Existing Centres

OneWorld is dedicated to working with others to bring about a vision of a world where resources are shared fairly and sustainably, where human rights are nurtured and protected, and where democratic governance structures enable people to shape their own lives. It therefore responds to organisations from different corners of the world who share the same vision. They work together to support the OneWorld partner organisations and create the OneWorld pages for their particular regions.

Centres are autonomous, non-profit organisations who share the values and vision of OneWorld and want to make use of its name, technology and worldwide audience to build on the potential of the net in their own area and languages.

If your organisation shares our values and you are planning to run a portal site aggregating material for global justice organisations in your region, then you might like to consider applying to become a OneWorld centre. In this way you will pick up the immediate advantage of the spidering, databasing and page authoring software that OneWorld has developed over the past five years, as well as working with editorial partners around the world devoted to sharing information and expertise on the same issues.

At present there are eleven OneWorld centres - in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Helsinki, London, Lusaka, Montréal (not shown in diagram below), New Delhi, San José, Trento, Vienna, Washington - participating in the OneWorld network.

The network of centres is held together by OneWorld International. This has two aspects: OneWorld International Foundation and OneWorld International Ltd.

• OneWorld International Foundation\'s Board is composed democratically of trustees nominated (one per centre) by the network\'s eight centres around the world, according to an agreed set of guidelines.
• OneWorld International Ltd is a not-for-profit company that carries out the day-today work of co-ordinating the network of OneWorld centres. It is owned by the Foundation and any balance the company makes is covenanted back to the Foundation.

The work of the centres

Each centre contributes to the work of the whole, especially in two ways.

i) Partnership
A partnership manager in each centre administers the OneWorld partners in its locality. As OneWorld particularly values the \'bottom up\' knowledge of people living unheard, struggling to free themselves from poverty or marginalisation, each local centre will also identify groups, especially grassroots groups, who might become partners.

At present the OneWorld partnership is an online community of over 1250 partner organisations covering a spectrum of development, environmental and human rights activities. All these partners share their information and ideas freely through OneWorld\'s public interest portal dedicated to issues of global justice.

ii) Editorial
Each centre also has an editor or team of editors who organise OneWorld\'s pages. These pages include documents in many languages - in Spanish, French, Italian, Portugese, Arabic, English, Dutch, German, Finnish, Swedish, among many others.

The editors produce editions in languages spoken in their locality. For example:

• Unimondo (ie. OneWorld Italy) produces an Italian edition.
• Several centres that operate in English ­ UK, India, the US and Zambia ­ collectively produce a world English edition, called OneWorld.net.

Some of the centres are also beginning to produce global channels where all of OneWorld\'s material on a given theme can easily be found.

Position at July 2002