Now that the ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme is entering its final year, the new 
Programme team is working in close collaboration with ID21, the Development Research 
reporting service, to disseminate the work of the Programme.

Academics, consultants and NGOs based in the UK produce a constant stream of development 
research findings. Yet all too often, those who make or implement development policy are 
unaware of this new information and its policy implications.  Recent developments in information 
technologies can help to bridge this knowledge gap. The UK Department for International 
Development is backing an Internet-based system which links development research and 
researchers directly to policymakers and development practitioners around the world through a 
new website. Hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, the initiative is known as ID21 - or 
Information for Development in the 21st Century.  Its key feature is a searchable online collection 
of short, one-page (500-word) digests of the latest social and economic research studies across 
30 key topic fields.  

ID21 is now online and can be found at:

http://www.id21.org

But many users around the world have only slow or intermittent Internet access and are therefore 
unable to browse the World-Wide Web as freely as they would like.  Other users simply prefer 
email.  To cater for these users ID21 have created an email newsletter called ID21NEWS.  

ID21NEWS brings you regular updates of the latest research findings which have been added to 
the ID21 collection.  A short summary tells you about each study and a clickable web-link takes 
you directly to the full text of the digest on the web, thereby saving you from navigating a series 
of web pages.  ID21 are currently developing a system to enable you to request each digest 
automatically via email. This should become available later this year.

How to subscribe to ID21NEWS

Simply send a blank email message to: [log in to unmask] In the subject field include the 
words: subscribe id21news

(NB: to unsubscribe, follow the same procedure but substituting the word "unsubscribe" in place 
of "subscribe".)

Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues who may also be interested in ID21, and if 
you have practical suggestions for making ID21’s online services more useful or accessible in 
the future, please send email them to [log in to unmask]






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