1. Why? The NFU website is here to:

• provide information on development research to the general public and to NFU-members in particular.
• provide links to relevant events, publications and to our sister organisations.
• provide a tool for discussing development research at blogs and forums.
• manage information about NFU members, viz. addresses and membership fees.

A website is never better than the content, thus we encourage all NFU members to contribute by keeping information flowing.

2. How to? In order to be more than a passive visitor to nfuf.no you need to

• Register on the website (name, email, username and password) and then activate your registration by clicking on a link in a response-email. Then you are forwarded to
• Select Your NFU-membership. We are using a web-shop to handle this. Note: invoices and payments are (still) organised separately: please follow instructions in the response-emails, or contact our Treasurer.
• Start writing on Forums and Blogs. Good luck!
• Write more? - please use contact us (below) to submit additional news and information, or to contribute as editor.

3. Next steps? Running a website is a continuous undertaking, and we have started on a template advertising for Lyon. It will, unfortunately, take some time to clean it up, to get rid of all Lyon- and latin-based dummy-texts, and to put built-in functions into action. Also in this process, we anticipate that some information will move around at bit, and that details of some direct web-addresses may change.

This require input and assistance from our NFU-members on needs, design, organisation and on how we may use our new infromation tool in the best possible manner.

4. The technicalities? The new NFU website is powered by the cms-system eZpublish. eZpublish is a free system developed in Norway.