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WHAT CAN WIDE DO FOR YOUR INSTITUTION?

The Web of Information for Development - WIDE - is a confederation of rosters of experts built by institutions from the South.

• What can WIDE do for your expertise database?
• How does WIDE support the efforts of your institution?
• What can WIDE provide your institution?
• What are the WIDE roster-management support services?

What can WIDE do for your expertise database?

• Southern institutions with no expertise database can build and manage their own roster of experts.



• Southern institutions with established expertise databases may promote their information to a wider international audience.

How does WIDE support the efforts of your institution?

WIDE helps you to:

• better identify and index your institution's own expertise;
• enhance the visibility of and access to its experts;
• access the expertise of others.

WIDE provides your institution with:

• a cost-effective alternative for the creation of its own databases;
• a platform with a complete operational solution to build its own roster;
• full control of management and criteria to register membership;
• an international standard for data exchange, HR-XML;
• freedom to create customized applications to use the data in ways best suited to its own special needs.

WIDE roster management support includes:

• enabling and monitoring self-service use by the experts for entries and updates of data;
• membership management;
• regular data updating campaigns;
• communication with the experts community;
• improved security;
• a human resources data interchange standard;
• referral/recommendations management;
• cost-reduction of the roster-management function.