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10/05/2005 Dgroups: example of 'off-the-rack' online tools Dgroups: Development Through Dialogue 
Dgroups: Development Through Dialogue
Dgroups is an online home for groups and communities interested in international development.
In Dgroups, one can find the online tools and services needed to support the activities of a team, a group, a network, a partnership or a community.
Dgroups currently supports 1455 groups, containing 43043 members.
Site can be open or closed (public or private).  Each site has the same simple layout and offers a set of standard tools - mailing list, combination document repository, links and news list, contact list, and calendar.  Is is explicitly designed with low bandwidth users in mind.
A couple of examples of sites:

Schools Against Hunger

Cyber Community for Disadvantaged Groups

A project is underway to move DGroups to the CivicSpace Drupal platform.  This will make a much wider range of tools available to participating groups.

Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS, and World Bank.