World View Information System (WVIS) for basic education NGOs in
COMBES, Bernard (mailto:b.combes@UNESCO.ORG)
Mon, 9 Mar 1998 09:07:22 +0100
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 09:07:22 +0100
From: "COMBES, Bernard" <mailto:b.combes@UNESCO.ORG>
Subject: World View Information System (WVIS) for basic education NGOs in
To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
> Dear colleagues,
> The following should be of interest to a number of you. Have a good
> weekend, Bernard Combes
>
> Presentation of World View Information System (WVIS)
> for basic education NGOs in Africa and South Asia
>
> A user-friendly information system for local non governmental
> organisations
> (NGOs) involved in basic education in Africa and South Asia has been
> developped by World View.
> World View's broad objectives are to reinforce evaluations and
> research
> among NGOs. Its founding members come from the market and opinion
> research
> industry. During the Annual Conference of European Society for Opinion
> and
> Market Research (ESOMAR) at Davos in September 1994, World View's
> constituting
> meeting focused on providing information systems to basic education
> NGOs to
> initially share existing research.
>
> The WVIS software is designed to be copied and/or mediated to local
> NGOs be they
> community, youth, women, religious, private organisations catering
> basic education to the poor. This software based on the ISIS sofware
> and runs on
> IBM PC compatibles is particularly designed for those not having
> access to educational
> innovations and contacts worldwide.
>
> A pilot version can be dispatched to gather end-user and/or mediator
> impressions, remarks and criticism to prepare a first version that
> will freely
> distributed if targeted to/used by local NGOs.
>
> For further information, please contact
>
> Alexandre Khan
> Executive Secretary
> World View Secretariat
> 5 Passage Piver, 75011 Paris France
> Tel/Fax: 33-1-0145791227
> email: mailto:ZKhan@compuserve.com
>
> or
>
> World View Back Office
> F2 Maharani Bagh, New Delhi 110065 India
> Tel: 91-11-6910573
> email: mailto:wvbo@del2.vsnl.net.in
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> Bernard Combes
> Information/Documentation Specialist & Coordinator - Africa Early
> Childhood Projects
> Early Childhood and Family Education Unit (ED/BAS/ECF)
> UNESCO
> 7 Place de Fontenoy
> 75352 Paris 07 SP, France
> tel: 33-1-45680686 fax: 33-1-45685626/27/28
> email: mailto:b.combes@unesco.org
> Internet: http://www.education.unesco.org/educprog/ecf/index.htm
> ________________________________________________________________