Off the Shelf

The Governance Village Library will be introduced on Friday October 26th during CIGI's annual conference. Governance Village is the first online knowledge network that brings Canadian researchers, policymakers, and practitioners together in an effort to establish and share proven good governance practices in international development.

The library is the knowledge base of the network and centres around five themes: Democratic Development, Human Rights and Development, Peace and Security, Capacity Building, and Rule of Law. It contains thousands of free, open-access documents from contributing partner organizations which focus on international development and governance issues. By having documents freely accessible around the world, Governance Village hopes to bring together people from different backgrounds and different continents in one central place for knowledge sharing. The challenges we face when discussing development concerns are vast and transcend borders. Therefore, they require practical, long-term solutions. The goal of Governance Village is to provide a central place where people can obtain the information needed to be able to collaborate and bring forth global change.