For a period of several years before the International Development Research Council ceased to exist, the organization maintained a directory of associate members online.

The apparent purpose of the directory was to give active members of IDRC easy access on the Web to associates who were their resource and service providers.

As IDRC Members on the Web* it was one of the first directories of site selection, real estate and economic development contacts to be offered online as a free-access resource.

The last issue of the IDRC membership directory was used to update a couple of thousand records to the global directory of contacts first published online by The Network in 1997. The directory was offered as open-access and has remained so ever since.

Bob Glover, the founder of The Network (page up), salvaged and reproduced his record from IDRC Members on the Web. His purpose in doing so was to keep the spirit of the association's focus on networking alive, as reflected in the following IDRC statement:

Perhaps the most important networking is that which is done on a person-to-person basis between individuals with special skills and experience ...

*Members on the Web was published as a reference without any attention given to up-dating after 1998. The link, Leaders in Development, once broken, wasn't fixed. Members on the Web remained published online until finally removed in 2006.

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