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 Many
of you have already heard about, and started to use, FedNet,
one of the information tools of the International Federation.
We have created a youth section in FedNet, and hope continue to improve
it with your help and input. Therefore, we want to encourage youth
in the National Societies to take advantage of this information
tool! Signing up is easy, go to the login
page and request an account, or ask your National
Society to assist you. Read more
about FedNet below, and in the general
information page.
FedNet is the extranet of the International Federation — a private web
site for sharing information between volunteers, National Societies, and secretariat staff.
What is an extranet?
An extranet is, very simply, a web site for private information.
It differs from an intranet in that, while an intranet serves
only the internal computer network of an organization, an
extranet can be accessed over the Internet. Since the internet
is public, an extranet therefore needs some additional security
measures — you have to provide a user name and password
to get into it, and information may be encrypted as it passes
between the extranet and your web browser.
How is this different
from the public website?
The public website is meant for the general public, to give
information about what the International Federation does, and anyone in
the world can read it. FedNet is meant for an internal audience,
to provide a forum for accessing and sharing internal information
that we do not want to share with the public, or that is inappropriate
for the public.
What is the purpose
of FedNet?
FedNet has two main roles:
- To provide access to key information - operations, programmes,
contact details, photographs, documents, presentations, useful
links etc — to all secretariat and National Society personnel.
- To provide an interactive forum for online collaboration,
through initially, discussion forums, but other functions
will be added in the future.
Who will be able to use it?
FedNet is intended to be a Federation-wide communications
tool. Following the launch it was made accessible to all secretariat staff, both in Geneva, and in regional and zone offices, plus some staff in
National Societies. National Societies have since
added more of their own users according to their own interests.
The security system is flexible enough that we can also create
areas which can be accessed by, for example, donors, partner
agencies or suppliers without giving them access to the rest
of the site.
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