Contributions by the Information Network

The value of this online network is that all of these organisations, whether governmental, corporate, NGO or community, may access each other's information, select from it what they need, and contribute to it what others need. Not only direct participants, but any interested party may profit by the network.

The project has provided the following since early 1996:

 

1. A multilingual online network with over 25 online affiliates
providing information from NGOs in Thailand and Japan

2. A multilingual, continuing database on gender in 
Asian modernisation

3. Equipment and technical support for new information
technology to NGOs and government agencies in Japan and Thailand

4. Research papers on women, AIDS, micro-credit, international human
trafficking, and related issues for presentation at the 1996 UNESCO
seminar and for publication in the US and Japan

5. Located an Internet access provider in Thailand to give
free access to NGOs

6. Videos and multimedia presentations on the project's
collaboration with Thai affiliates (produced for the Nippon
Telephone and Telegraph Open Lab, for local organisations, and for donors
to the Thai affiliates)

7. Locating corporate private sponsors for NGOs in northern Thailand

8. Training researcher-volunteers and sending them to participate in
technical support and field work at Thai NGOs;

9. 11 on-site visits to Thai organisations, rural development areas
and women's village groups to gather their information and place it on
the network (visits by project leaders for up to 3 weeks; by
researcher-volunteers for up to 2 months)

10. Consultant work for Japanese and Thai NGOs

Last Updated 18 January 1999

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