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Aid Workers Network
The Aid Workers Network is a UK-based nonprofit created in 2002 by a group of aid workers. According to the FAQ page on the site, over 12,000 aid workers are registered members of the community.
The site includes a news aggregator that pulls from aid workers' and aid organizations' blogs, including a great looking blog called, humanitarian.info. One of humanitarian.info's posts pointed me to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair's Virtual Humanitarian Information Centre for Lebanon. OCHA also has Virtual Humanitarian Centres for Pakistan, Niger, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Darfur and Liberia.
pingVision wrote up a short piece about their work on the Network that says that it is a "CivicSpace-powered site" that is "powered by Drupal's phpTemplate theme engine." They also designed the logo.
Image credit: Logo from Aid Workers Network site.
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Thanks for the link
Hi Britt -- Tom from Aid Workers Network here. Thanks for posting this note about us.
Our volunteers have spent quite a long time pulling the site together. Although we've made a few modifications to the logo and look, pingVision did a really lovely job with the overall theme and were great to work with. The site runs on CivicSpace 0.8.3 with CiviCRM and CiviMail for membership management and broadcast emails. It still needs a lot of work, and anyone CivicSpace savvy with a few hours *will* be mercilessly exploited, but we're really happy so far.
Tech aside, as a community of practice we hope to continue working with field workers (a group of great innovators) who are learning from each other. The aggregator is a way to widen our network, and help people better understand the rigours of the profession. We're always looking for blogs by relief and development workers to include in this list, so if you know of one, drop me a line.