Building capacity through the Internet: lessons learnt from the Reviews of Health Promotion & Education Online.

From 2000 to 2008, the International Union for Health Promotion and Health Education transformed the Internet Journal of Health Promotion it had inherited into an innovative electronic multilingual capacity building experiment, the Reviews of Health Promotion & Education Online <http://rhpeo.net/index2.html>. Using a variety of sources (content analysis of the papers, site consultation statistics, users' survey), this paper analyzes reflexively the strengths and weaknesses of this experiment that was replaced in October 2009 by an Internet forum: Views on Health Promotion Online <http://vhpo.net>.