Background Why would my organisation want to join Dgroups?  Which organizations form the Dgroups Partnership?

Background

Dgroups, established as a partnership in 2002, is financially supported and managed by its members. Organisations joining Dgroups normally seek a tool that they and their partners can use. They are also committed to supporting Dgroups as a global public good that can help groups and communities work together more effectively. We expect all Dgroups partners to subscribe to the wider goals of Dgroups and to work towards the sustainability of the Dgroups initiative as a whole. 

The partnership is currently administered by ICCO; the new Dgroups 2 platform is hosted by WA Research on behalf of the partnership.

 

We welcome requests from organisations working in international development cooperation, human rights and the quest for global justice to join Dgroups.

 

Organisations can apply to join the Dgroups partnership. Once accepted, we provide a customised 'skin' which reflects the preferred look and feel of the member's Dgroup discussion spaces. Members can create an unlimited number of Dgroups and gain access to top-level support. They also have a significant opportunity/responsibility to shape Dgroups strategy and direction. Membership is set at EUR 4,000 per 12 month period.

 

Why would my organisation want to join Dgroups? 

• Dgroups is specifically oriented to the needs of international development aid: low bandwidth friendly, mailing list centric, discussions on development related issues, and training/help materials which are geared towards the development community.
• Dgroups is a growing community of communities.
• Dgroups is backed by a growing partnership of leading development organizations. Drawing expertise from partners and members, its activities are close to state of the art (technically) and they often spill over into other forms of cooperation.
• Members can have customised skin(s) which provide seamless 'look and feel' integration with the organisation's existing web service.
• Dgroups is completely free from advertising.
• Dgroups is an easy to use platform which supports interaction between groups and communities that don't need (or want) the 'bells and whistles' of a sophisticated CMS.
• As a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it and which aims to create network effects through an 'architecture of participation,' Dgroups is particularly aligned with the emerging Web 2.0 vision (see: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10/web_20_compact_definition.html and/or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0).

 

If you wish to further discuss joining Dgroups, please send a short email outlining your interests and questions to 'dg-coordination AT dgroups.org' (replace ' AT ' with @). We will get back to you immediately. If our interests coincide and there are no hitches, you can expect to join us in a month or two.

 

Which organizations form the Dgroups Partnership? 

See the current list of members.