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FedNetMany 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:

  1. To provide access to key information - operations, programmes, contact details, photographs, documents, presentations, useful links etc — to all secretariat and National Society personnel.
  2. 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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