UNITED NATIONS ADVANCES GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH WORLD OF INTERNET
Press Release
ENV/DEV/342
UNITED NATIONS ADVANCES GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH WORLD OF INTERNET
19951122 NEW YORK, 22 November (DPCSD) -- A new line of information services on the Internet was introduced by the United Nations Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development (DPCSD) on 24 October to coincide with the General Assembly discussion during its fiftieth session on An Agenda for Development into the next century.The DPCSD Web site will provide a framework for guiding researchers in international economic and social development through the broad substantive work of the United Nations, including policy development and coordination, sustainable development, social policy, advancement of women, combating desertification and coordination of policies and programmes for the development of Africa and least developed countries.
The new DPCSD Web site builds on and integrates earlier Web initiatives of the secretariats of the Social Summit, Fourth World Conference on Women, and Climate Change and Desertification Conventions, and fully exploits the extensive online document collection developed and maintained by DPCSD on the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) gopher server over the past year. Reports of proceedings with hypertext links, parliamentary documentation, official statements, public information material, and customized links to other resources constitute the basic service, which will be continually expanded and updated to bring daily, unfiltered updates of relevant United Nations proceedings to the world.
With this initiative, the DPCSD is leading the way for others in the United Nations Secretariat in the promotion of "participatory development". Through a combination of World Wide Web, Internet gopher and electronic mail access, the DPCSD takes the intergovernmental negotiating process in the economic and social fields directly to the desktops of Member States, as well as other international organizations, non-governmental organizations, academia and the public-at-large. The electronic mail link will be especially useful to developing countries where full Internet connectivity is still relatively scarce and expensive.
The address of the DPCSD home page is http://www.un.org/DPCSD. The DPCSD gopher can be found on gopher.undp.org. Select "United Nations Secretariat", then "Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development". Users without direct Internet access can send e-mail to agora@www.undp.org with http://www.un.org/DPCSD as the message text. A copy of the DPCSD home page is forwarded to the user with a help message on retrieving further Web and gopher material through electronic mail.
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