attention to a new resource/link I've just added to the OKN dgroup at www.dgroups.org/groups/okn: Sharing Knowledge for Community Development and Transformation: A Handbook A handbook written by Dr. Kingo Mchombu for men and women working in villages, towns and rural areas who wish to transform their communities through information sharing. The author is the Head of the Department of Information and Communication Studies at the University of Namibia and a leading scholar on information and rural development. Sharing Knowledge is published by the Oxfam Horn of Africa Capacity Building Program with the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). For those of you who want to go straight to the paper it's at: http://www.oxfam.ca/publications/SharingKnowledge.htm Chapter headings are as follows: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Information and Human Development Chapter 3: The Content of Information and Knowledge in Community Information Resource Centres Chapter 4: Information Sharing and Processing in the Community Chapter 5: Keeping the Community Information Resource Centre Alive Appendix 1: Library Unit Operations in the CIRC If anyone without easy internet access wants me to email them the PDF file please let me know. best wishes, Tori ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tori Holmes Consultation and Set-Up Phase Coordinator Open Knowledge Network OneWorld International 17th Floor 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP t + 44 (0)20 7091 4546 (direct line) f + 44 (0)20 7840 0798 www.oneworld.net www.openknowledge.net ------- End of forwarded message -------
