IK Monitor Websites (7-2)

Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, July 1999

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Websites

Starting with the current issue, the Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor has a new feature: 'Websites'. Here we will recommend websites that deal with the subjects treated in the same issue. For each of the articles, CIRAN's information specialists have searched the Internet for relevant, useful pages. Sometimes the sites offer background information; other times the information is supplementary.
But first of all we want to draw your attention to the websites of the IK resource centres.

IK Resource Centres online
The addresses and contact persons of all the IK resource centres can be found at http://www.nuffic.nl/ik-pages/addresses.html. Any changes reported to us are made to the list within two weeks, so the information is always up-to-date.

Three IK resource centres now have their own websites:
- CARIKS: Centre for Advanced Research on Indigenous Knowledge Systems
http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/ccrss/cariks.htm
The website gives basic information about the centre but offers no further links. It is a guest site of the Centre for Cooperative Research in Social Sciences, hosted by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, the Netherlands.
- ICIK -Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge
http://www.ed.psu.edu/ci/ICIK/index.html
An institution, established in June 1995, through which faculty, staff and students from any institution of higher education in Pennsylvania, as well as interested citizens can engage in interdisciplinary study of knowledge systems that are operative in local communities in Pennsylvania, the United States and other countries.
- INRIK -Indonesian Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge
http://www.melsa.net.id/~inrik/
INRIK is based at Padjadjaran University.

Tuberculosis
- 'tb.net: the global TB network' is a resource centre for information about tuberculosis--about the disease itself, but also about training programmes, conferences, computer software, organizations, and databases. It is a network of NGOs involved in TB control. Most of the tb.net partners are from countries in South Asia, but there are also partners from other parts of Asia and from Africa, Europe and America. Their aim is to foster communication among the individuals and organizations around the world who are working to control TB. http://www.south-asia.com/ngo-tb/
- SHARED: Scientists for Health And Research for Development. SHARED is a rather new meeting place on the Net. It is fed with information about ongoing research and development projects in the field of health. The projects are sponsored by the European Commission, and various organizations in Europe and the developing world. Visitors to the site can do a full text search of the project descriptions by clicking on 'Project Information Server'. Typing in 'tuberculosis' gave 40 hits. Many of the sites were directed towards medical specialists, but enough interesting projects were listed to make the effort worthwhile. http://www.shared.de/sharedhome.html
- The homepage of the Tuberculosis Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) offers news, reports, a mailing list, and newsletters on tuberculosis. The site makes no specific references to indigenous knowledge, but it is still worthwhile for anyone interested in the subject. http://www.who.int/gtb/index.htm

Forest management
- Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network. This website is a joint effort of the Department of Rural Development Studies (DRDS) at the Sweden University of Agricultural Studies (SLU), and the Community Forestry Unit of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). http://www-trees.slu.se/
- Forestry Information Notes. This site offers summaries of FAO's work in specific areas of forestry. Many of them deal with community forestry. http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/forestry/infonote/default.htm
- IPGRI Library and Information Services: Selected articles from recent literature. This useful site offers a search engine. For example, a search on 'forestry' yielded three pages of references to literature published since 1998, mainly journal articles.
http://www.cgiar.org/ipgri/library/
- Indigenous knowledge of the rainforest: perception, extraction and conservation. This is an article by Roy Ellen. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/malon.html

Do you have e-mail but not World Wide Web access?

Bellanet offers a way of accessing some of the information on the World Wide Web using e-mail alone. Bellanet is an international initiative housed at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. Their mission is to foster inter-agency collaboration through more effective use of information and communication technologies. Web-to-Email servers are computers which fetch documents from the Web, and send them to the user as e-mail messages, either in plain text or html. To use the system, simply send an email message addressed to one of the Web-to-Email servers listed below. Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the e-mail message, type the URL (a Web address beginning with http://) of the Web page you want to read. In the following example, the message is addressed to www4mail@web.bellanet.org, a Web-to-Email server operated by Bellanet.
Readers who do have access to the Web but would like more information about this facility anyway, can visit Bellanet's website at http://www.bellanet.org/email.htm.

If you have any suggestions for the new 'Websites' feature, please contact:
Ingeborg Krukkert, Information specialist, Nuffic-CIRAN, P.O. Box 29777, 2502 LT The Hague, the Netherlands.
Tel.: +31-70-4260 323.
Fax: +31-70-4260 329.
E-mail: ciran@nuffic.nl