Source is everywhere Water news servicesWater news services

http://www.irc.nl/sourcehttp://www.irc.nl/source

INCO, 12 October 2007Caridad Machin Camacho

I read the article “Water reuse: a technological low cost possibility for developing countries”, an

experience from New Zealand. I made further research and we are applying the technology now in

Colombia.”

[Francisco Burbano, Basic Politics Officer, UNICEF, Colombia, (2006)]

Content

Source Bulletin Structure

Product

Inputs

Team

Source Weekly Structure

Inputs

Team

Background What (content) and target group

Outputs Audience Impact

Latest development Tract record

BACKGROUND

• Launched in 1998

• Co-funded by WSSCC

• Replace IRC’s quarterly English and French newsletters and its bi-monthly current awareness bulletin Highlights

What and target

• Combination of sector news digests, original feature stories and corporate news from IRC and contributing partners

• to more than 40,000 policy makers, sector professionals and information specialists.

Source Bulletin Structure

Source BulletinPaper

Global projectQuarterly

(SB)EnglishIRC

Cap-NetGWA

WSSCC (2008)

(SNES)FrenchIRC/CREPA

Cap-NetGWA

WSSCC (2008)

BdeA&S SpanishIRC/CINARA

Cap-NetGWA

WSSCC (2008)

IRC- Thematic 2p.GWA- gender 2 p.Cap-Net-Cdev. 2pIRC 3p + Crepa 2p +1RE(2008IRC/less+WSSCC2p+Crepa1/protos1)

IRC-Thematic 3 p.GWA- gender 2 p.Cap-Net-Cdev. 2pIRC+partners 3p+RE 2p(2008IRC/RE/less)&WSSCC2p

IRC- Thematic 2p.GWA- gender 2 p.Cap-Net-Cdev. 2pIRC 3p + Cinara 2p +1RE (in 2008IRC/less+WSSCC2p)CGIAB?

Subscribers5 000

1100Subscribers

1 000 subscribers

Source Product

Source Bulletin Team

I am in charge of final desk -top publisher

I translate/ select news

for BdN

I am Source Coordinator and editor

I translate/edit SN & ES

Peter McIntyre

I edit SB

I do the last quality check SB

I am SB Editor and SW

contributor

I Contribute with two

pages to SB

I Contribute with two

pages to SB

Source Weekly, Sources Nouvelles, Boletin de Noticias

“Source Weekly has for years been my most convenient and reliable source

of information about water and sanitation development at global and

national levels”

[Ingvar Andersson, Senior Water Advisor, SIDA (2006)]

Source Weekly & new initiatives

Facts & Figures – inputs2006

Source Channel Days/yr PartnerSW Email

Web161 -

SN EmailWeb

22 CREPA,H2O.net

BN EmailWeb

22 CINARA

SW/J Email 0 JICWELS

SSA Email ??? UNICEF ROSA

Total 205

Source Weekly TeamI Edit SW

I translate/select news for BdN

I am a back up for SW

Rodrigo

I am Source Coordinator and editor

I translate/edit SN & ES

I help with the selection of news for

SW

I help with the

selection of news for

SW

Peter McIntyre

I am SB Editor and SW

contributor

Facts & Figures - outputs

2007Paper Electronic

issues subscribers issues subscribers

English 4 5 000 22 3 950

French 4 1 110 11 1 450

Spanish 4 1 000 11 4 000

South Asia 8 550

Japanese n.a. n.a

7 110 9 950

Audience/distribution/page views 2006

Source Readers (estimate)

Page views (2005)

Distribution

SW (E) 12,500 160,000 All regions

SN (F) 6,000 122,000 W-Africa, Europe, LA, N-America

BN (S) 14,500 264,000 LA, Europe

SW (J) 500 n.a. Japan

total 33,500 546,000

Impact and indicators of success

• Source has the widest outreach and frequency of all IRC publications.

Examples of impact:• SW items regularly feature in other news services,

including European Water Management News , World Water Council news, Right to Water, FAN E-Bulletin, PPP Newsletter and EMWIS Flash

• A quote in SW in 2003 drew the attention of the South African Director-General and Minister for water

• Articles from SW helped NGOs get funding

Source latest developments

Rethinking the production process is underway• Efficient new collection using new Web tools (tagging,

RSS, pageminder, weblogs)• Flexible production process in eZ publish:

– Easily add newsletter option to any website in portal– Reuters-like stream of news items– Newsfeeds (RSS) based on selected themes/regions (tags)– Subscribers can select from different formats:

• plain text (small size)• HTML (better formatted, clearer separation of

sections, links from ToC to item, etc)

• Visitor participation (feedback, contributions)

Track record

• Multilingual, multi-channel news service (web, e-mail, print): – English (in-house) – French (with CREPA) – Spanish (with CINARA) – Jicwels Japanese

• Overall subscriptions ±15,000• 75,000 – 90,000 readers

• 552,439 page views in 2006• Good feedback (readers react section, web comments)• External contributions (e.g. field diary)

SB in Asia,Africa and Europe

INDIA

KENYA

TANZANIA, UNITED REP

ETHIOPIANIGERIA

THE NETHERLANDS

BURKINA FASO

NEPAL

GHANA

ZAMBIA

INDONESIA

UGANDA

UNITED STATES