Research and Resource Database:
We are not just providing certain services for free in the form of grants, the more important aspect perhaps is the compilation and formation of the interactive resource and research database. This will combine
research and other related information available from the university/educational side, and the 'acm' front, to provide full spectrum resources to activists, professionals,students and hobbyists alike -
with a synthesis of collated material previously unavailable. It has freedom and autonomy built in, the space, the software and the programming is all being donated to the project, no-one will run it,
everyone involved will create it.
Please read on to see how simple the concept is....
The database is a free service to use and participate on, and has 2 main
focuses,
research and resources:
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1. Resouces:
- The resouce database will function by a person or group entering a particular resource, campaign, action, demonstration or function etc., they are proposing to do
or use, into a search field within a page on the internet.
Say for example a group is planning a forest protest....
(but it could be something as simple as finding a good source of cheap photocopying or recycled paper)
They key in the area they are working, forest type and the style of action they are preparing etc., and send their request for a reply.
What will come back, will be a list of all the organisations or individuals who might be prepared to do various things associated with that particular request, such as newsletter space on the issue, campaign assistance, equipment + hardware, people power, additional information, all with the contact details attatched. It doesn't mean people are obliged to do it, but who ever is approaching is alot less likely to be wasting your time and theirs.
For the donator, the donating is is easy too. the interaction is to whatever degree you choose. Take for example DTE (Down to Earth - Confest) who have, amongst other things, an extensive ground radio network. They are prepared to lend them for particular things, such as certain forest actions, with this database they can make these choices, right down to a nitty-gritty tree species if they want, again without wasting their own and other's time.
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2. Research :
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Exchange between universities and other research type institutions, and the 'acm' will give a lot more relevance to issues than either sides alone can, and the internet caters for this interaction and unending expansion in real time, where hardcopy is outdated.
It will function by someone entering a request into a search feild on the net, such as East Gippsland Forests. What will come back will be all the relevant information available from
ALL of these various resources, from GECO to the Environment Archives at Monsh University, providing information collation of previously unknown scope, with the ease of a phone book.
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