OneWorld Network

OneWorld was conceived by Peter Armstrong and Anuradha Vittachi in 1994. They launched its portal, www.oneworld.net, in London on 24 January 1995 - innovating the world's first portal on the internet on global justice.

OneWorld's explosive growth around the world meant that its founders decentralized the organisation into a global participatory media network, the OneWorld Network (OWN), on 10 December 1999.

The network currently consists of 13 centres, based in:

Italy - http://unimondo.oneworld.net/

Indonesia - http://satudunia.oneworld.net/

Finland - http://fi.oneworld.net/

Netherlands - http://www.oneworld.nl/

Costa Rica - http://amlat.oneworld.net/

Austria - http://www.oneworld.at

India - http://southasia.oneworld.net

US - http://us.oneworld.net/

South East Europe - http://see.oneworld.net

Canada - http://www.oneworld.ca/

Spain - http://www.canalsolidario.org

Zambia - http://africa.oneworld.net

UK - http://uk.oneworld.net/

It is governed by a global charity - the OneWorld International Foundation (OWIF)

On 1 April 2005, 10 years after the launch of OneWorld, its founders incorporated a new OneWorld centre in the UK as a not-for profit company ("limited by guarantee"). Its team has been drawn from a range of OneWorld activities.

Innovation is OneWorld UK's key contribution to OWN - innovating user-generated platforms for NGO and citizen-led social change. Over the past 13 years, members of this team have produced most of the OneWorld Network's major innovations, including:

the world's first global justice portal, OneWorld.net (1994-5)

civil society's first spider and search system

using mobile phones for sending campaign video clips at the G8 Summit (2005), and a query service for Indian farmers

the Open Knowledge Network (OKN)

prototype podcasts - OneWorld Radio (1996)

prototype YouTube for global justice - OWTV (2001)