BoD/PEN PROCESS

For every question relavent to this process it is possible to answer them quickly, or well, but not both.

For example, in answering "does the PEN fullfil the PERC mandate?" one could:


 * look at the PENs content and determine whether the content is educational with respect to peace and environment issues, whether it is getting out to the community, etc or


 * monitor pick up rates at sites, interview readers about how much they read, sample members and readers to determine how much they actually learn,

1) Does the PEN contribute to the Mandate?

a) Educate the public b) Support local groups c) Teach effective skills

Recommend: Given

2) What is the net contribution of the PEN (direct and indirect) Fig 1

Recommend: Given

3) Relevant current trends internal/external

a) Internal - volunteer demographic

b) External
 * trend fatigue (details change, pattern the same)
 * Cooption by mass media, (embedded)
 * Illusion of informed by internet

Analyse in 4 weeks

4) How to improve contribution of the PEN

PEN itself

i) size ii) frequency iii) Look/Format iv) Style/Tone

PERC in general

i) distribution ii) PERC readership iii)

Recommend: Analyse in 8 weeks

FIG 1.