Interportal.ch has arisen to one of the major Swiss websites covering international cooperation and development policy. 50 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) feed this site with their news and background information. Interportal.ch serves the following purposes:
- to offer the Swiss public a good starting point into the issues of international development cooperation and development policy
- to dispose in-depth information and web resources
- to promote campaigns and events
- to exchange information within the NGO community
Organisations funding this project include development and relief agencies, political and cultural organisations, educational and counseling institutions, etc. Links to all member organisations can be found at the footer of each page.
Languages of interportal.ch are German, French and – to a limited extend – English.
Funding organisations and their experts provide all basic information. However, as an open platform, all interested people are invited to contribute to this site (in German or French). Allow editors a maximum of two working days to review your entry. Racist, sexist and other degrading entries cannot be tolerated.
Furthermore, interportal.ch cooperates with like-minded international sites, in particular with OneWorld Network (www.oneworld.net) and the German Entwicklungspolitik online (www.epo.de). Selected news from their sites are published on interportal.ch. Press Agency InfoSüd in Berne is the resonsible editor.
The idea for a Swiss website on development issues had developed immediately after the legendary journal „mosquito“ ceased publication in March 2000. Medicus Mundi Switzerland invested a significant amount of resources to make this idea materialising. A project team set up of representatives of Swisscoalition, the Berne Declaration, cinfo, Swissaid and Medicus Mundi realized the project and on June 5, 2001 interportal.ch went online.HyperWerk, the University for modern communication technologies in Basel, did all the technical development.
interportal.ch has been relaunched in its present version in 2008, using the OpenSource CMS plone. Design www.fugu.ch, plone adaption: www.4teamwork.ch.
