Solution Exchange is a project initiated by the United Nations Country Team
in India to build a discussion forum platform between communities of development
practitioners, where they can discuss current problems on various topics such as
AIDS, decentralization, education, enviro- nment, and water and benefit from
each other's solutions for day-to-day challenges they face. Here, people can
share similar concerns and interests, bringing them together virtually and
face-to-face toward the common objective of solving the problems. Communities
are organized around selected development targets of both India's Tenth
Five-Year Plan as well as the globally mandated Millennium Development Goals.
The project has two parts: email list and discussion board. All the
discussions held on the forum are mailed to every member in the mailer list.
When members reply to the mail, their replies automatically get posted on the
forums. The entire project is developed on an open source platform, integrating
applications like mailman and webforum (FUDForum). Features of the application
include web archiving, Email Bounce Report, E-Discussion List Service, Comment
List Service, Cross Post List Service, and integration with Wiki for Project
Documentation and Online User Manual (for internal users of the Solution
Exchange website).
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