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In July 2010, we retrieved 25,600 articles from 1,012 different sources.
We now store a total of 244,770 articles. (Details)

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About "Humanitarian News"

August 29, 2009 - 10:17

 

Tree in TuscanyThe new source of power
is not money
in the hands of a few,
but information
in the hands of many.

                     John Naisbitt
 




WHAT ?
Per month, "Humanitarian News" retrieves around 30,000 articles from over 1,000 different sources: blogs, websites or news bulletins. Each source covers humanitarian subjects, be it aid, development, humanitarian emergencies, poverty relief, news from the nonprofit sector or the environment. While all sources are carefully handpicked to keep the information relevant, the updates and retrieval of the articles are automated.

"Humanitarian News" is a personal initiative, started in August 2009. I continuously add new features.

WHY ?
A lot is published about aid, humanitarian work, and the nonprofit world as a whole. It fascinates me, both in the quantity of information and in the way it is dispersed. Few social aggregators, bookmarking and social media sites have categories specifically for the nonprofit sector, or offer selected news for the "soft" sector. Stuff is scattered everywhere. Searches via Google News on criteria like "aid" are more likely return articles about "financial aid to US banks" rather than publications about "development aid to Africa"...

Humanitarian News collects the nonprofit news in a simple, low bandwidth and searchable site. It gives those working in the nonprofit sector an easier overview, and helps in broadcasting humanitarian issues to the "general public". Call it "advocacy through information"...

HOW ?
"Humanitarian News" is split into different sections, sorted by source rather than subject:

  • AidNews contains only aid news articles and press releases from humanitarian agencies. There are about 180 different news sources in this stream, in addition to articles I select manually via Google Reader.
  • AidWorker Blogs publishes updates from 54 blogs by individual aidworkers spread all over the world. These people are "on the ground", working on development and aid projects.
  • NonProfit News contains the most recent updates from about 45 different sources in the soft sector: websites from individual organisations and sites specializing in nonprofit news.
  • NonProfit Blogs monitors for updates of 740 individual nonprofit blogs (The full list is available via my NonProfitBlogs Delicious bookmarks).
  • Green News covers articles about the environment and nature conservation, retrieved from 120 sources.

You can follow the latest updates via different Twitter streams.

Enjoy!

Peter

peter (at) theroadtothehorizon (dot) org