VanceNet offers its users a number of features to assist them in building constructive networks. By employing these tools, users can meet each other, sustain contact, share knowledge and collaborate on projects both within and across borders. Some of these features include:

 
Weblog

VanceNet’s weblog allows its users to be permanently updated on issues and initiatives related to access to justice throughout the globe. Members of the Vancenet community can use this tool to inform others about important topics and news events that affect the legal profession and access to justice as well as provide their own assessment of these topics. Vancenet’s administrator regularly issues invitations to advocates from different countries to become guest bloggers or to submit occasional postings that might be of interest to the Vancenet community.

 
Groups

VanceNet also hosts discussion groups that allow users to communicate and share knowledge and expertise through public and private web-based dialogues. Users can form public discussion groups around questions or topics of their choice; any member of the Vancenet community can then participate in these discussions. Vancenet’s technological platform also allows its users to have private groups when members of the community need to work on sensitive issues in collaboration with a limited number of Vancenet’s users. Whether they are seeking an open dialogue or a space for private discussion, Vancenet’s discussion groups provides its users with an easy, friendly, fast and effective way to work in collaboration with other members of the community.

 
Members Directory

VanceNet’s Directory will provide its users with contact information for a wide range of private and public organizations, lawyers and advocates of access to justice throughout the world. This feature will make it easier for access to justice advocates to find partners within and across borders.