Address:
14, Cité Griset
75011 Paris, France
References of NGO/Non-Profit Status:
Association Loi 1901 (N. de dossier : 139592P)
About your organization:
Based in Paris, France, Internews International is an association of over 30 non-governmental media organizations working together to support freedom of expression around the world. II has "operational relations" status with UNESCO and is accredited with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
"The Association has the purpose of contributing by all tangible or intangible means to the creation and development of a worldwide network of Members in order to facilitate production, dissemination and circulation of, and access to, independent information."
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Your organization principles:
Internews International® fights for the rights of journalists and the media through a network of media lawyers. It enhances tolerance and understanding through its support of independent media in emerging democracies, produces and distributes innovative television programming, and uses the media to reduce conflict within and between countries. Internews International's programs are based on the conviction that vigorous and diverse mass media form an essential cornerstone of a free and open society.
Links to any existing web sites operated by the NGO:
www.internews.tv
www.internews.fr
www.internews.org
www.internews.am
www.internews.az
www.internews.ge
www.internews.kz
www.internewskosova.org
www.internews.kg
www.internews.ua
www.nai.org.af
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Your project in a few words:
Create a knowledge management platform to increase the flow of information and expertise that is critical to the work of the members of Internews International.
Your project objectives:
Create a mutlilingual information repository accessible from everywhere (potentially allowing offline use)
Allow very easy, non-intrusive, submission of all type of digital information (documents, media, email, bookmarks, slideshares, mindmaps...)
Allow comments, questions around documents, and semantic tagging of these annotations also.
Allow declarative access rights for documents and
Allow very easy semantic tagging of documents according to several perspectives (geographical, project life cycle, thematic,...), including semantic analysis (through opencalais for instance)
Allow very easy extraction and tagging of paragraphs or sections inside documents.
Allow declarative and deductive semantic profiling, and social network topology to notify users of interesting documents related to their work and interests.
Allow multi-faceted, explorative and educative browsing of the knowledge repository.
Focus on usability flow and unobtrusive functionalities.
Success factors:
Adoption by non technical users. Adoption by IT teams. Steady increase of submitted, then semantically tagged, documents, emails, bookmarks, contacts. Participation.
Value factors:
If the system contributes to make II members better informed about geographical, thematic, funding issues.
If the system contributes to strenghten the collaboration between II members.
If the users recognize the value of contributing and sharing knowledge, and participate in extracting useable bits of knowledge embedded into wider scoped documents.
