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Source is everywhere Water news servicesWater news services
http://www.irc.nl/sourcehttp://www.irc.nl/source
INCO, 12 October 2007Caridad 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
Source Bulletin Structure
Product
Inputs
Team
Source Weekly Structure
Inputs
Team
Background What (content) and target group
Outputs Audience Impact
Latest development 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 BulletinPaper
Global projectQuarterly
(SB)EnglishIRC
Cap-NetGWA
WSSCC (2008)
(SNES)FrenchIRC/CREPA
Cap-NetGWA
WSSCC (2008)
BdeA&S SpanishIRC/CINARA
Cap-NetGWA
WSSCC (2008)
IRC- Thematic 2p.GWA- gender 2 p.Cap-Net-Cdev. 2pIRC 3p + Crepa 2p +1RE(2008IRC/less+WSSCC2p+Crepa1/protos1)
IRC-Thematic 3 p.GWA- gender 2 p.Cap-Net-Cdev. 2pIRC+partners 3p+RE 2p(2008IRC/RE/less)&WSSCC2p
IRC- Thematic 2p.GWA- gender 2 p.Cap-Net-Cdev. 2pIRC 3p + Cinara 2p +1RE (in 2008IRC/less+WSSCC2p)CGIAB?
Subscribers5 000
1100Subscribers
1 000 subscribers
Source Product
Source Bulletin Team
I am in charge of final desk -top publisher
I translate/ select news
for BdN
I am Source Coordinator and editor
I translate/edit SN & ES
Peter McIntyre
I edit SB
I do the last quality check SB
I am SB Editor and SW
contributor
I Contribute with two
pages to SB
I Contribute with two
pages to 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 – inputs2006
Source Channel Days/yr PartnerSW Email
Web161 -
SN EmailWeb
22 CREPA,H2O.net
BN EmailWeb
22 CINARA
SW/J Email 0 JICWELS
SSA Email ??? UNICEF ROSA
Total 205
Source Weekly TeamI Edit SW
I translate/select news for BdN
I am a back up for SW
Rodrigo
I am Source Coordinator and editor
I translate/edit SN & ES
I help with the selection of news for
SW
I help with the
selection of news for
SW
Peter McIntyre
I am SB Editor and SW
contributor
Facts & Figures - outputs
2007Paper Electronic
issues subscribers 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. n.a
7 110 9 950
Audience/distribution/page views 2006
Source Readers (estimate)
Page views (2005)
Distribution
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
total 33,500 546,000
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 eZ 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 ToC 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)
SB in Asia,Africa and Europe
INDIA
KENYA
TANZANIA, UNITED REP
ETHIOPIANIGERIA
THE NETHERLANDS
BURKINA FASO
NEPAL
GHANA
ZAMBIA
INDONESIA
UGANDA
UNITED STATES
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