2000
Web Site and Public Outreach
Web Site
Global Policy Forum's web site grew during the year to over 6,000 resident web pages. The site also added links to hundreds of additional documents and sites, located in dozens of countries. This gave GPF an extremely powerful and cost-effective communication tool.
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During the year, we posted over 1,500 new pages – the equivalent of 3,000 or more text pages, almost a small encyclopedia. Staff members also substantially re-organized materials and created new features on the site. They added many new data tables and graphs, as well as new photos and illustrations. For ease of navigation, we greatly expanded the site-map and created a comprehensive alphabetical index to the site. During 2000, tens of thousands of people from every continent visited the site. Use of the site rose to over four million hits – more than double the year before. Every year the site has doubled in size – a truly remarkable growth rate. In 2001, we expect the site to grow at this same rate -- to between eight and nine million hits. |
Electronic Newsletter
A weekly electronic newsletter, known as a "list-serv," enables GPF to announce our new web site postings and to communicate current information and analysis with a constantly expanding group of subscribers. By Annual, subscribers from over 50 countries were receiving the newsletter.
During 2000, we enlarged the analytical essays and provided broader information. Many subscribers forwarded our texts and links to lists of friends or incorporated them into their own regular newsletters. One World Trust in Britain, for example, sends out a newsletter to parliamentarians in the UK and the rest of Europe that makes heavy use of GPF information and includes many links to our site. Often, journalists and authors tell us they make use of the list-serv information for their writings in newspapers and other media.
Media
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During 2000, the media often called on GPF for information and analysis. They asked us about UN finance, NGOs and global governance, Iraq sanctions, the UN Millennium Summit, conflict diamonds, Security Council reform, and the UN and the private sector. We talked to media from Japan, Britain, South Africa, New Zealand, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Algeria, and Kenya, as well as international media such as CNN. Two television tapings were shot in the GPF office – by NHK Japan TV and South Africa TV. Yomiuri Shimbun of Tokyo, the world's largest daily newspaper, interviewed us three times. We talked to journalists from a wide range of political backgrounds, from Pacifica Radio and Neues Deutschland to the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. |
Jim Paul being interviewed by Georgina Cooper |
Lectures, Conferences and Briefings
During the year, we had many invitations to speak and to participate in conferences. Director Jim Paul traveled to Canada in late January where he was a principal speaker at a conference in Ottawa jointly organized by the United Nations Association of Canada and the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He spoke in July at an event on financing for development at the Expo2000 world's fair in Hanover, Germany, and in December at a conference in Berlin.
Jim also spoke at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, the University of Tennessee, the NGO Millennium Forum, a briefing of the UN Department of Public Information and a number of other events.
Visiting student groups and NGO partners occasionally ask GPF for briefings on UN and global policy issues. During the year we responded to several of these requests from programs at Duke University, Carlton University, Hamline University, and the School of International Training, as well as the Mennonite and Presbyterian UN offices.
Support for Researchers, Experts, and NGO Advocacy Campaigners
During 2000 we provided information, support and research assistance to many experts, researchers and advocacy campaigners who came to GPF for help. Such requests came from (among many others): the Canadian Foreign Ministry, Save the Children UK, One World Trust, Foreign Policy in Focus, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Heinrich Bí¶ll Foundation, the World Federalist Movement, CorpWatch, the World Council of Churches, Southern Africa Resource Centre, the Institute for Policy Studies, the International Forum on Globalization, the Policy Planning Unit of the Executive Office of the Secretary General, and UNICEF.
Requests came as well from many unaffiliated authors and students preparing theses and dissertations for advanced degrees. GPF also responded to hundreds of emails and phone calls from students, NGOs, media and citizens from many lands.
Meetings, Receptions, Consultations and Contact with Policymakers
GPF participated in many policy meetings, strategy sessions, receptions, luncheons, informal consultations and other such gatherings during 2000. We had meetings with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy, German Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin, Bank for International Settlements Director General Andrew Crockett and UN Assistant Secretary General John Ruggie. In addition to events with diplomats and Secretariat officials, we met often with grassroots activists, students, and NGO representatives from many countries.
Introduction
International Peace and Security | UN Finance | Social and Economic Policy | NGOs
Interns, Research Scholars and Friends | Administration & Budget
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