Source is everywhere Water news services http www

Source is everywhere Water news services http: //www. irc. nl/source INCO, 12 October 2007 Caridad Machin Camacho

I read the article “Water reuse: a technological low cost possibility for developing countries”, an experience from New Zealand. I made further research and we are applying the technology now in Colombia. ” [Francisco Burbano, Basic Politics Officer, UNICEF, Colombia, (2006)]

Content Background What (content) and target group Source Bulletin Source Weekly Structure Product Inputs Team Structure Inputs Team Outputs Audience Latest development Impact Tract record

BACKGROUND • Launched in 1998 • Co-funded by WSSCC • Replace IRC’s quarterly English and French newsletters and its bi-monthly current awareness bulletin Highlights

What and target • Combination of sector news digests, original feature stories and corporate news from IRC and contributing partners • to more than 40, 000 policy makers, sector professionals and information specialists.

Source Bulletin Structure Source Bulletin Paper Global project Quarterly (SB)English IRC Cap-Net GWA WSSCC (2008) IRC-Thematic 3 p. GWA- gender 2 p. Cap-Net-Cdev. 2 p IRC+partners 3 p+RE 2 p (2008 IRC/RE/less)&WSSCC 2 p Subscribers 5 000 (SNES)French IRC/CREPA Cap-Net GWA WSSCC (2008) Bde. A&S Spanish IRC/CINARA Cap-Net GWA WSSCC (2008) IRC- Thematic 2 p. GWA- gender 2 p. Cap-Net-Cdev. 2 p IRC 3 p + Crepa 2 p +1 RE (2008 IRC/less+WSSCC 2 p+ Crepa 1/protos 1) IRC- Thematic 2 p. GWA- gender 2 p. Cap-Net-Cdev. 2 p IRC 3 p + Cinara 2 p +1 RE (in 2008 IRC/less+WSSCC 2 p) CGIAB? 1100 Subscribers 1 000 subscribers

Source Product

Source Bulletin Team I Contribute with two pages to SB I am in charge of final desk top publisher I translate/ select news for Bd. N I am Source Coordinator and editor I edit SB Peter Mc. Intyre I Contribute with two pages to SB I translate/edit SN & ES I am SB Editor and SW contributor I do the last quality check SB

Source Weekly, Sources Nouvelles, Boletin de Noticias “Source Weekly has for years been my most convenient and reliable source of information about water and sanitation development at global and national levels” [Ingvar Andersson, Senior Water Advisor, SIDA (2006)]

Source Weekly & new initiatives

Facts & Figures – inputs 2006 Source Channel Days/yr SW Email Web 161 - SN Email Web 22 CREPA, H 2 O. net BN Email Web 22 CINARA SW/J Email 0 JICWELS SSA Email ? ? ? Total 205 Partner UNICEF ROSA

Source Weekly Team I Edit SW I am a back up for SW Peter Mc. Intyre I am Source Coordinator and editor I help with the selection of news for SW Rodrigo I translate/selec t news for Bd. N I help with the selection of news for SW I am SB Editor and SW contributor I translate/edit SN & ES

Facts & Figures outputs 2007 Paper Electronic issues subscribers English 4 5 000 22 3 950 French 4 1 110 11 1 450 Spanish 4 1 000 11 4 000 South Asia 8 550 Japanese n. a 7 110 9 950

Audience/distribution/ page views 2006 Source Readers (estimate) Page views Distribution (2005) SW (E) 12, 500 160, 000 All regions SN (F) 6, 000 122, 000 W-Africa, Europe, LA, N-America BN (S) 14, 500 264, 000 LA, Europe SW (J) 500 n. a. Japan 33, 500 546, 000 total

Impact and indicators of success • Source has the widest outreach and frequency of all IRC publications. Examples of impact: • SW items regularly feature in other news services, including European Water Management News , World Water Council news, Right to Water, FAN E-Bulletin, PPP Newsletter and EMWIS Flash • A quote in SW in 2003 drew the attention of the South African Director-General and Minister for water • Articles from SW helped NGOs get funding

Source latest developments Rethinking the production process is underway • Efficient new collection using new Web tools (tagging, RSS, pageminder, weblogs) • Flexible production process in e. Z publish: – – Easily add newsletter option to any website in portal Reuters-like stream of news items Newsfeeds (RSS) based on selected themes/regions (tags) Subscribers can select from different formats: • plain text (small size) • HTML (better formatted, clearer separation of sections, links from To. C to item, etc) • Visitor participation (feedback, contributions)

Track record • Multilingual, multi-channel news service (web, e-mail, print): – – English (in-house) French (with CREPA) Spanish (with CINARA) Jicwels Japanese • Overall subscriptions ± 15, 000 • 75, 000 – 90, 000 readers • 552, 439 page views in 2006 • Good feedback (readers react section, web comments) • External contributions (e. g. field diary)

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