LIPortal

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LIPortal - the country information portal
The country information portal
State public information page
languages German
operator German Society for International Cooperation
editorial staff German Society for International Cooperation
On-line since 2016 (currently active )
https://www.liportal.de/

LIPortal - Country-information portal is a site that fundamental and constantly updated, developmentally relevant information to developing countries provides. It is operated by the German Society for International Cooperation and looked after by specialist editors. The portal has existed in its current form since 2016. The portal is part of the training courses offered by the Academy for International Cooperation , which prepares development workers for their work abroad. The coordination and development of the website is supervised by employees of the academy. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development .

Almost a hundred editors, each of whom are proven experts, oversee the country information on over eighty countries (as of March 2018). The starting point of the start page is an interactive world map on which the countries about which information is available are colored and which leads to the respective information offers by clicking on it. Alternatively there is a sitemap with an alphabetically sorted list of countries. The entries are largely designed in parallel and each cover five areas, namely “Overview”, “History and State”, “Economy and Development”, “Society” and “Everyday Life”.

After the country information had been available under changing URLs for a number of years , most recently from 2009 within the framework of the Inwent development work group , a relaunch was carried out in 2016 , which also introduced its own logo. The technical and creative implementation was carried out by two Berlin internet agencies. The programming was geared towards search engine optimization and barrier poverty, the layout was adapted to the corporate design of the German development agencies. The TYPO3 interface is intended to ensure that the content can be easily changed by the editors. A responsive design for good mobile usability was emphasized.

The Swiss development policy working group Alliance Sud describes the LIPortal as a “useful publicly accessible, continuously updated knowledge resource”. The information portal on political education judges that the LIPortal covers a “broad spectrum on relevant aspects of international cooperation”.

Web links

  • LIPortal.de - homepage of the country information portal

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Imprint of the LIPortal.
  2. ↑ Homepage of the LIPortal.
  3. ↑ a b c Information relevant to development policy. In: Grafikdesign Bar M , March 22, 2016; Tweet from undkonsorten on November 18, 2016 about the relaunch.
  4. ↑ a b Reference website: LIPortal - the country information portal. In: Alliancesud.ch. Recorded on March 16, 2017.
  5. ↑ Karsten Weitzenegger: Selected web links. In: Weitzenegger.de , April 29, 2009.
  6. ↑ Und Konsortenseiten: References. In: UndKonsorten.com.
  7. ↑ LIPortal - the country information portal. In: Information portal on political education .