TOP Electronic networks

Discussionlist on Social Marketing

Alan Andreasen, the Social Marketing Institute US (since 1999). E-mail: andreasa@georgetown.edu
Andreasen is running an e-mail-based discussion list on social marketing. It is US dominated, but interesting.

The Drumbeat listserver

Warren Feek from Communication Initiative US. E-mail: feek@comminit.com
Feek is running an e-mail -based list server The Drum Beat (see also under Websites).

Freshwater action network

Danielle Morley, (info@freshwateraction.net), co-ordinates the Freshwater Action Network, http://www.freshwateraction.net/

This site aims to improve and support the participation of NGOs and CBOs in policy making and advocacy work around freshwater issues at major international fora. It was centrally involved in supporting and co-ordinating NGO input into the International Conference on Freshwater in Bonn, December 2001. It also focused its work on the World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 and the 3rd World Water Fprum in Japan in 2003, assisting NGOs active on freshwater issues to lobby for sanitation and water during the preparatory committee meetings.

In the long term the network can act as a forum for coordinated NGO campaigns on water and target other institutions or issues at different levels. It will also continue to help build NGO capacity for international advocacy work and campaigning.

Water advocacy Yahoo group

Dick de Jong from IRC. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wateradvocacy/
De Jong has since early 2001 moderated an informal water Advocacy Yahoo group with 38 members who exchange advocacy news and resources.