The NIGD (Network Institute For Global Democratization) web portal was designed and built to both help communicate information about global democratization and related subjects and to serve as an area to allow others to inter-communicate with each other.

This site was built and implemented by the NIGD web team, who are all volunteers, using Open source technology and hosted by Finland’s (and possibly the worlds) first Cooperative social internet service provider katto-meny  "the Knot in the cable" www.kaapeli.fi   who also utilize Open source technology.

This site was built using Plone  an excellent content management /web portal system which uses Zope, an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets and portals as its "backbone" and released under the GNU GPL license.


The NIGD web team currently consists of (In alphabetical order)

Katarina Sehm Patomäki, NIGD executive secretary

Ruby van der Wekken, NIGD WSF coordinator

Mikael Böök, NIGD project supervisor


The Portal was designed as a collaborative effort and with ideas and  contributions from the NIGD membership, the NIGD web portal is an ongoing project.


Many thanks to Plone and its founders, Alan Runyan and Alexander Limi , and for there helpful comments.

The NIGD Web Team