Work package 3

Hi there!

I contacted some people to find out how we could proceed with our work package No. 3, i.e. to find out the opinions on how we can best reach people from areas with pour data accessibility and how we can include them in the network. This is what I found out and some ideas I had:

In general working off-line is very difficult, especially as we are worldwide network. However some methods we could use are:

1.Creating a bulletin, which could be mailed every 3 to 6 months to the interested ones and which could include the present movements of our network and in the special areas. It is also a chance for people from the development countries to present what’s going on in their regions. As it is something tangible it mediates the sense of urgency and significance.

2.There could be off-line meetings, but not just at such big events like world conferences, where our colleagues from remote areas are updated with movements and news from the Health Promotion front as well as they cold update us with their issues.

3. SMS contacts – I am not sure in which way we could use them, but I think it is worth to keep them in mind

4. Distributing business cards to promote the ISCEN in a way that also people without internet get to know us and join us.
While I was thinking about this issue I realized that we haven’t got a Cooperate Identity that labels us. I think it is really important to have a symbol that people connect to us. It would be also something we should have on our blogs and later on the website.
At the beginning the regional coordinators, the general secretary and all who promote our movement in the public should be provided with these cards.

However I also heard that internet-services are increasingly spreading in development countries which will be a huge advance for our work. It allows us also to have some communications through Skype, which was another suggested method to keep in touch and which as far as I know, some of us already started.

We definitely should have feedback loops with the affected people so that we find out what we should change and in what we are doing well.

I also got some further contacts, who we could 1. ask to join us and 2. who could help us in our further endeavors to create a network, that is accessible for everyone. But before we do that I think we should talk about some concrete steps, we want to go in the future.

The realization of a lot of these ideas is not possible without a funding, so it is really urgent to find ways how we could finance us!!!

At this point I want to thank all the people who shared their ideas with me! You are amazing!

Kristin