Ongoing

dgCommunities is a collaborative web-based knowledge sharing and collaboration network offering space for professionals working to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development worldwide to post knowledge, tools, contacts, and more with members in 200 countries. It is a project of the Development Gateway Foundation.

Its online communities support the following range of development topics (as of November 2008):

Development Effectiveness

1. Aid Effectiveness
2. Capacity Development
3. Civil Society
4. Glocalization
5. Governance

Human Development

1. Culture and Development
2. Gender and Development
3. Indigenous Issues
4. Youth for Development

Environment

1. Environment and Development
2. Urban Development
3. Water Resources Management

Health and Nutrition

1. Food Security
2. HIV/AIDS
3. Population and Reproductive Health

Education

1. E-learning
2. Open Educational Resources

    
Economic Development

1. Business Environment
2. Foreign Direct Investment
3. Knowledge Economy
4. Microfinance
5. Poverty
6. Trade and Development

Technology and Development

1. E-government
2. Information and Communication
3. Technologies for Development
4. Nanotechnology for Development

Disaster and Conflict

1. Disaster Prevention & Response
2. Stabilization & Reconstruction
3. Afghanistan Reconstruction
4. Iraq: Relief and Recovery

Regional Interest

1. Arab Reform
2. China Poverty Relief Forum

Email from Elizabeth Corley to the Communication Initiative on May 23 2008.