Website: www.reliefweb.int

• ReliefWeb is the world's premier electronic clearinghouse for those needing timely information on humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters – designed specifically to help the humanitarian community improve its response to emergencies
• Launched in October 1996 to serve the needs of the international relief community and entrenched by GA resolution 51/194 on 10 February 1997
• Cornerstone of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs information dissemination mechanism
• Site updated 24 hours a day from 3 international time zones: New York, Geneva, and Kobe
• Searchable database of over 150,000 UN documents, policy studies and analyses, dating back to 1981
• Used by government agencies, international bodies, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, the academic community, media and the general public in more than 170 countries
• More than 20 million documents served on 20 complex emergencies and 1100 natural disasters, from 700 information sources
• The site receives up to 60,000 page requests per day, or 1,000,000 hits per week. Total hits topped 100 million in 2001
• Financial tracking database for 21 complex emergencies
• More than 1600 maps available in a searchable database
• Background section with more than 7000 geographical and substantive links
• Operates with a staff of 6 in New York, 5 in Geneva and 2 in Kobe. The project has a total budget of US$ 1.4 million

Alertnet

Website: www.alertnet.org

AlertNet provides global news, communications and logistics services to the international disaster relief community and the public. Reuters 150 years' experience reporting from disaster zones around the world allows AlertNet to give disaster relief organizations reliable information, fast.

Anyone can access the public pages, which have a live news feed from Reuters together with articles describing how relief agencies are responding to the latest humanitarian crises.

Non-governmental aid agencies working in international relief can access additional reference material, a more extensive news feed and an area to exchange information between professionals. Agencies can apply online for a password.

AlertNet is funded and run by Reuters Foundation -- an educational and humanitarian trust created by Reuters, the global news and information group. The aim is to put Reuters core skills of speed, accuracy and freedom from bias at the service of the humanitarian community.

AlertNet has won a Popular Communication award for technological innovation, a NetMedia European Online Journalism Award 2000 for its coverage of natural disasters and has been named a Millennium Product by the British Government - an award for outstanding applications of innovative technologies.

Propoor

Website: www.propoor.org

ProPoor is a non-profit organization registered in Kolkata, erstwhile Calcutta (India), Singapore and Atlanta, Georgia (USA).

ProPoor has over 500 local aid organizations in Asia ranging from a wide variety of areas.

The ProPoor InfoTech Centre Trust is registered at Rajkot in Gujarat (India).

A small organization established in 1998, ProPoor InfoTech Centre is committed to the democratic dissemination of information and sustainable development initiatives to respond to the needs of under represented and marginalized sectors of society in the South Asia.

ProPoor has developed an important Internet portal containing comprehensive information on South Asian Non Governmental / Voluntary Organizations, Donors and Funding Agencies, Events, Projects, Jobs and Resumes related to social development; Appeals and Success Stories of individuals as well as organisations and other relevant Links. The portal also provides a free website to NGOs / VOs.

A non-profit making website addressing issues related to social development and instrumental in propagation of information relevant to it.

The ProPoor team spread in Rajkot, Kolkata, New York, and New Delhi, is constantly assimilating information relevant to social development for democratic dissemination through the website.

The various categories of information include a directory of organisations working in the areas of poverty eradication, child labour, gender equality, networking, socio-economic development, health, human rights, rural development, education, democracy and other initiatives related to social development. There are sections hosting detailed development news (updated daily), project reports, discussions, appeals as well as success stories. The site also provides the links to donor agencies and other similar websites.

NETAID

Website: www.netaid.org

Our mission is to build an active network of people and organizations in developed countries committed to ending extreme poverty around the world.

In September 2000 world leaders committed themselves to cutting poverty in half by 2015. NetAid brings people together in ways that will help achieve this goal.

What We Do

NetAid matches those that want to help with those that need support:

• People who would like to "do more" to support the poor in developing countries, with
• Excellent groups and projects throughout the developing world,
• With methods that are sustainable and will produce measurable results.

• Working through partnerships: Rather than re-invent the wheel, NetAid works through a global network of partners, including the UN, which has offices throughout the developing world.
• Building direct connections: We make the abstract concrete by connecting people directly to the projects and organizations they support. The Internet is our key tool.
• Making the case for change: We let people know how close we are to real progress, and the difference their commitment would make to the world's poorest families and children.

Charity Village

Website: www.charityvillage.ca

Canada's super site for the nonprofit sector - 3,000 pages of news, jobs, information and resources for executives, staffers, donors, and volunteers. If philanthropy and volunteerism are part of your world, this is your place.

Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)

Website: www.irinnews.org/frontpage.asp

What is IRIN?

When crisis or disaster hits a country, communications are often one of the first casualties. Reliable sources dry up, government agencies collapse, media images do not give the full picture. Without constantly updated and accurate information on washed-out roads, bombed airfields, landmines, disease-infested water, epidemics, or civil unrest and outbreaks of violence, it is impossible to respond effectively. People die and money and supplies are wasted.

Today, in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia the need for an accurate picture of events on the ground is being met by the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). IRIN, which was born out of the 1994 crisis in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, pioneered the use of e-mail and web technology to deliver and receive information to and from some of the most remote and underdeveloped places in Africa, cheaply and efficiently. Its reporting focuses on strengthening universal access to timely, strategic and non-partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of the humanitarian community to understand, respond to and avert emergencies. IRIN further supports efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation by countering misinformation and propaganda.

Governments, aid workers, civil societies, disaster specialists, members of the public all receive and contribute to regular reports on a wide array of political, economic and social issues affecting humanitarian efforts. IRIN takes an increasingly broad view of what comprises 'humanitarianism' and seeks to cover the full range of humanitarian issues from the abuse of human rights to the environment. Moreover, local communities are a key component in the information exchange process, enriching IRIN reports with grassroots material and creating a platform for debate between humanitarian decision-makers and affected communities

EuropaWorld

Website: www.europaworld.org/

About us

EuropaWorld reports on development issues from a European perspective. The target audience is opinion, policy and decision makers , NGOs, Government Organisations, Educational Institutions, Media and Commercial Organisations and the general interested public in the English speaking world.

Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)

Website: www.fews.net

The Goal of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is to strengthen the abilities of African countries and regional organizations to manage risk of food insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical early warning and vulnerability information.

FEWS NET is a an activity that collaborates with international, national, and regional partners to provide timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability information on emerging or evolving food security issues.

FEWS NET professionals in the US and Africa monitor various data and information—including remotely sensed data and ground-based meteorological, crop and rangeland conditions—as early indications of potential threats to food security.

FEWS NET also focuses its efforts on strengthening African early warning and response networks. Activities to do this include capacity development, network building and strengthening, developing policy useful information, and forming consensus about food security problems and solutions.

Oneworld.Net

Website: www.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/10/3

OneWorld aims to be the online media gateway that most effectively informs a global audience about human rights and sustainable development

OneWorld aims to bring together a global community working for sustainable development through interactive online partnerships of organisations and individuals sharing our vision

OneWorld aims to transcend geographic and linguistic barriers in our work; in particular to give a voice to those typically overlooked by mainstream media and policy-makers