Of newspapers and websites

My years as a policy researcher taught me at least one lesson: the day begins with a read of the newspapers! This rule is even stronger when one is building a website, looking for material that will give a website a clear niche and be of use to consistent users. Newspaper stories provide leads to new projects and processes, research reports and, in this case, conference outcomes which must be followed up. Readers will hear more about my experiences with iGoogle in future blogs: over the weekend one of the feeds highlighted a news report about a conference declaration from a Pan African Parliament (PAP) convened process with African women. The ANSA-Africa website contains a section on communiques, started to capture the outcomes of relevant international, African and regional conferences. Unfortunately the PAP www does not yet contain the full declaration (I await it from their media crowd so it can be posted in that section): in the meantime we will have to make do with the news report, which I have just posted on the FANRPAN and ANSA-Africa wwws. It would seem that only Afrique en Ligne has picked up the conference outcome in any depth; many of my newsflashes come from that news agency. It is worth taking a look at and subscribing to via their RSS feed.