Dgroups new look – More than a facelift
During the two online technical sessions organised in the context of the 2010 Dgroups Partners meeting, representatives from member organisations as well as groups administrators had the opportunity to preview the new look and improved functionalities of the redesigned Dgroups website. For the sessions, Damir Simunic of WA Research prepared a video to show the new look …
Dgroups partners meeting 2010
As agreed by the Dgroups Board, the 2010 Dgroups partners meeting will be held on line in the week beginning 29 November 2010. It will consist of a series of online conversations, through emails and other e-tools, where Dgroups members will have the opportunity to discuss and interact with each other, with the Board of …
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’ …
Reflecting on the Dgroups partnership
Earlier today, members of the Dgroups Partnership completed their meeting in The Hague. It was followed by a brief meeting of the new Board. For the first time, members could participate virtually in some parts of the discussions, opening a new chapter for Dgroups. New Helvetas Board member Riff Fullan reflects on the discussions: [youtube_video …
Dgroups elects new Board
Today in The Hague, members of the Dgroups Partnership elected a new Board to guide the Partnership in the coming years. The organizations elected were: Helvetas Hivos ICCO IICD Sula Batsu
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 …