Activities
ISN’s current web-based, information-providing activities and services can be divided into five main categories.
- Digital Library – ISN’s Digital Library began as a repository of declassified Cold War documents and conference proceedings relevant to PfP countries. It now contains over 40,000 downloadable documents provided by 300+ partner organizations over the years. The documents include journal articles, books, working papers and government reports, as well as a directory of international organizations, NGOs, research institutes and other institutions that provide free information on international relations.
- Current IR- and Security-Related Issues and Affairs – The ISN website offers data, analyses, commentaries, podcasts (and more) on these issues.
- Communities and Partners – ISN provides an online knowledge network of partner institutions and affiliates, consisting of international organizations (IOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), state ministries, think tanks, universities and research institutes.
- E-learning – ISN has a small E-learning and advanced distributed learning team that works with NATO PfP to provide defense and security sector training via free online courses, downloadable web-learning technologies and software components such as ILIAS LSM, as well as consulting services for the production of online learning materials.
- ISN Blog – Blogging activity on this site focuses on international relations- and security-centered topics, along with discussions on information technologies, web-learning developments and more.
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