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Notes and Reading
1. Adapted from the Sustainable Development Gateway Webworks website architecture proposed at
http://sdgateway.net/webworks/architecture/default.htm
2. For evidence of this pattern see Wilkins. K. and Waters, J. (2000) Current Discourse on New Technologies in Development Communication. Media Development, 1, pp56-60
And
Samuel, J. (2000) Dotcom Delusions. Humanscape, June Issue. New Delhi: India.
Tan, M. (1999) Electronic Information: Promise and Peril. Development in Practice, 1999, Vol.9, No.5, Oxford: Oxfam.
LaBond, C. (2000) Is Internet Access Helping or Hindering Civil Society Organisations?
http://www.idrc.ca/
Nelson, T. (2000) Only Connect? NGOs need more than Technology Access to Build Civil Society.
http://www.isar.org/isar/archive/GT/GT6nelson.html
Hamelink, C. (1998) The People's Communication Charter. Development in Practice, 1998, Vol.8, No.1. Oxford: Oxfam.
Uimonen, P. (1997) Internet as a Tool for Social Development. Geneva: UNRISD. Available within
http://www.unrisd.org
3. Camacho, K. (2001) Evaluating the Impact of the Internet in Civil Society Organisations of Central America: a Summary of the Research Framework. Ottawa: IDRC
http://www.acceso.or.cr/publica/telecom/frmwkENG.shtml
4. McConnell, S (2000) A Champion in our Midst: Lessons Learned from the Impacts of NGOs Use of the Internet. Ontario: Telecommons Development Group. This article can be found at http://www.telecommons.com/reports.cfm
5. This assumption is based upon the author's comprehensive attempts to find examples of website evaluation methodologies for CSOs. Only three methodology papers were located following a campaign of announcements on ICT and Development list-serves, extensive Internet searches and personal communications.
6. See
http://www.ids.ac.uk/
7. Elms, T. (1999) Lies, Damned Lies, and Web Statistics.
http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Servers/Statistics/ss03.html
8. Anderson, S., Willard, T., Creech, H. and Bakker, D. (2001) Tools for Assessing Website Usage. Winnipeg: IISD. Available upon request from
http://www.iisd.org
9. Sandoval, V. (2000) Sandoval's Evaluation Website Methodology. Paris: E'cole Centrale. Unpublished Paper.
10. Chivhanga, B. (2001) Carrying Out Impact Assessments of Websites: Concepts and Techniques. London: ISRG.
11. The Evaluation Framework is a unique document but draws upon Saywell, D (2000) Dissemination Pathways and Indicators of Impact on Development: a Review of the Literature. Loughborough: Loughborough University.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/wedc/specialist-activities/kt/publications/index.htm
And
National Research Council (1998) Internet Counts: Measuring the Impacts of the Internet. Washington: National Academy Press.
12. For evidence of accessibility problems when downloading Word or PDF documents see: Staff Writers (1999) Windows 95 remains most popular operating system in 1999. CNETNews.com, July, 1999.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0,10000,0-1006-200-345114,00.html
And
Barrett, E., Levinson, D. and Lisanti, S. (2001) The MIT Guide to Teaching Website Design. London: MIT Press.
13. See Nielsen, J. (1999) Voodoo Usability.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991212.html
14. For more information on Dr HTML see
http://www2.imagiware.com/
A single webpage analysis can be conducted at
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
15. For more information about the World Wide Web Consortium and for details of how invalid HTML can be fixed visit
http://www.w3.org/
16. See
http://timothyhopkins.com/usability/downloadtimes.htm
17. Nielsen, J. (1999) Voodoo Usability.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991212.html
18. See Nielsen, J. and Landauer, T. (1993) A Mathematical Model of the Finding of Usability Problems. Proceedings of ACM INTERCHI'93 Conference, 24-29 April, 1993. Amsterdam: ACM.
19. See Nielsen, J. (1999) Can't We Just Run a Survey.
20. See Nielsen, J. (1999) On-line Usability Testing.
http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2224340-84,00.html
21. To make use of this service please contact
john.bywater@appropriatesoftware.net
22. Anderson, S., Willard, T., Creech, H. and Bakker, D. (2001) Tools for Assessing Website Usage. Winnipeg: IISD. Available upon request from
http://www.iisd.org
23. The guidelines detailed were expanded upon using Mouty, G. (1999) Literature Review on User-friendly Interface Design. UNED-UK.
And
Willard, T. (2001) Communicating Sustainable Development on the Web. IISD Draft Paper. Winnipeg: IISD. Available upon request from
http://www.iisd.org
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