newsletFeb03.htmlCED NEWSLETTER- DEC 2003
Dear Friends,
Diwali
went by, Id was here and Christmas is coming! Another year is coming to
an end. And our 25 years celebrations are drawing to a close!
Greetings on all these occasions from CED – this time from both
Bangalore & Mumbai. CED would also like to wish one and all A Very
Happy New Year- 2004.
YOU DONT NEED TO VISIT US!
Come NEW
YEAR 2004, CED will also be a `virtual documentation centre’. You could
use our centre by sitting in your homes. CED’s electronic documentation
now contains more than twelve thousand two hundred and fifty (12,250)
documents, clippings. We are adding to it at the rate of sixteen
(16) documents per day. Members will be able to access this
through our Extranet (restricted area on the website where only members
can access information) from their homes through the Internet. At
CED also, we have several computer kept aside for members, who can now
use our computers to check what we have, as well as search the NET for
development information. We have both systems: (i) the general
kind of search by `keywords’ or `titles’, (ii) special issue
based electronic packages so that young people can figure out an issue
before being confronted with hugh long lists of what they call “hits”
that knock you out!
Check our E-DIGESTS.
Now it hardly
matters if you are not in Bangalore or Mumbai. You can make use of our
services from any part of the globe. With your membership we will give
you a Users login ID and Password, which will allow you to access the
information you want sitting in your homes. Members can also access
these documents by email. Write to us at
docemail@doccentre.orgSO, JOIN THE CED FAMILY…..BECOME A MEMBER….RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP…AVAIL OUR SPECIAL SERVICES AND OFFERS.
CED'S WEBSITE
Our
website has been given a facelift. It has been packed with a lot of
interesting articles and information which we think will be relevant
for anyone in the social / development sector. It is also in the
process of becoming more interactive in the next month. There will be a
space for you too. It has also been made easy for you to search the
various catalogues and databases that we have from your own location.
This covers our books, journals, reports and press clippings with a
reference number, an abstract, publisher information etc. Do
visit our website www.doccentre.org
HELP! HELP! HELP US UPDATE OUR RECORDS!
We’ve
received complaints from several of our friends that they have not been
getting the monthly newsletters, which informs you about CED and the
events that are going on. So this mail is being sent to all of you from
our old mailing list. You need to reply to us, to correct your address
and MORE IMPORTANTLY GIVE US YOUR E-MAIL address. In order to help us
send you only stuff that you want, tell us what you are interested in,
by filling the enclosed INLAND LETTER or e-form
(www.doccentre.org/update-contact.php) and return it to us. This will
help us update our Mailing List System (MLS) to serve you better.
STUDY SCHOLARSHIP FOR ACTIVISTS
CED
with the help of a grant from the Sir Ratan Tata Trust has instituted a
scholarship to enable activists to take a break from their work, and
study and reflect on the State of the Art of NGO Organisations/People’s
Movements and so on. The amount of scholarship varies from Rs. 20,000
to 60,000 for work ranging from two to six months. For details write to
us.
CED-INSAANIYAT SCHOLARSHIP ON SOCIAL VIOLENCE
WE received
a good response to our first call for proposals from students for the
CED-Insaaniyat Scholarships. The recipients are on the way to writing
their papers, and meanwhile we would like to invite more applications
for the second batch of scholarships.
The scholarship will provide:
An
honorarium of Rs. 3000/-, Expenses for basic surface travel and DA up
to about Rs. 1000/- depending on the proposal submitted by the student,
a year's complimentary membership to CED to provide research and
documentation facilities to the scholar for the project, the second
tranche of scholarships for Students on social violence has been
announced. For details check our website
(www.doccentre.org/scholarship1.htm or write to
uma@doccentre.org.
WSF & MR 2004
The
World Social Forum and a parallel event, Mumbai Resistance 2004 are
being held in Mumbai (Jan 16th to Jan 21st 2004). CED is committed to
make "Another World Possible" through its information activism
(broadbasing information access and exchange rather than keeping it
exclusive while at the same time being relevant and not trivial
elitism) we have information to suit the needs of people working in the
area of development. To know more about the kind of information we have
for you and to see and believe it, VISIT US AT THE CED STALL. We
will have our files on Globalisation, our electronic documentation, as
well as our recent publications: Development Digest (details in
enclosed flyer) and Backgrounders (The Long and Winding Road, New
Economics, Let us make it happen) on display. If you are going to be
present at the WSF and have specific documentation on a topic, write to
us immediately so that we can have it there for you.
LET US JOIN HANDS AND WORK TOWARDS MAKING ANOTHER WORLD POSSIBLE.
Regards and Best Wishes,
Sd
CED TEAM (Mumbai and Bangalore)
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