Scientists Without Borders has created an online database that consolidates and centralises key information about individuals, projects, and organisations that work or would like to work in the developing world. This tool will enable institutions and individual researchers to register key information about themselves, and to find out who is doing what and where it is being done. For example, a sub-Saharan African university that wants to bolster its microbiology curriculum may be able to locate individuals anywhere in the world who are willing and qualified to teach microbiology for 8 weeks in the summer. Or an organisation that is delivering vaccines (or mosquito nets or any component of health care) to a particular community could use this database to find a collaborating agency that could create a safe drinking water supply for that same community. After logging on to this portal, one may apply to join this central information repository (the portal also includes a section that will house educational articles; eventually, the site will provide community-building tools).

Health, HIV/AIDS, Environment, Natural Resource Management, Economic Development.