Three new organizations join Dgroups
We’re delighted to announce that over the past weeks three new organizations have joined the Dgroups partnership: the Tropical Health & Education Trust (THET), The Broker Online and Enda Energie. Based in London, THET is a specialist global health organisation working for over 20 years to educates, train and supports health workers through partnerships. This principle is central to …
Top Dgroups functionality requests and recent platform enhancement
Since several months now, we have revised our approach for functionality improvement. The new approach decentralises all identification and discussion of functionality improvements to the [redesign] Dgroups, which is open for anyone to join. Currently, the group counts 34 active and engaged members, including Damir Simunic for WA-Research, representatives of the Dgroups Board, Dgroup admins …
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Dgroups Activities Report 2013
In August 2013, Dgroups counts 2.297 communities, with around 167.691 registered users. It delivers around 400.000 email messages each day. The Dgroups Foundation is committed to make Dgroups accessible and affordable to all development organisations. To fulfill its responsibilities, the Board of the Dgroups Foundation prioritized seven work areas in 2013: Platform improvement Service reliability Users’ support for optimum use …
Dgroups.org is restored to normal service
The Dgroups.org website was down over the weekend, apparently due to a temporary technical problem with the Internet Service Provider, which is now fixed. Thanks to the prompt intervention of WA-Research over the weekend, we are now back online. All messages sent during the down-time should be queued normally, so no specific actions are required …
Dgroups Board approves new membership structure
At the Dgroups Annual Partners meeting earlier this year, Dgroups members discussed how to increase the annual income of the Foundation and how to encourage small organisations (less than 1 million Euros annual turnover) to join. A new membership and financial contribution structure was proposed. This was then explored further, adapted and ratified at the subsequent …
Dgroups review, priorities and action plan 2014
For many organizations, Dgroups remains an essential tool, both for internal communications as well as for information and knowledge sharing with and amongst partners. For example, for FARA Dgroups has been a key instrument to connect users working on agriculture and rural development in Africa. Likewise for CTA Dgroups provides a unique solution to the …
Dgroups Annual Partners Meeting – 16 January 2014
In the last Board meeting, the Board of the Dgroups Foundation has set the date for the next Annual Partners Meeting, to take place in Utrecht (ICCO premises) on 16 January 2014, from 11 am to 4.30 pm. The programme of the day includes: Share Fair for exchange of news and experience among Dgroups Partners …
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Dgroups – A global community of users
While WA-Research carries on its work to improve the Dgroups platform and make better and more detailed statistics on groups usage and membership for individual groups, we recently received some updates in terms of overall Dgroups headline figures. We have been using these data and presented them in a live, interactive visualization using Tableu Public. …
Learning from our peers – Email and online forums for health and development professionals
The third Dgroups Online Peer Exchange session took place on Monday 15 July 2013. With a thematic focus on email and online forums for health and development professionals, the session was organised together with the Knowledge Gateway, which is running on the same technology that powers Dgroups and that is developed and supported by WA Research. In this …
Slides from the Dgroups Peer Exchange – 15 July 2013
The third Dgroups Online Peer Exchange session took place last Monday 15 July 2013. For this session, we had the pleasure to have as speaker Angela Nash-Mercado from Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programme and K4Health, who presented the Knowledge Gateway. This platform is running on the same technology that powers Dgroups and that …
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