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Source is everywhere Water news services irc.nl/source

Source is everywhere Water news services http://www.irc.nl/source. INCO, 12 October 2007 Caridad Machin Camacho.

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Source is everywhere Water news services irc.nl/source

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  1. Source is everywhereWater news serviceshttp://www.irc.nl/source INCO, 12 October 2007Caridad Machin Camacho

  2. I read the article “Water reuse: a technological low cost possibility for developing countries”, an experience from New Zealand. I made further research and we are applying the technology now in Colombia.”[Francisco Burbano, Basic Politics Officer, UNICEF, Colombia, (2006)]

  3. Source Bulletin Structure Product Inputs Team Source Weekly Structure Inputs  Team Content Background What (content) and target group Outputs Audience Impact  Latestdevelopment  Tract record

  4. BACKGROUND • Launched in 1998 • Co-funded by WSSCC • Replace IRC’s quarterly English and French newsletters and its bi-monthly current awareness bulletin Highlights

  5. What and target • Combination of sector news digests, original feature stories and corporate news from IRC and contributing partners • to more than 40,000 policy makers, sector professionals and information specialists.

  6. Source Bulletin Structure

  7. Source Product

  8. Source Bulletin Team I Contribute with two pages to SB I translate/ select news for BdN I am in charge of final desk -top publisher I edit SB I am Source Coordinator and editor I Contribute with two pages to SB Peter McIntyre I translate/edit SN & ES I am SB Editor and SW contributor I do the last quality check SB

  9. Source Weekly, Sources Nouvelles, Boletin de Noticias “Source Weekly has for years been my most convenient and reliable source of information about water and sanitation development at global and national levels” [Ingvar Andersson, Senior Water Advisor, SIDA (2006)]

  10. Source Weekly & new initiatives

  11. Facts & Figures – inputs2006

  12. Source Weekly Team I Edit SW I am a back up for SW Peter McIntyre I am Source Coordinator and editor I am SB Editor and SW contributor I help with the selection of news for SW I translate/edit SN & ES Rodrigo I translate/select news for BdN I help with the selection of news for SW

  13. Facts & Figures - outputs2007

  14. Audience/distribution/page views 2006

  15. Impact and indicators of success • Source has the widest outreach and frequency of all IRC publications. Examples of impact: • SW items regularly feature in other news services, including European Water Management News , World Water Council news, Right to Water, FAN E-Bulletin, PPP Newsletter and EMWIS Flash • A quote in SW in 2003 drew the attention of the South African Director-General and Minister for water • Articles from SW helped NGOs get funding

  16. Source latest developments Rethinking theproduction process is underway • Efficient new collection using new Web tools (tagging, RSS, pageminder, weblogs) • Flexible production process in eZ publish: • Easily add newsletter option to any website in portal • Reuters-like stream of news items • Newsfeeds (RSS) based on selected themes/regions (tags) • Subscribers can select from different formats: • plain text (small size) • HTML (better formatted, clearer separation ofsections, links from ToC to item, etc) • Visitor participation (feedback, contributions)

  17. Track record • Multilingual, multi-channel news service (web, e-mail, print): • English (in-house) • French (with CREPA) • Spanish (with CINARA) • Jicwels Japanese • Overall subscriptions ±15,000 • 75,000 – 90,000 readers • 552,439page views in 2006 • Good feedback (readers react section, web comments) • External contributions (e.g. field diary)

  18. SB in Asia,Africa and Europe

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