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- Virtual Health Library of the Americas (Biblioteca Virtual de Salud de las Américas – BVS) - Latin America
Database with scientific and technical health knowledge, which is disseminated via internet for countries in this region. Under Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Información en Ciencias de la Salud (Latin America and the Caribbean Health Sciences Information Center). BVS promotes decentralized production and operation of multimedia information sources, connected to the network, with direct universal access, without geographical or schedule limitations. It has been developed thanks to the collaboration of the countries in the region and of the Pan-American Health Organization (PHO), through BIREME, the PHO operative branch for scientific-technical information. - Calandria – Peru
Asociación de Comunicadores Sociales – Calandria (Social Communicators Association) is a civilian society institution that, using communication, seeks to influence Peru's development and to consolidate democracy, by strengthening its institutions. It trains various actors and institutions, designs communication and coordination diagnoses and strategies, gives media information and production services, gives advisory and orientation on the use of local media, promotes and legitimizes development issues, and promotes acting democratically and assessing democracy. It also produces programs, radio spots, videos, graphic material, and creates proposals to influence communicators, journalists, and communication media, seeking to consolidate public spaces for youths to express themselves and for generational dialogues. - Comunicar Group (Grupo Comunicar) - Spain
A plural forum for education in communication media that, as a professional organization of journalists and professors, intends to encourage and activate the didactic, critical, creative, and plural use of communication media. In addition to carrying out various training activities, it forwards research and has publications such as Revista Comunicar (Comunicar Magazine). - Development Research and Promotion Center (Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo – DESCO) - Peru
This is an NGO devoted to promoting social development and strengthening the skills of excluded sectors in Peru. It has a multi-disciplinary team made up of 65 professionals and technicians. It is widely known for its publishing company that produces publications such as Cuadernos DESCO (DESCO Notebooks), the Praxis Series, and Revista Quehacer (Quehacer Magazine). - Education and Training Center for Sustainable Development (Centro de Educación y Capacitación para el Desarrollo Sustentable - Cecadesu) - Mexico
It is a division of Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de México – Semarnat (Mexican Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat) in charge of promoting actions among individuals, groups, and institutions for the proper handling of natural resources. It forwards awareness and dissemination campaigns on environment issues in different sectors of the Mexican population interested in a lasting application of environmental measures. - International Development Research Centre - Global
Is a public corporation created by the Canadian government to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research. - Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y Desarrollo Sostenible - CLACDS) - Central America
CLACDS was founded to assist public, civic, and private sector leaders to achieve changes toward sustainable development in Central America. It studies and analyzes the problems and opportunities in the region combining applied research, dialogue on this topics, and leader training. - Latin American Educational Communication Institute (Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa - ILCE)
- "Latin American Popular Memoirs" Research Center (Centro de Investigaciones "Memoria Popular Latinoamericana") - Cuba
Its objective is to contribute to recovering the historical memoirs of the Latin American and Caribbean popular movement, to reflect on its practice, and to disseminate the experiences that this Center studies. It is devoted to three lines of action: rescuing verbal memoirs through interviews and round table discussions with the protagonists; rescuing audiovisual memoirs by making videos; and popular education by means of preparing teaching books and videos. - Latin American Social Sciences Council (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales – CLACSO)
This is an international non-governmental organization that today groups more than 130 research centers and post-graduate social science programs in 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Its objectives are to promote and develop research and teaching in the most diverse fields of social sciences as well as to strengthen exchange and cooperation among institutions and researchers inside and out of this region. - North American Environmental Information and Communication Center (Centro de Información y Comunicación Ambiental de Norte América – CICEANA) – Mexico
This is a non-profit organization located in Mexico City that works for the environment using information, communication, and environmental education, for the purpose of creating a new awareness leading to sustainable development. One of CICEANA's most outstanding labors is its Ecology Video Library, one of the most complete, competitive environmental centers in Latin America. - Political Sciences and Public Administration Research and Advanced Studies Center (Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Políticas y Administración Pública) – Mexico
This is a division of Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, interested in producing, applying, evaluating, and disseminating on social development and poverty studies, as well as studies on other regional aspects, related to sociology, politics, and public administration. - Political Studies Institute for Latin America and Africa (Instituto de Estudios Políticos para America Latina y África, Iepala) – Latin America
It has an editorial fund that gathers ample information on the events occurred over the last decades within the framework of north-south relations regarding the Third World. It has started up the International Information Community in Red EuroSur (EuroSur Network), a virtual library of documents and analysis on global topics and countries of the south. - Servinfo –Latin America
An integrated system of information, resources, and contents to serve the needs and demands of the civilian society in matters of cooperation and solidarity. It has several databases among which are educational resources in international cooperation toward development, voluntary programs, financing sources for development projects, and sensitization and cooperation networks and entities towards development. - Web of Information for Development (WIDE) Initiative - Global
Web of Information for Development (WIDE) includes two initiatives to give more visibility to developing country expertise, foster communications and promote more effective technical cooperation among developing countries "WIDE Online" is an Internet-based public access database containing user-maintained data on experts, institutions and 'best' practices in the South. "WIDE InterLink" is a network of stakeholders sharing WIDE Online to build capacity for technical cooperation among developing countries.
- Agencia Informativa Púlsar – Latinoamérica
Pulsar began in March 1996 to provide independent and community radio stations in Latin America with local news stories, public service advertisements and other information useful to civil society. It was the first initiative of its kind in Latin America. From 38 subscribers, Pulsar grew to more than 1,000 subscribers in 2 years, Most are radio stations, but some are NGOs and individuals that use the information for different purposes - news, teaching, political analysis, etc. All services are provided free of charge. - Journalists Against Corruption - Periodistas Frente a la Corrupción (PFC) - Latin America
PFC is a regional anti-corruption project that strengthens democratisation processes in Latin America by "promoting and facilitating quality and ethical watchdog journalism and supporting journalists and media dedicated to investigating and exposing waste, unethical conduct and corruption in government and other parts of society." PFC is an arm of Probidad / Probity - LaNeta – Mexico
Civil organization created as an electronic communications service for non-governmental organizations, other non-profit organizations, and agencies linked to working with these. LaNeta's experience is focused on the non-governmental sector. As an APC Mexican node, LaNeta enables national NGOs linking with others in more than 30 countries. Likewise, it offers information from the experiences that organizations around the world develop in a great variety of fields. - On-line Information System for Rural Development - SILDER (Sistema de Información en Línea para el Desarrollo Rural)
A platform with three databases and information in Internet for all organizations and persons interested in rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Information Base for Persons: potential service proposals, peasants, professionals, technicians, and experts; Information Base for Institutions: public, private, and social organizations associated with rural development; Information Base for Publications: distinct types of publications and place the complete texts may be obtained. - Press Room (Sala de Prensa) – Mexico
On-line non-profit network sustained individually by journalists, professionals, and academics from 23 countries in the Americas and Europe. It offers journalists the possibility to accede, without cost, to on-line information resources, to query databases, to participate in international forums, to update themselves in the use of new technologies, to broaden their bibliographical knowledge, and to exchange experiences and resources to develop their own knowledge and skills. - Radio Nederland
Radio Netherlands is a multimedia organization that covers regional developments in areas of the world without free media. Radio Netherlands focuses on providing relevant programming. They continually examine the media landscape of their targets, looking for ways to complement what is already there and design the best balance of radio, television and Internet programming to be effective.
- ALRED - Latin America
Latin American network of broadcasting stations that produce, transmit, and share programs using Internet and satellite. It offers information, entertainment, educational, and evangelization programs that complement the daily programming of the local broadcasting stations and the possibility to be integrated into a national and continental network. - Ibero-American Radio Chain (Cadena Iberoamericana de Radio – ALAS) - Latin America
Satellite radio chain with offices in Miami and North Carolina in the United States and in Quito-Ecuador. It produces and distributes by satellite high social-interest programming for radio. It offers its affiliates programming that adjusts to their specific radio needs. - Inter-sector Adolescents and Sexuality Network (Red Inter-sectorial de Adolescentes y Sexualidad – RIAS) – Ecuador
This network is made up of government institutions, NGOs and private companies that contribute to this project their conceptual and operating experience. RIAS develops training services on reproduction and sexual education within the communities, promoting communications strategies for health and seeking to involve youth within its network. - Latin American Cooperation Network for Municipal Development (Red Latinoamericana de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Municipal –Redcomún) - Latin America
This is an electronic communications network for the National Local Government Associations and its main objective is to promote the municipalities and their national associations to adopt Internet as a communications and information system. - Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Communication Network (Red de Comunicación Ambiental Latinoamericana y del Caribe) – Latin America
This group is made up of regional environmental journalism and ecological journalists associations, and its objectives are to promote exchange, cooperation, and integration among Latin American and Caribbean environmental journalists, to create and promote strategies and activities to train the network members and to motivate and broaden the coverage of environmental topics through communications media. - On-line Southern Voices (Voces del Sur en Línea) – Latin America
Voces del Sur en Línea's objective is to support the civilian society organizations in Latin America that have a site in Internet and that work for sustainable development and human rights. One of its purposes is to achieve that these organizations produce and publish in Internet quality information that reflects its own point of view on the topics that are being dealt with. - RADIPAZ – Latin America
The Red Latinoamericana de Radios para una Cultura de Paz – RADIPAZ (Latin American Radio Network for a Culture of Peace) originated from various activities that UNESCO carried out worldwide and on a regional level. Its objective is to promote the Culture of Peace, reciprocal knowledge, and the integration of Latin American countries through joint harmonious actions through radio production and broadcasting in its different genres and modalities, thus making up a Radio Station Network. - Women's Educational Network (Rede Mulher de Educación) – Brazil
It promotes and facilitates the interconnection among women's groups throughout Brazil constituting a service network in popular feminist education.
- APC Latin America & Caribbean ICT Policy Monitor
Aims to enable the consideration of civil society needs in ICT policy development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The ultimate aim is that governments and policy makers recognise that access to and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is a basic human right. In Spanish. - Bellanet
Bellanet is an international initiative working with the development community to increase collaboration. They support partnerships by providing advice and assistance on more effective use of information and communication. - Book Aid International
Book Aid International works in partnership with organisations in developing countries to support local initiatives in literacy, education, training and publishing. They provide relevant books and information to those in greatest need — to enable people to realise their potential and contribute to the development of their communities. - Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
The CIHI serves under contract as a health data reference bureau for the Population, Health and Nutrition Center (PHNC) of USAID's Global Bureau. CIHI provides a broad range of technical and analytical services that are critical to the planning, funding, management, monitoring, and evaluation of USAID's programs worldwide. - Central American Health Institute ICAS (Instituto Centroamericano de la Salud)
The Instituto CentroAmericano de la Salud is a Central American, non-government, non-profit organisation without political affiliations, dedicated exclusively to the improvement of the health of the population of Central America. - Choike
Aimed at improving the visibility and impact of southern NGOs and civilsociety organisations and what they publish and produce on the Internet.Operated by the Third World Institute (ITeM), Choike helps users find NGOinformation, provides links to NGO sites, publicises NGO campaigns, andindexes hundreds of NGO web pages. - Computer Aid International
Recycles and repairs donated computers for re-use in schools and community organisations in developing countries. - CRIS Info
A public list for information and questions regarding the campaign forCommunication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS), which aims to'develop a common vision and understanding of the information society ...and to draw up a strategic plan of action for successfully adapting to thenew society'. The site is available in English, Spanish, and Russian. - Directory of Development Organizations 2002
Can be viewed and downloaded in PDF format. The Directory lists 25,000 contacts of International Organizations, Governments, Private Sector Institutions, Development Agencies, Universities, Research and Training Institutes, NGOs/PDOs, Grantmakers, Banks, Microfinance Institutions and Development Consulting Firms. It can be viewed in English, Spanish, or French. - Educaweb
Spanish portal. A complete educational search engine that enables access to more than 35,000 resources: courses, studies, scholarships, educational centers, and other topics of interest. - Fidamerica
A network of projects and institutions devoted to the fight against rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean through improving knowledge and information management systems that increase efficiency and the impact of sustainable agricultural development initiatives in poor rural regions. - Games for Cooperation and for Peace (Juegos para la Cooperación y para la Paz)
An international and intercultural compendium of games related to peace education for girls and boys of various ages and educational backgrounds. - Global ChildNet
Global ChildNet combines information from many sources to provide bibliographies, full-text documents, referrals and database searches on specific topics. - Infoamérica
A portal specialized in Communication and directed to the nations of Spanish and Portuguese languages, that constitute the Iberoamérica cultural space. Is an academic initiative, of the Journalism Department at Malaga University (Spain). Infoamérica defends the democratic culture values and promotes the full exercise of the freedom of press and the right to the information in Iberoamérica. Infoamérica wants to become the biggest platform of contents in Spanish and Portuguese languages on Media, Communication, academic aspects, etc. - Latin America in Movement (América Latina en Movimiento)
Focuses on the socio-political processes taking place in the region, from the viewpoint of social movements. It contains a news section, a documental archive, information on campaigns and events and links to similar sites and resources. Multilingual - documents are in their original language (mainly Spanish).Educaweb - Manuel Buendia Foundation (Fundación Manuel Buendia – FMB)
This foundation seeks to promote analysis, debate, and human resource training in matters of social communication and journalism. - The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development
The Consultative Group is an international, inter-agency group dedicated to improving the condition of young children at risk. Working on several levels to keep young children on the agenda of policy-makers, funders and programme developers, the Consultative Group consists of a broad partnership of international organizations, a Secretariat and a group of Regional representatives active in ECCD networks in diverse regions of the Majority world. - The Regional AIDS Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean (SIDALAC)
The overall objective of SIDALAC is to contribute to the mobilization of national and international efforts against AIDS and other STDs in Latin America and the Caribbean through enhanced awareness of decision makers in the region, and the support and development of a new generation of control programs with a specific regional scope for Latin America and the Caribbean. - UNICEF Radio Spots
Radio Public Service Announcements (PSAs) promoting child rights worldwide are freely available from UNICEF. The spots are up to one minute in length and can be reviewed and downloaded. CD copies can also be provided, subject to availability. Examples of campaigns available are: Polio eradication, Vitamin A, and 'Say Yes for Children'. Available in English, French or Spanish.
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Reviews on communication by the World Association for Christian Communication – WACC, which are published 10 times a year and are distributed in 120 countries. - (ANDI) News Agency for Children's Rights
ANDI is an NGO working to raise awareness, within the media, towards the promotion & defense of children's & adolescents rights - APC News
Monthly e-newsletter, featuring news & activities from across the globe. Available in English or Spanish. Published by the Association for Progressive Communications - Azimuths
A review on videos produced by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). There are more than 240 documentals on topics such as environment, health, and children's rights, among others. - Changemakers.net.
An online publication of ASHOKA that focuses on social entrepreneurship and change. Available in English or Spanish. - DevMedia
An exchange of information and news about how communication tools can promote development and democracy. Available in English, French or Spanish. - Enredando Review (Revista Enredando)
Electronic review that publishes a wide gamut of analyses and reflection on the impact of Internet and of the Network Society. - Information Society Observatory (El Observatorio de la Sociedad de Información)
An on-line press review that seeks to create awareness in the ethnic, legal, and social part of the challenges that have arisen from the new information and from new communication technologies. - JBCC - Jornal Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação(Brazilian Journal in Communication Sciences)
Weekly electronic bulletin published by UNESCO/UMESP Cathedra for Regional Development. Its purpose is to disseminate the activities in the area of social communication both in the national and international environments. The PET – Special Training Program team sponsored by CAPES/Mec is involved in this work also. In Portuguese. - Jornal da Folkcom
Online publication by Rede Folkcom, a new network of researchers on the communication and folklore phenomena with support from the Cathedra of UNESCO on Communication and Regional Development; UMESP Methodist University of São Paulo in affiliation with the Social Communication Program/Journalism at the Federal de Viçosa university (UFV). The research nuclei Folkcommunication of ALAIC and INTERCOM join in with their collaborative efforts. In Portuguese. - Media Network
Weekly newsletter, covers regional developments in areas of the world without free media. Published by Radio Netherlands - Multimeda Communication Notebooks (Cuadernos de comunicación multimedia)
Annual review published by Universidad Complutense de Madrid Biblioteconomy and Documentation Department Multimedia Documentation Service. - Tertulia
Weekly newsletter of the latest news on women & women's rights from around the Spanish-speaking world. Available in English & Spanish. - Third Sector
A non-profit bimonthly publication belonging to the Fundación Del Viso that is supported by the Kellogg Foundation. It is aimed, in general, at the philanthropy movement in Argentina and Latin America. This is an informative tool for NOG organizations supported by the Kellogg Foundation. It is an information tool for NGOs and the business sector.
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