Dgroups: Still going and growing – and blogging again!
Welcome to the revived Dgroups blog! There have been a number of important developments in the past few months. The new Board of the Foundation has been busy since its election in April 2009, while WA Research has keep on improving the platform and its performances – unfortunately in both cases the communications have not been at the same …
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The Global Mechanism joins Dgroups
As of July 2009, the Global Mechanism (GM) joined the Dgroups Partnership. From the GM website: The Global Mechanism (GM) was established by Article 21 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). It began its operations in October 1998. The GM is a subsidiary body of the UNCCD. Its original functions of general …
Dgroups platforms updates
As you might have already noticed WA Research has recently released some new updates in functionalities and features to further develop the Dgroups platform. Public interface From the Dgroups homepage, users can now login to their groups or join new groups in a much clearer way. Directory of groups When clicking on ‘Join a group’ …
Dgroups members meet in The Hague
On 15 and 16 April, the members of the Dgroups partnership meet in the Netherlands. The group last met in The Hague in January 2007. Since then, an elected executive committee has worked towards: In 2007/2008: Moving the dgroups 1 platform out of IDRC (to IGLOO) In 2008-2009: Migration to a new platform and a …
Dgroups Foundation established
Earlier this month the Dgroups Foundation was established in the Netherlands. After early years incubated by Bellanet/IDRC as a project, Dgroups members decided that a legal entity was needed at the heart of the partnership. The intention is to keep the Foundation small and smart: It will have a Board elected from members of the …
How many migrated with Dgroups?
On February 13th, we ‘closed’ the original Dgroups installation hosted in Canada – switching to the new platform. By February 20th, all the data was fully migrated to Switzerland. How many made the migration? Our colleagues at WA research report: “As of today we have 122,187 users registered in 2,227 ‘active’ and 440 ‘archived’ Dgroups …
Dgroups Swiss update
This week, Maarten Boers and Peter Ballantyne were in Switzerland to meet with WA Research on the status of the Dgroups migration process. We also met with Dgroups members Helvetas and Swiss Development Cooperation. Helvetas has so far been gradually introducing and using Dgroups into its activities. It also acts as sponsor for the very …
Dgroups 2.0: Build and Migration
The Dgroups Executive Committee agreed a contract with WA research to build the next version of Dgroups. The contract was signed last week, Thursday. WA Research SA has been in operation since January, 2002, with a mission to build and support collaborative solutions for the international development sector. Customers include the World Health Organisation, the …