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Role: Coordinator Conceived, developed and implemented a comprehensive strategy for exchange of, and access to, information among partners in preparation for the 1996 Habitat II Conference; managed and moderated electronic mailing lists for Habitat II participants and for related NGO Committees and networks; generated directories of NGO participants; established and maintained a web site for Habitat II that was recognized as the official conference site; developed structured web site for the Habitat Agenda and for follow-up to the agreements reached by U.N. Member States.	New York, NY 1996.03-
Documents
Habitat II: Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements Official web site for documents and information for the preparation for and follow up to the Habitat Agenda. The site included links to all major partner initiatives with an online presence, the agreements of the 1976 Habitat Conference in Vancouver, a compilation of UN documents on Housing as a Human Right, and all official documents available in electronic format in English, French and Spanish.	New York 1996.01
Habitat Online Partnership Plan of Action 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 was semi-formally incorporated into the Habitat follow up plans by UNCHS (Habitat) however the incorporation was lost when the unhabitat.org domain was "hijacked" and not restored when UN Habitat subsequently acquired the domain.	New York 1996.03
Habitat II Online: Invitation to a Journey Statement at 1996 Earth Day celebration at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, extending an invitation to participate in a journey - to Istanbul and beyond; a journey of recommitment to the principles and values of Earth Day; a journey of discovery and exploration of new ways and tools with which we can work together in fulfilling the vision of Earth Day. information-habitat.net/journey/	New York 1996.03
Habitat II Online: An Ecological Design Process An overview of ecological design considerations in the development of the Habitat II Online initiative to enable coherent, intelligent response to the agenda of the Habitat II conference incorporating an ecology of information, an ecology of education, and an ecology of participation. information-habitat.net/h2o/design.htm	New York 1996.05
The Habitat Agenda Publication and dissemination - via e-mail, web site and on diskette - of the Habitat Agenda in English, French and Spanish. The Habitat Agenda was published on the World Wide Web and via electronic mailing lists on the same day the document was approved. www.un-documents.net/hab-ag.htm	Istanbul 1996.06
Towards a Curriculum in Information Ecology: Partnership, Informatics and Participation A compilation of documents and images relating to the development of a curriculum in Information Ecology in cooperation with the Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics and Participation University College, London information-habitat.net/docs/dpu-docs.htm	New York 2002.03
Electronic mailing lists
[socdev] - NGO Committee on Social Development Had served as the primary electronic mailing list for the NGO Committee on Social Development. Currently only occasional messages. Active. To subscribe to [socdev], send an email message to majordomo@undp.org with the following one-line message: subscribe socdev-L	1997.12-
[pip] - Partnership, Informatics and Participation To subscribe to [pip], send an email message to majordomo@undp.org with the following one-line message: subscribe pip-L	1997.10-
[ngochs] - NGO Committee on Human Settlements An electronic mailing list for members of the NGO Committee on Human Settlements in the context of follow up to the Habitat Agenda. Inactive.	1997.03-
[ngocsd] - NGO Committee on Sustainable Development An electronic mailing list for the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development. Inactive.	1997.02-
[habifem] - Huairou Commission - Women, Homes and Communities Supercoalition [habifem] served as the primary electronic mailing list for members and participants in the Women, Homes and Communities Supercoalition that subsequently evolved into the Huairou Commission. Inactive.	1997.01-
[partners] - Habitat Partners Network The principal electronic mailing list for Non-Governmental Organizations engaged in monitoring, implementation and follow up to the Habitat Agenda agreed to at the June 1996 Habitat II Conference in Istanbul. Active. To subscribe to [partners], send an email message to majordomo@undp.org with the following one-line message: subscribe h2o-L	1996.12-
[peace] - Habitat Peace Caucus / Peace Odyssey 2001 An electronic mailing list for the Habitat Peace Caucus and Peace Odyssey 2001, superceded by the *[peace-caucus-un]>/p> mailing list. Inactive.*	1996.05-2001.04
[h2oplan] - Habitat II Online planning group A lightly used electronic mailing list for some key participants involvd in the design and planning of the Habitat II Online process for preparation and follow up to the June 1996 Habitat II Conference in Istanbul. Inactive.	1996.01-1997.06
[ifg-habitat] - International NGO Facilitating Group for Habitat II The electronic mailing list for the International NGO Facilitating Group for Habitat II and for NGOs preparing for participation in Habitat II - the Second UN Conference on Human Settlements - in Istanbul in June 1996. Inactive.	1995.05-1997.04
[habitat2] - Habitat II List Inactive.	1995.04-1998.12
Databases
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
HAB2-NGO - NGOs Accredited to Habitat II Accreditation and participation relational database for NGOs participating in the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and in the meetings of the Preparatory Committees for the conference.	New York, NY 1995.09
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
INTERNET - Networked knowledge and information The Internet database is the successor to the NGOS@UN database, incorporating a significant number of new data files - now totalling 99, including the water-body oriented geographic data structure that were developed in preparation for Y2K contingency planning, and a set of data files for Internet domain names, the registration of which was a major focus of activity in the year 2000, and that are central components in the design of Gaia University and in an evolving proof of the Gaia Mind hypothesis.	Brooklyn, NY 2000.06
COLOURS - Light & Colour Cube Engine Database engine of light and colour for the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, and of more than a thousand images based on the Cubes. COLOURS was used to generate the set of images of the faces of the Light and Colour Cubes, as well as to generate many sets of web pages with images based on the cubes.	Brooklyn, NY 2000.09
ECOLOGY - Gaia University network of knowledge, information ecology database ECOLOGY was the successor to the INTERNET database, renamed to focus attention on its ecological properties, and incorporating minor revisions and updates to its structure, in addition to the conceptual shift associated with the change of name.	Brooklyn, NY 2000.11
HABITAT3 - Habitat Three An evolution from the ECOLOGY database, Habitat Three is conceived of both as a preliminary organizing database for an anticipated Habitat III Conference to be held in 2016, and as a prototype digital habitat for the Third Millennium. The HABITAT3 database serves as the primary database of Information Habitat and remains one of the principle vehicles for the development of the DataPerfect Digital Engine that has become a central focus of Information Habitat: Where Information Lives.	Brooklyn, NY 2001.03
LIGHT - Let there be Light The success to the COLOURS database, LIGHT is evolving as an engine to generate light - through the generation of sets of web pages - for images based on the Light and Colour Cubes, and for sets of digital or digitized photos - and the integration of the images with text, documents, web sites, and relevant links.	New York, NY 2003.01
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