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Role: Member Compilation of information and documents relating to the Commission in electronic format and dissemination on diskette and online. Set up and maintained membership database, electronic mailing lists and world wide web site for the Committee to strengthen communications and access to information among non-governmental organizations participating in the Commission on Sustainable Development. Hosted initial office for the Northern Clearinghouse and provided supervision and technical support. Established Information Ecology Caucus and has served as its Northern Chair. habitat.igc.org/csdngo	New York, NY 1993.05-2001.05
Documents
Applying Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability 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. information-habitat.net/interven/csd-93.htm	New York 1993.06
Dissemination of this Working Group's Papers in Electronic Format: Intervention of International Synergy Institute 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. information-habitat.net/interven/csdis-94.htm	New York 1994.02
Agenda 21, Other UNCED Agreements and the NGO Alternative Treaties The first - and for a long time, the only - web-based version of Agenda 21 and the other agreements of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the Earth Summit - held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, including the NGO Alternative Treaties. www.un-documents.net/agenda21/index.htm	New York 1995.08
Non-Governmental Organizations at the Commission for Sustainable Development Compilation of information resources and documents in support of participation by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development and preparations for Earth Summit II. The site highlighted the consensus NGO document "Toward Earth Summit Two: NGO Recommendations for Commitments and Action" which included a key section on Information Ecology. The NGO Steering Committee now maintains its own web site - http://www.csdngo.org/csdngo information-habitat.net/ngocsd/	New York 1997.03
Towards Earth Summit II: Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II Consensus document presenting NGO recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II, the five year review of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. information-habitat.net/csdngo/1997/es2ngo1.html	New York 1997.06
Y2K Countdown Digital Date Clock Presentation of the basis for the use of the Digital Date Clock - with yyyy.mm.dd format - as the ideal solution for a universal format for recording dates of transactions. pdf file from an HTML page.	Brooklyn 1999.10
Electronic mailing lists
[csdsteer] - CSD/NGO Steering Committee Members The principal elecronic mailing list for the members of the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development. Inactive.	1997.08-2001.06
[csdgen] - NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development The primary electronic mailing list for the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development. Active. To subscribe to [csdgen], send an email message to majordomo@undp.org with the following one-line message: subscribe csdgen	1997.01-
Databases
TREATIES - Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, etc. Full text searchable database of all the Rio Agreements: Agenda 21, Rio Declaration, Biodiversity & Climate Conventions, Forest Principles, Alternative Treaties and Women's Action Agenda 21. TREATIES was used to generate the first version of Agenda 21 to be published in HTML format on the World Wide Web, in June 1995. Based on recent revisions, TREATIES is able to generate an interlinked set of web pages with the identification of all the occurrences in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration of selected words and phrases - presently for up to three words or phrases.	Millbrook, UK 1993.01
CSD - Commission on Sustainable Development Accredited and participating NGOs at the First Session of the Commission for Sustainable Development, 1st PrepCom of the Global Conference on Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, and 2nd & 3rd Sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee for a Convention to Combat Desertification and the Effects of Drought.	New York, NY 1993.06
ACCENT - Accent variations A database of alternative character sets and their correspondences, ACCENT allows easy lookup of alternative representation of non-ASCII characters used under different protocols - e.g. ASCII, ANSI/Windows, HTML-N, HTML-A, IBASCII, etc. ACCENT can generate conversion files to be used in conjunction with CNV-41, a simple DOS-based program - made available on line and by e-mail request - that can convert between any two sets of character representations.	New York, NY 1994.01
INFOHAB - Information Habitat: Where Information Lives The initial database for Information Habitat: Where Information Lives; succeeded by the NGOS@UN database. During the active life of INFOHAB, it was the locus of major growth in its structure and contents, and was used to manage, inter alia, databases for key NGO Committees - on Human Settlements, Social Development, Sustainable Development, the NGO Steering Committee to the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, and the preliminary database for participants in preparations for the Millennium Forum.	New York, NY 1995.05
CSDNGO - NGO Steering Committee for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development Database for the Coordinator of the Northern Clearinghouse for the NGO Steering Committee for maintenance of information on Steering Committee members and participants, and membership in Caucuses of the Steering Committee.	New York, NY 1996.12
NGOS@UN - ngos@un - Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations NGOS@UN was designed as a catalyst for a cooperative information ecology framework to work with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in response to a request from the Economic and Social Council to make every effort to enhance and streamline, as appropriate, practical arrangements to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the United Nations - and specifically to make effective use of database technology. NGOS@UN grew out of the INFOHAB database, and integrated extensive information - from disparate sources - of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to the Global Conferences of the 1990s. As it developed, NGOS@UN grew significantly in size and structure incorporating major new sections, including record of NGOs in the process of seeking accreditation with ECOSOC, historical data on NGO accreditation, and information on official United Nations documents pertaining to NGO Accreditation and the work of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations.	Brooklyn, NY 1999.02
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