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The future

Beyond implementing the website and CBNRM Net, and evaluating the pilot phase, and granted that necessary funding will be secured, several important changes and developments can be envisioned. Among them:

  1. Some changes would center on further decentralization of content provision, and could include regional editorial boards for the CBNRM Net website and the CBNRM Net Newsletter. Such regional initiatives would likely utilize regionally important languages, for example, French in West Africa. To further increase access and usability, regional mirror sites could be set up
  2. One important change would be to move from a limited stakeholder involvement in knowledge management and specific content provision, through Distributed Web Teams, to stakeholder involvement in overall website management
  3. Initial comments from CBNRM practitioners indicate that there is substantial interest in building up the online case study database (see Category Cases). A concerted strategy to develop this tool should be made, together with efforts to locate existing material, and invite CBNRM Net members and other CBNRM practitioners to produce case studies specifically for CBNRM Net
  4. In a concrete CBNRM context, we often find that the right technical, environmental, social, language or facilitating expertise is not available, when and where it is needed. CBNRM Net can play an important role in connecting those that have specific CBNRM knowledge expertise with those that need it. This can be done through use of existing CBNRM Net tools as well as new ones, for example, an online CBNRM consulting service