About Online Communities

The online communities available in this website originate from Dgroups and are provided in a topic specific way so that users can easily find relevant communities to participate in.

Dgroups is an online home for groups and communities interested in international development. It has been developed through a partnership between Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and WorldBank. The system is currently hosted by Bellanet on behalf of the partnership, but the Dgroups brand belongs to all partners equally.

Dgroups provides online tools and services needed to support the activities of a team, a group, a network, a partnership or a community. The online environment is unique in that it is simple, non-commercial, respectful of privacy, and targeted at low bandwidth users in the South.

There are an ever increasing number of development organisations that want to have online groups or communities. Instead of creating separate solutions, the Dgroups partnership aims to support a platform not just for each other, but for the entire development community.

The partners see support for Dgroups as a way to provide such a platform, while at the same time to provide a valuable service to their respective stakeholders and networks, and an easy way for individuals to find the groups and communities of interest to them.

See www.dgroups.org.