This guide includes:
* an introduction
* 2 examples: the pages of the Water workshop and the Health college
* Specifications for the creation of an "Electronic Forum" heading in the web pages of the workshop / college

Guide no. 3:

The Web pages

    the cartography 
    the experience files
  the Web pages
    the electronic forums 
    the proposals booklets
    the breakthroughs
    the bibliographical files

Brief practical guides for the Alliance 

Guide no. 3:
The Web pages 

This guide is  meant for the coordination teams of the workshops and socioprofessional networks of the Alliance to help them designing  and developing their web pages.

Objectives:
The Alliance is a decentralized movement linking very diverse groups that work with the long-term in mind. To combine the special characteristics of each group and ensure overall coherence, it is essential that the activities of all and their place in the Alliance are well documented and clearly visible for both the allies and others interested in the Alliance's activities. This information is especially necessary in 2000-2001 during which the initiatives started years ago are now bearing fruit. 

Therefore the Alliance Website must:
•	Show the full wealth of the Alliance's reflections and activities. The aim is to highlight the works of the topical, socioprofessional and geocultural workshops, present multidisciplinary aspects (history, methodology, communication) and give a clear presentation of the movement's whole structure and coherence. 
•	Highlight the links between the challenges, groups and elements of reflection, by permitting navigation through a vast amount of structured information and by providing tools for information collection and organization (databases, maps). 
•	Combine the autonomy and coherence of the whole in the production and display of information. Supply to the site is already decentralized at coordination team level: each coordination team compiles and organizes the information it wants to display on its workshop / college pages, conforming to the structure of the headings and sub-headings defined for the whole site. These materials are then put on-line by the Website team (coordination and programmers / designers). 
At the beginning of 2002, onlining will also be decentralized thanks to the use of databases that will be supplied directly by the coordination teams, so that they can update their workshop / college pages automatically. These databases will generate the structure and display of information on 1) the general elements of the workshop (working subjects, coordination team, etc.); 2) the participants; 3) the events; 4) the documents and 5) the experience files. 

What to do?

To present a workshop / college on the Alliance site 
•	A new presentation of workshops and colleges has been adopted to unify and structure the information on the site. To present your workshop / college, you must both compile the information needed for display on the Web and "format" this information so that it corresponds to the different headings of the workshop / college pages. 
•	We recommend doing this in two steps: gather the information vital for a minimum display, then add more information to enhance and update the presentation of the workshop / college. Remember that this second step is just as important: certain elements that can only be gathered in the second step are indispensable for clear understanding of the workshop's / college's activities (i.e. the proposals booklets).
•	The information compiled and formatted in this way is sent to the Website coordination team <web@echo.org> that checks the information's structure. Some exchanges may be necessary to adjust the presentation. The Website coordination team  will then inform you about when these elements will be onlined. 
•	When transmitting your files to the Website coordination team, make sure you always send them in .rtf format. Furthermore, make sure to give explicit names to your files. We propose: nameofworkshopinenglish_typeofdocument_languageofdocument.rtf 
For example: forest_calendar_eng.rtf
•	The Alliance site is trilingual (English, French, Spanish). Whenever possible, make quick translations of your information into at least one other working language (especially if you have an electronic forum in 2 or 3 languages).

Vital elements for a basic display:

1.	Name of workshop / college in three languages (English, French, Spanish). If it is a topical workshop, indicate the path it belongs to.
2.	Presentation of the problem in one line 
3.	Presentation of the problem on one screen (350 words or 2,000 characters): the questions dealt with, the approaches adopted, context and perspectives; structure in chapters. 
4.	Calendar of the collective work, especially the calendar of meetings and other events in the past, present and future.
5.	Address (postal address, fax and e-mail) of the coordination team (international coordinators and regional coordinators when they exist).
6.	Basic documents: these can be notes on the problem, meeting reports, articles, etc. referring to the different chapters of the issue. We recommend supplying a bibliographical file with these documents (see Guide no. 7 on the bibliographical files (5)), providing a half page summary with key words. The document can be downloaded, and the summary visible on screen.
7.	Photos of the coordinators, groups and meetings.

Elements required for updating the Web page:

8.	Ideas for a workshop or college logo
9.	The links between the subjects dealt with and the rest of the Alliance. A  mapping method permits structuring and visualizing the links between the reflection carried out by a group and the Alliance's other major topics. Software has been developed to input these maps and link them together with hypertexts. This software is incorporated in the Alliance Website and will refer users to different sources (experience files, bibliographic files, Web pages, proposals) illustrating the relationships given on the map and to which access is possible via very easy navigation. Refer to Guide no. 1 on the cartography (2).
10.	The workshops, colleges and associated geocultural groups with which you work and / or which deal with associated topics.
11.	The links with web sites dealing with similar topics, with a line presenting each site. 
12.	The experience files with keywords, grouped according to the different chapters of the problem. An initial selection has been made for each workshop / college. It features under the heading "experience files" of the corresponding workshop or college pages. Furthermore all the files can be accessed in the site's Documents section. You can also write new ones that will be imported into this database and they will appear automatically on your workshop / college Web pages. Regarding this, refer to Guide No.2 on the experience files (3).
13.	The proposals booklets, introduced by a two page text representing the major breakthroughs. In the case of the colleges, the Charter or the college's code of conduct.
14.	 The electronic forum.
You can create an ad hoc "forum heading" to refer allies to documents archived on the Web and to integrate the forum better in your workshop's web pages. For more information, refer to Specifications for creating an "electronic forum" heading in the Web pages of the workshop / college (1). For general information about the opening and moderation of Alliance e-forumss, please consult the Guide no. 4 on the Electronic Forums.

Who to contact for assistance:

For all questions or for sending information, write to the Website coordination team (Denis Pansu and Pierre Johnson) at: <web@echo.org>

Available resources:

•	 (1) Specifications for creating an electronic forum heading on the workshop / college web pages 

You may also consult the following related guides:
•	(2) Guide no. 1 on the cartography
•	(3) Guide no. 2 on the experience files
•	(4) Guide no. 4 on the electronic forums
•	(5) Guide no. 7 on the bibliographic files 

To obtain these guides, contact: Véronique Rioufol <vrioufol@echo.org>

2 examples: the pages of the Water workshop and the Health socioprofessional netowrk. 

Example 1: Water Workshop

The Water Campaign	

The Water Campaign aims at creating an international dynamics on
Water, common good of humankind and the Biosphere.	

Thematic Workshops -> Water	

  
Activities
Facilitation Team
e-Forum
Agenda
Documents
Proposals
Experience Files
Links 	
	
The Water Campaign intends to develop a collective work, with interlocutors of different regions of the world involved directly in water issues, and to build a reflection on these problems carried by a world network of economic and political actors able to define and to make viable public policies for the control of this essential resource for life on Earth. 
The Platform for a Responsible and United World identifies water as one of the main "concrete, urgent, global" challenge.
It is therefore necessary to mobilize the actors, to identify the experiences and the problems supporting a social control of water management, in the philosophical framework of the concept of sustainable development.	

Activities	

Workshop Presentation

The Water Campaign has a simple but essential objective: secure the access of the whole Humanity to water. Behind this objective are different challenges and questions. Like the following:
•	Water for all: How? What mediations? What international authorities? 
•	Does water have a price? 
•	How can we stop or reduce the waste of water? 
•	How can we build alliances and partnerships to improve the management and protection of water? 
•	How can we save water for the future generations? 
•	How can science serve the needs of humanity for water 
Download the presentation  	

Activities	
 	
The Water Campaign proposes to:
•	Multiply case studies and adopt a field approach 
•	Privilege the regional scale and the "watershed" dimension to overcome the administrative and political divisions and encourage participation from communities. 
It now is striving to:
•	Produce case studies and regional reports 
•	Encourage interexchange and capitalizing of experiences 
•	Produce evaluations of the Agenda 21 
•	Propose the création of an International Water Court to promote the right of everybody to have access to water. 
•	Contemplate the expression/writing of an International Water Convenant which privileges the Watershed dimension. 
If you would like to participate or to know more about the activity of the working group, please contact the animator closest to your region. 	

Facilitation Team 	

Workshop Facilitation

Primary Contact: Larbi Bouguerra
Phone and Fax: 33 1 40 21 88 62
Post address: Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation
38, rue Saint-Sabin 75011 París
France
Email: larbi@fph.fr
Asia: Chan Ngai Weng, (Penang, Malaysia)
Phone: +60 4 860333
Fax: +60 4 6563707
Email: nwchan@usm.my
Africa: Abou Thiam, (Dakar, Senegal)
Phone: +221 824 23 02
Fax: +221 824 37 14
Email: panafric@sonatel.senet.net
Arab World: Mehdi Lahlou, (Rabat, Marocco)
Phone: +212 7 71 29 59
Fax: +212 7 77 94 57
Email: melahlou@insea.ac.ma
Prof. Wang Yi, China
Phone: +86 10 6256- 1872
Fax: +86 10 6256- 2775
Email: wangyi@mail.rcees.ac.cn	

e-Forum	

 	
 	
An electronic forum (e-forum) has been set up for debate.
The working languages of this forum are English and French.
All the messages (presentations and contributions) are available through links on the forum site (see link below).
Discussion Paper:
Water: Somewhere between tradition and modernity  
E-Forum address: a-water@funredes.org

e-Forum Facilitation	
 	
Lydia Nicollet
Phone: +33 4 93 95 01 87
Email: lydia.forums@echo.org	

Agenda	

e-Forum Agenda	
 	
•	March to end of May 2001: Discussions around the proposals and the existing or to be written illustrations for each proposition.
•	June 2001: rewriting of the Proposals Booklet according to the debates and writing of illustration files by those who have experiences to share. Preparation of a meeting planned for the end of June.
•	End of June 2001: meeting with the most active participants of the forum to work on the writing of illustration files (writing workshop).
•	July-August 2001: last work on the writing of the Proposals Booklet and illustration files.
•	September-October 2001: translation in several languages for the December 2001 World Assembly of the Alliance.	

Meetings organized by 
the Water Campaign	
 	
•	June 9-12, 2001, Cochabamba (Bolivia): Latin American meeting of the Water workshop [Report]
•	October 2000, Alexandrie (Egypte): Water in Africa 
•	April 1999, Teheran (Iran): Water and Health (organized with the cooperation of the Public Health Institute of Teheran).
•	January 1997, Penang (Malaysia): Water management in Asia
•	March 1996, Casablanca (Morocco) : Water in the Arab World and in Africa South of the Sahara

Documents	

Water and Governance	
 	
Larbi Bouguerra: La gouvernance et la question de l'eau (juin 2000) 
Meeting Water Challenges in the 21st Century. Conference Conclusions.
19/23 January 1997, Penang (Malaysia). 
See available documents list in French.	

Caravan #6 (August 2000)	
 	
Seven recommendations for good water management
When water is no longer a source of life...
The present water famine in India is largely a man made tragedy

Proposals	
 	
Proposal Files  
Seven recommendations for good water management	

Experience Files 	

Experience Files Dossier
Experience Files Database	

 	

Links	

Links to Web sites	
 	
•	General information on water and environment 
[links page compiled by International Congress on Water, also available in Spanish and French]
•	International Congress on Water 
[held at Kaslik University (Lebanon) from June 18-20, 1998, also available in Spanish and French]
•	Univers Immedia Knowledge Base 
[French w/ English Links]	

Related Workgroups	
 	
•	Environmental Education
•	The Soil Campaign	

	

	

Example 2: Health Socioprofessionnal network

Health Workers	

Integrating different perspectives, experiences, and proposals on health at the start of the twenty-first century.	

colleges -> health	

  
Facilitation Team
e-Forum
Agenda
Documents
Proposals
Experience Files
Links	
	
Statistics show without doubt the dramatic situation of world health, despite the right to health being proclaimed at international level. It has to be acknowledged that all the factors involved in increasing health standards are far from being clear, and that there is therefore no magic "what to do" formula. We still have a lot to learn on how to develop efficient health action. According to different studies, the critical issue could lie in the quality of the social and physical microenvironment.
Efforts to improve the population's health have been mainly channeled into welfare systems, responding to the belief that public health services are the main determining factor in health. Although the availability of health systems-or lack thereof-may be decisive in individual cases, it cannot explain all the health differences among populations.
An effective health policy needs to take into account the relative importance of various health determinants. In this area, what is important now is to reorient and refocus the social debate. This is an invitation to an international debate among professionals active in different disciplines and health professionals of all specialties from different countries with dissimilar socioeconomic realities, with a view to integrate different perspectives, experiences, and proposals on health at the start of the twenty-first century.
Workshop Presentation	

Facilitation Team	

Workshop Facilitation	
 	
Juan Vielmas
Santiago de Chile
Email: jvielmas@terra.cl	

e-Forum	
An electronic forum (e-forum) has been set up for debate. All the messages (presentations and contributions) are available through links on this site.	

E-Forum address	
 	
salud@forums.alliance21.org	

Agenda	

e-Forum Agenda	
 	
Forum is from March 20th to August 30th, 2001
Between October 10 to 30, the forum will be open with more specific topics, according to the results of the previous forum.

Meetings	
 	
Meeting in Havana (Cuba) in the first week of October 2001	

Documents	

Proposals	
 	
The Challenges of Health in the XXIst Century, launching text for the Health Workers College (January 2001) 
Desafíos de la Salud en el siglo XXI, texto de lanzamiento (noviembre 2000, in Spanish) 	

Experience Files	
 	
Experience Files Database	

Links	

Links to Web sites	
 	
•	World Health Organization (WHO)	

	

Specifications for creating an electronic forum heading in the workshop/college Web pages

All electronic forums can benefit from being combined with a "Web interface", i.e. a number of Web pages gathering information related to the forum. The following can be displayed on these Web pages: messages sent to the forum, general information on the forum (objectives, participants, working schedule, etc.), documents useful for the discussions in progress, practical advice, etc.

There are 2 types of Web interface for the Alliance forum:
* a basic interface is supplied by the Sympa software that manages the Alliance electronic forums. 
* a more complete and user-friendly interface can be developed by creating a "forum" heading in the workshop / college pages on the Alliance site.  
This presentation concerns the latter. 
Examine the difference between these 2 interfaces with the example of the Water Workshop presented hereafter.

Note: for general information about the opening and functionning of Alliance electronic forums, please consult the Guide no. 4 on the electronic forums. 

Start a forum before creating the forum heading on the workshop / college pages 

Starting your forum quickly before the information is published on your workshop / college pages is possible, since you can use the Sympa software to access a presentation page and the message archives. In this case you must transmit all your working documents directly (especially the text on the problem) as an attached file to the people you hope will subscribe.

Structure of the "Forum" heading of the workshop / college pages 

The Forum heading has 2 parts: "Forum" and "Resources" (cf. example of the Water workshop attached). It has been designed for rapid information display. 

1- Forum
* Subscription: display of a subscription form sent automatically to the coordinator of the electronic forum.
* Messages: archiving of messages sent to the forum, ordered chronologically. 
* Syntheses: messages summarizing forum debates are archived separately to make them stand out.
* Calendar: the forum's duration and working steps.

2- Resources
* Document(s) for debate: basic document(s) for the debates on the forum. 
* Library: all the other reference documents (texts, experience files, etc.) likely to fuel the debates or to which reference can be made in messages. 

Onlining

1 – The forum coordinator or moderator sends a message to the Website coordination team at <web@echo.org> including the following information and documents (to be supplied in the forum's working languages):
•	e-mail address of the forum where the messages are to be sent. For those forums created on the Alliance server, this is: nameofforum@forums.alliance21.org
•	the name of the moderator and his/her e-mail address.
•	the forum's working languages (English/Spanish/French)
•	the forum's calendar.
•	a text presenting the forum, in one or two paragraphs. For the forums created on the Alliance server, simply refer this text to the presentation already published at: http://www.alliance21.org/forums/info/nameofforum
•	the address of the Web page where the messages are archived. For the forums created on the Alliance server, this is: http://www.alliance21.org/forums/arc/nameofforum
•	the document(s) launching the forum in RTF format (in the chosen working languages).
•	possibly the 3 messages of advice (general working rules, layout and coding of the messages, writing tips in view of machine translation).

2 – The Website coordination team checks that all the information has been sent and correctly formatted, then it validates it and announces the onlining date. 

4 – Onlining of the "forum" sub-heading on the workshop / college Web pages.

5 – If, at a later date, you have additional documents you want to integrate in the "Library" part of the forum (optional), use the same procedure. Also indicate the date of the syntheses so that they standout in the "Syntheses section".

Format and name of the files sent

Given the large number of files sent to us, please name your files precisely in order to avoid confusion.
- In the title of the e-mail, mention "Interface web forum Name of workshop / college "
- All your files must have been saved in RTF format.
- The texts sent must include the accents (whereas the forum messages and the summaries are usually without accents).
- The file name must be in lower case letters.
- Specify the type of document in the file name: "synth" for synthesis, "debate" for the document for debate, "biblio" for other documents useful for the forum.
- Composition of file name: forumname of workshop in English_type of document_language.rtf
e.g., for Forests (file in English version): forumforest_synth_en.rtf

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Présentation et objectifs du forum Water
Ce forum électronique représente une plate-forme pour la mise en débat de la première version du cahier de proposition intitule " Projet de propositions relatives a la question de l'eau ", rédigé par Larbi Bouguerra, animateur du chantier Eau de l'Alliance pour un monde responsable, pluriel et solidaire.
L'objectif est d'arriver à une version finale d'un texte collectif à la fin du mois de septembre 2001, afin de pouvoir l'utiliser largement, à la fois lors de l'assemblée 2001 de l'Alliance pour un monde responsable et solidaire et pour une diffusion plus large au sein de rencontres et réseaux internationaux.
Dans cette perspective, le forum permet d'échanger des avis critiques tant sur le fond que sur la forme du document, d'enrichir collectivement la liste des priorités, des stratégies pour faire aboutir nos propositions et des exemples illustratifs de succès ou d'échec dans le cadre de la mise en place d'une gestion équitable ou d'une réflexion avancée sur la problématique eau dans le monde.
Si vous voulez visiter le site web du chantier de l'Alliance sur l'Eau, il vous suffit d'aller sur : http://www.alliance21.org/fr/themes/water.htm 
ENGLISH
Presentation and objectives of the Water forum
This e-forum represents a platform for debating on the first version of the Proposals paper titled "Outlines of proposals on water-related issues", written by Larbi Bouguerra, coordinator of the Water workshop of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World.
The objective is to have a final version of a collective text at the end of September 2001, in order to be able to use it largely, for both the Assembly 2001 of the Alliance and a larger diffusion among international meetings and networks.
In this perspective, the forum allows to exchange critical opinions in terms of both form and content, to enrich collectively the list of priorities and implementation strategies for our proposals, and lastly to enrich and multiply the illustrative examples of successes and failures with regard to projects aiming at setting up equitable management or high-level analysis of water supply issues all over the world.
If you want to visit the web site of the Alliance on Water, just go to: http://www.alliance21.org/en/themes/water.htm 	

	

Water Forum: user-friendly interface on the Alliance Website

	
Water Campaign	

e-Forum	

themes -> water -> e-forum	

ARCHIVES
Messages Before May 1st, 2001
Messages After May 1st, 2001	

This e-forum represents a platform for debating on the first version of the Proposals paper titled "Outlines of proposals on water-related issues", written by Larbi Bouguerra, coordinator of the Water workshop of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World.
The objective is to have a final version of a collective text at the end of September 2001, in order to be able to use it largely, for both the Assembly 2001 of the Alliance and a larger diffusion among international meetings and networks.	
 	
In this perspective, the forum allows to exchange critical opinions in terms of both form and content, to enrich collectively the list of priorities and implementation strategies for our proposals, and lastly to enrich and multiply the illustrative examples of successes and failures with regard to projects aiming at setting up equitable management or high-level analysis of water supply issues all over the world.
Download the discussion paper.