Online tools and software for dissemination

Nick Scott and Jeff Knezovich, ODI Wednesday Workshop21 November 2007

Agenda

1. Gapminder – visualisation of statistics2. Copyright – ‘Creative Commons’3. Presentations

– Material for use in presentations: images, maps

– Distributing presentations online

4. Blogs – ODI blog5. Wikis – Wikipedia

Gapminder – visualisation of statistics

One more online toolfor research

• http://www.gapminder.org • Powered by UN Division

of Statistics numbers• Powerful online

visualisation tool for statistics in a time series

• Currently can only be used with available UN stats

Copyright – ‘Creative Commons’

• What is a creative commons license?– CC is a “some rights

reserved” copyright– It helps you choose

what rights you’d like to reserve

Video from: http://revver.com/watch/108636/flv/creative-commons-wanna-work-together-remix/

Copyright – ‘Creative Commons’

• Attribution. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.

• Noncommercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.

• No Derivative Works. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

• Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

• Maps– http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:

Maps

• Images– http://www.flickr.com

• Rember to check the license T&Cs for any resources you use.

Presentations - Materials for use in presentations

Presentations - Materials for use in presentations

• Example– Slide on potential

effects of biofuels discusses the corn protests in Mexico.

Protesters marching against high corn prices, Mexico,

2007Source: flickr/PHOTOLARTE

Source is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LocationMexico.png

Presentations - Distributing

presentations online

• Once you have completed a presentation, it’s easily shared with others through Slideshare:– http://www.slideshare.net

• Can even ‘slidecast’ a presentation by adding sound and syncing slides

Presentations - Distributing presentations

online

• A recent example of a SlideShare slidecast from RAPID:– http://www.slideshare.

net/ODI_Webmaster/lines-of-argument-presentation-at-insights-to-impact-meeting

Blogs – ODI blogs

• ODI Blog– ‘commentary from leading

development experts’.

• Humanitarian Policy Network (HPN) Online Exchange– Centre for topical debate among

practicioners and policy makers in HPN.

• ODI Latin America and the Caribbean Group Blog– Blogs to raise profile of new ODI group

with commentary from researchers and guests.

Blogs – ODI blogs

• ODI Blogs offer an important channel for discussion and rapid dissemination of ODI research findings, especially for issues of topical interest.

• There has been policy impact from a few blogs.

• To write a blog, contact your communications officers.

Wikis – Wikipedia

• Video explaining basic concepts of Wikis– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

• Most famous Wiki site – Wikipedia– First point of reference on many subjects– ODI already has information there:– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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