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ccd.net is an internet resource for communities, artists and organisations working in the field of community cultural development. Its assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, and by the South Australian Government through Arts SA.

CBIR Online - Creativity Based Information Resources is a database maintained by The Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College. Currently, the database contains over 11,630 annotated references of works focusing on creativity.

This site concentrates on making art to heal, on the power of the creative process of art as a healing force. In art and healing, no interpretation or therapy is necessary. The creative process is the healer. Here, art is transformational in itself. The field of art therapy and the field of expressive arts also uses art in healing, but tend to concentrate more on therapy or method and involve training and /or licensing although there is much overlap in ways of working. They are wonderful fields and are usually different from art and healing as discussed on this site. On this site there is information about how art heals, the history of the art and healing, and how each person can heal themselves with art, music, and dance It shares the experiences of healers working in medical programmes using art, and of artists making healing art to heal themselves, others, and the earth. It give you links to other art and healing sites, earth sites, and ritual healing sites on the web. It also have links to art therapy and expressive art sites for readers who are interested art therapy. It acts as a centre of art and healing energy on the web, to help heal you, others, and the earth.

A detailed listing of professional organisations working in art therapy. It includes details of various arts programmes and links to other web sites and projects.

The Culture and Development Development Topic group on the World Bank-supported Development Gateway Internet information and discussion service has been joined by a new one on E-Commerce in relation to the cultural industries: E-Commerce for Arts & Crafts. This already has almost 100 resources.

This new initiative envisions a website full of creative responses for healing and reconciliation. It is a project of Herm Weaver and John Paul Lederach. Herm is a roofer, a psychology professor, and always a singer/songwriter. John Paul is a mediator, a professor, and always a storyteller. Both work on the question of reconciliation and healing, and believe there is great potential for nurturing these processes through songs and stories. The site features the Dream the Light CD, a song and story in response to September 11, books, videos and other resources.

The Development Gateway is an interactive portal for information and knowledge sharing on sustainable development and poverty reduction. The Development Gateway’s Culture and Development Topic Area aims to provide an authoritative entry point to, and focus for, information and discussion about all the key issues, including Arts, Crafts & Media, Cultural Management, Cultural Policy, Cultural Tourism, Heritage, Preservation, Heritage in Danger and The Economics of Culture.

The Panos Oral Testimony Programme has launched a new website which presents a collection of interviews gathered by and from communities in selected mountain and highland regions. To date more than 250 interviews have been recorded in local languages, and transcribed, translated and summarised. The testimonies come from communities in the western Himalaya of India, the Cerro de Pasco region in the Peruvian Andes, Mount Elgon in Kenya, the highlands of Ethiopia and Lesotho, Nepal, and from southwest and northeast China. Each collection is only a snapshot, and does not claim to be representative of entire mountain groups. But the range of individual voices does provide a vivid picture of highland societies, their changing physical and social environments, and their concerns for the future. The main content of the site consist of text summaries of each interview. Each summary presents a profile of the interviewee, an overview of the interview, and a detailed page by page description of the topics covered. The site also provides information about the locations where the testimonies were collected, and the partner organisations involved in the project; and the themes and concerns (with quotes) which emerge in each collection. The testimony summaries are accessible by region and by theme. It is easy, for example, to look through all the summaries in the Peru collection; or all the summaries in all collections relating to the theme of 'migration'; or all the summaries that relate both to Peru and the theme of migration. Sample themes include: changes in the environment; relations with lowland people; gender; the impact of resource extraction; traditional customs.

INFODOC online is a Documentation Center for grassroots development leaders. Documents are strictly selected among hundreds to facilitate access to action orientated information. It consists of a data Bank of development tools that includes dossiers, methodological and pedagogical tools, management methods, case studies, addresses and references. Users pay an online subscription fee and receive a personal access code that allows them to read and print documents. The documentation centre cover most areas of development work, including Culture, Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Participation, Social Development

The Factus database can be seen as the vertebral axis of all the research programmes produced by The Observatory, insofar as it provides a global frame of reference for the field of study. Factus (Data-base for resources and urban and regional European cultural policies) is a structural programme inside the INTERARTS research activities which serves as a frame of reference for all the other programmes originating with the Foundation. In this sense, it has to do with a long-term project, which has as its objective the application, relating, analysis and diffusion of information about the resources and regional and urban cultural policies of cities and regions across Europe. The programme was born in 1996 with the intention of its becoming a pan-European network of cities and regions, by means of which the practices and development strategies of each of the cities and regions consulted could be analysed. The compilation of data from these areas was made on the basis of an extensive questionnaire designed by INTERARTS. The principal objectives of Factus could be summarized under the following points: to locate good practices and successful strategies for urban and regional cultural development; to promote co-operation between the Departments of Culture of European cities and regions; to construct a useful instrument for taking decisions on cultural matters; to offer basic information and basic indicators for comparison by researchers in the field.