information-habitat.net/interven information habitat: where information lives Interventions of Information Habitat at the United Nations (as International Synergy Institute until 1995.05) Information Technology, Public Participation & Global Agreements http://information-habitat.net/socdev/ngo10.htm 1998.02, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Statement submitted to the Commission on Social Development on the critical need and opportunity to develop virtual structures for public participation to complement conventional and traditional structures, with particular reference to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the threats the MAI poses to social development goals, and the need for its reconciliation with the global agreements from Rio to Istanbul.

Information Ecology: NGO Recommendations for Earth Summit II http://information-habitat.net/csd-97/ie.htm 1997.06, CSD/NGO Steering Committee, Information Ecology Caucus, New York, NY. A call for a major commitment to analyze and explore the opportunities and implications of the rapidly evolving "information and communication ecosystem" and to identify critical information ecology issues relating to sustainability; also a call for the design and establishment of, and support for participatory enabling environments within which information and communications technologies, systems and processes - including traditional and non-electronic forms - can facilitate a transition to more open, equitable and sustainable communities and society.

Innovative Ideas and Procedures for Interactions between NGOs and the U.N. http://information-habitat.net/interven/ih-9704.htm 1997.04, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Statement of Information Habitat at the NGO Consultation on Increasing Access to the UN General Assembly and its Committees and all areas of the work of the UN. Recommendations for an inclusive approach to NGO participation based on information ecology, methodology, and on Government/NGO partnership.

The application of modern information and communication technology to improve practical arrangements in support of strengthened participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations http://information-habitat.net/interven/app9701.htm 1997.01, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Recommendations for use of information technology to strengthen participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including enhanced access to United Nations documents, the Daily Journal and press releases by NGOs in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council.

Methodology for the General Assembly to examine the question of the participation of NGOs in all areas of the work of the United Nations http://information-habitat.net/interven/is-9611.htm 1996.12, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Speaking notes for Information Habitat at the Informal Soundings on ECOSOC Decision 1996/297. Recommendations, inter alia, on an inclusive approach to participation of NGOs, on the value of systematic use of information and communication technology, and on examination of innovative participation processes used in the Habitat II conference.

Habitat Online Partnership Plan of Action http://www.unhabitat.org/ho-ppa 1996.03, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Plan for an integrated online framework to support the role of partners in the implementation of and follow-up to the Habitat Agenda through the systematic use of electronic communications to strengthen cooperation between partners; capacity-building initiative in the use of information technology for Habitat partners. The Partnership Plan of Action has been semi-formally incorporated into the Habitat follow up plans by UNCHS (Habitat).

Utilization of information and communication technology in support of broad-based participation and access to information http://information-habitat.net/interven/oewg9505.htm 1995.05, International Synergy Institute, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Statement submitted by the International Synergy Institute at the Second Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for the systematic application of information and communication technology in support of arrangements for broader and more timely access to UN documents and for consultation with non-governmental organizations.

Strengthening NGO Participation at the United Nations http://information-habitat.net/interven/oewg9411.htm 1994.11, International Synergy Institute, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Statement submitted at the Inter-sessional Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for strengthening NGO participation at the UN, including the creative application of information and communication technology in support of systematic arrangements for broader and more timely access to UN documents and the establishment of an Information and Communication Center for compilation and dissemination of UN documents.

The Commission on Sustainable Development & The World Summit on Social Development Gophers gopher://gopher.un.org/00/esc/cn17/overview/gop-guid 1994.10, Information Support Unit, UN DPCSD, Pollard, Robert (ed), New York, NY. The initial online compilation of documents from the Commission on Sustainable Development and the World Summit on Social Development, including a guide to use of the gopher and an organized listing of the available documents.

Strengthening Procedures for Consultation http://information-habitat.net/interven/oewg9406.htm 1994.06, International Synergy Institute, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Statement submitted at the First Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations for consistency of procedures for consultation, on the role on national non-governmental organizations, practical arrangements, provisions for timely and effective access to documents, and modalities for consultation.

Some Critical Issues for the NGO Review http://information-habitat.net/interven/critical.htm 1994.06, International Synergy Institute, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Identification of key areas that had been addressed by the Open-Ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations.

Key Issues for the Open-ended Working Group on the Review of Arrangements for Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations http://information-habitat.net/interven/ngoadhoc.htm 1994.06, Ad Hoc Committee of NGOs, Pollard, Robert (ed), New York, NY. Identification of some of the priority concerns for NGOs from among those that were addressed during the First Session of the Open-Ended Working Group

Dissemination of this Working Group's Papers in Electronic Format: Intervention of International Synergy Institute http://information-habitat.net/interven/csdis-94.htm 1994.02, International Synergy Institute, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Intervention at the Intersessional Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Technology Transfer and Cooperation of the Commission on Sustainable Development noting the benefits of electronic dissemination of the documents before the Working Group as well as the broader role of strengthening information infrastructure in support of sustainable development.

Applying Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability http://information-habitat.net/interven/csd-93.htm 1993.06, International Synergy Institute, Pollard, Robert, New York, NY. Intervention at the first session of the Commission on Sustainable Development recommending, inter alia, that procedures be adopted requesting all documents submitted to the Commission be also provided in electronic format.

On The Line: Interactive Preparations for the First Earth Summit. A Project Proposal http://information-habitat.net/docs/otl-prop.htm 1991.04, On The Line, Pollard, Robert & Leland, Bill, Baltimore & San Francisco. Successful proposal for a project of Econet / Institute of Global COmmunications -- funded by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- with a conceptual framework and overview of methodology for On The Line, a publication to facilitate interactive preparation for the Earth Summit (UNCED), and designed for global electronic distribution as a typeset microcomputer document.

Computer Communications & the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Alternative Technology for Communication and Participation by Non-government Organizations: A Concise Guide http://information-habitat.net/docs/cc-unced.htm 1990.08, IPHAE & Information Habitat, Goree, Langston James VI & Pollard, Robert, Nairobi and Baltimore. A brief overview of UNCED-related computer communications, the Concise Guide was produced for the first PrepCom meeting, and widely distributed by the UNCED Secretariat.

United Nations Conference on Environment & Development: Information, Public Participation & Comunication System: A Preliminary Proposal & Discussion of the Proposal http://information-habitat.net/docs/ippcs.htm 1990.06, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives, Pollard, Robert et al, Baltimore. Discussion of NGO communication and information needs as they relate to effective participation in the process of preparing for the 1992 UNCED; recommendations for design and structuring on-line electronic conferences to facilitate communications and access to information.