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Information Development, Vol. 24, No. 2, 151-155 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0266666908091129

Knowledge Sharing through Collaboration in Development Studies: the Focuss.Info Initiative

Richard Lalleman

London Metropolitan University; c/o M.G. Wesseling, Institute of Social Studies, (ISS), P.O. Box 29776; 2502 LT The Hague; Netherlands, Richard.focuss{at}gmail.com

Michel Wesseling

Institute of Social Studies, (ISS), P.O. Box 29776; 2502 LT The Hague; Netherlands, wesseling{at}iss.nl

This paper introduces a new research tool within the international field of development cooperation and studies: the Focuss.Info initiative. Focuss.Info facilitates a content specific search engine. This search engine indexes the favourite websites of partners in the initiative and individual contributors who are tagging their websites on a social bookmark platform. In this way, the field of global studies facilitates a valuable research tool in which institutions from all over the world collaborate and share their `knowledge of websites' with each other.

Key Words: Focuss.Info • knowledge sharing • social bookmarking • tagging • Google • development research • cooperation.


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