Catégorie : Civil Society

Last modified 2006-06-02 – Welcome to http://openplans.org/, a free wiki-based community organizing and project management tool.

OpenPlans, a site dedicated to helping communities organize virtually to effect real world change, is currently running a beta testing version of the software here at www.openplans.org.  The site will continue to evolve as we roll out bug fixes, new features, and enhanced functionality.

OpenPlans is wiki-based. This means that most pages are editable by members of the site. Membership is free and it takes just seconds to register. Once you log in, you may start your own project or contribute to an existing one. We hope you use OpenPlans to share information, coordinate tasks, and build momentum around your project.

OpenPlans is the work of The Open Planning Project (TOPP), a New York City-based non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing citizen and public interest group participation in community planning processes through technology. TOPP imagines OpenPlans as a free, hosted, and shared suite of community organizing tools, and we look forward to providing you with an ever-increasing toolkit for getting things done.

We will soon be adding a user’s guide. In the meantime, logged in users can visit our Sandbox project to experiment with using the system.  Once in the sandbox, click the « edit » tab to change the text and layout of the page.  You can link to existing pages in the project by enclosing the page title in double parenthesis.  You can also create new pages this way; if you enclose text that does not match an existing page title in double parenthesis, this text will become an « add link », which will create the new page when followed.

Let us know what you think using our contact form; we love and need your feedback and suggestions for improvement.

The BDS Forum is a database and discussion forum on different BDS strategies. We do not support « the only one BDS approach » – monopoly but complementary business development strategies proved in practice like the moderate BDS approach including commercial BDS providers as well as NGOs, local city administrations, public providers and self-help organisations. Your contributions are welcome!

BDS Media:

• BDS Internet Portals
• BDS email based Newsletter
• Business Information Handbooks
• BDS Reader
• BDS Library (download)

Strategies and Trainings:

• BDS Toolkit
• BDS Trainings
• BDS Success Stories
• BDS Lessons learnt
• Capacity Building and Networking
• Monitoring and Evaluation

Business Information Services:

• Start your Business
• Business Registration
• Business Planning
• Bookkeeping and Cost Calculation
• Marketing Strategies
• Import-Export and Trade Fairs
• BDS with Business Associations
• Taxation
• Supply Markets
• Laws and Regulations
• Standards and Quality

Business Development Services (BDS) comprise a wide range of non-financial services provided by private suppliers (BDS providers) to entrepreneurs who use them to efficiently operate and make their businesses grow. The types of services in a functioning BDS system are determined by the demand articulated on the part of the businesses.

New for download!

How to develop sustainable BDS without Radicalism?

Library

To find Consulting Firms active in development cooperation, go to the coresponding directory on weitzenegger.de:

List of Companies in Industrialized Countries not Members of the EU;

List of Companies with Headquarters in the European Union;

African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states signatories of the Cotonou Agreement;

etc., see the rest on this weitzenegger index.

One exemple of a consulting firm: The Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development (CSEND) is an independent, project-financed, non-profit foundation, registered with the Geneva Chamber of Commerce (Switzerland). Specialising in organisational reform and institutional development worldwide, CSEND works to strengthen public administrations and public-sector enterprises through the use of an inter-disciplinary and socio-economic approach. Mandated primarily by governments and international organisations, CSEND designs and implements comprehensive institution development and capacity-building projects leading to the adoption of best managerial practices in the public sector. (See all on CSEND ff).

Linked with Vera Vohlidalova – Czech Republic.

Das Portal des Deutsch-Tschechischen Forums der Frauen versteht sich als Anlaufstelle für alle, die sich für Tschechien und das deutsch-tschechische Verhältnis interessieren. Zwei zentrale Ideen prägen diesen Ort:

Informationsbündelung – Dieses Internetportal will ein Ort sein, wo man die wichtigsten Informationen zum jeweiligen Nachbarland und zur deutsch-tschechischen Zusammenarbeit gebündelt findet. Es will helfen, sich im Dschungel der unzähligen Initiativen und Informationen zurecht zu finden.

Mitwirkung – Damit dies ein wirklich spannender und informativer Ort wird, sind Sie herzlich zur Mitarbeit eingeladen: Wir verstehen uns als offene und neutrale Plattform für alle, die sich im deutsch-tschechischen Bereich engagieren. Auf Ihrer Mitwirkung, Ihr Engagement und Ihre Informationen kommt es an. Sie sind herzlich zur Mitarbeit eingeladen!

Frauen im Versöhnungsprozess;

Linked with Vera Vohlidalova – Czech, and with Deutsch-Tschechisches Forum der Frauen.

Bibliothek-Library in Liberec, Building of Peace and Reconciliation, under the patronage of the presidents of Czech Republic and Germany.

This project links the library and the synagogue of Liberec in perfect harmony and will give each its own building for the first time in more than 50 years. It is both the first public library with a collection of this size and breadth to be built in the country in 70 years and the first new synagogue to be built in the Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia) since World War Two. This new building project will present a library as an institution which not only takes care of various documents but also provides information of all kinds including among other things access to both historical and current information on many cultures, lands and peoples.

This new House of Prayer is to be not only a place of meeting for the Jews of the region but also both a symbol of human understanding and an act of symbolic compensation. The Library and House of Prayer will serve as a reminder that people of various beliefs, colour and cultures have lived, do and will always live in and among us. Thanks to moral and financial support from many sides it is a symbol of joining and of shaking hands over mutually lived history to a shared future.

Universal services – available to everyone. The library serves especially:

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