The NGO Forum

Reformist Reforms, Non-Reformist Reforms and Global Justice: Activist, NGO and Intellectual Challenges in the World Social Forum

Investigation of Organizational Interaction and Support in an NGO through Computer-Mediated Discussions

Discussion forums have been used to support organizational communication and they have become a candidate for study of organizational behaviors. However, online behaviors of NGOs have been insufficiently studied compared to those studies conducted in education and industries. Our empirical study examined how social workers in one NGO used an internal discussion forum to help them disseminate ti...

Automatic Approach for Comparison of Study Programmes

This paper presents an approach for comparing study programmes in automatic way by using two software tools: (i) the IKAS system allowing construction of concepts maps representing curricula and their transformation into ontologies and (ii) the WebSmatch tool allowing matching of the ontologies and providing visualization of comparison results. The results of our experiment on a real dataset of...

Beyond Beijing: putting words into action.

The Fourth World Conference on Women acknowledged that environmental degradation 1) disproportionately affects poor women who are powerless to control it, 2) is linked to poverty, and 3) jeopardizes women's reproductive health. Thus, the Platform for Action addresses environmental inequalities among its 12 areas of critical concern, and the governments who signed the consensus agreed to take a...

[Casa Siloé: the history of an NGO for children with HIV/AIDS].

Casa Siloé (Siloam House) is a Catholic support house that shelters children with human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The article presents a history of the institution and discusses its work. A qualitative approach was used, relying on oral history techniques and documental analysis. Eight key informants were interviewed: the president of the institution, two coo...