Fourth Board meeting Held in Yerevan, Armenia, November 2005

Just prior to ISSA’s 7th Annual Conference, the Web Publishing Board met to review 27 stories being considered for the Reading Corner, and to discuss ways to improve the usefulness of the Reading Corner for Step by Step NGOs.

The Board approved five new stories by authors from Albania, Haiti, Hungary, Mongolia, and Moldova. The new stories will be posted on the Reading Corner shortly for countries to translate. In addition, ten stories were considered worthy of additional help from mentors with the hope that the revised stories will be resubmitted for a second review at the next Board meeting. These ten stories come from eight countries: Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Haiti, Mongolia and Romania.

Illustrators are needed for the new stories.

Books with a strong cultural content will be of particular interest in the selection of future stories.

The Board agreed to create a mechanism for SbS web publishing coordinators to share their experiences and to allow a free exchange of ideas. A list serve will be created for this purpose. The Board also authorized the creation of a matrix of themes that should simplify the identification of appropriate books for use in the different SbS core initiatives.