Dear Members, World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The World Environment Day theme selected for 2003 is Water?Two Billion People are Dying for It! The theme calls on each of us to help safeguard the most precious resource of life on our planet?water. This theme has been chosen to support the United Nations International Year of Freshwater, 2003 and World Water Day (22 March). The main international celebrations of World Environment Day 2003 will be held in Beirut, the first time in the Arab world. On this occasion we would like to focus your attention on the role of ICTs in national and international efforts to assure environmental sustainability and the broader issue of the impact of ICTs on the environment. This is related to one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and we are offering this special on ICT & Environment as part of the series on ICT & MDGs. The issue of ICT & Environment is a complex and multifaceted one. ICT can play both positive and negative roles in environmental sustainability. This feature aims to show that the positive impact of ICT on the environment is great and by far outweighs its potentially negative impact. * Visit the DG special feature "ICT and Environment: Friends or Foes" at: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/environment Featuring: * ICT and Ensuring Environmental Sustainability (essay by John Daly, see also a review by Thomas Ruddy) * Environment and ICT Working Group (article by Thomas Ruddy) * Discussion Forum: ICT and environment: are they friends or foes? What are the good examples of positive role that ICTs can play in assuring environmental sustainability? What are the examples of a negative impact? What are the key case studies of both? Share your opinion: http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/bboard/message?message_id=569 770&forum_id=225450&mode=t This special also provides an extensive collection of resources that analyze in greater detail some of the issues mentioned above as well as other related issues like ICT for Water Resources Management, Computer Recycling, ICT & Energy, etc. * Take a look and contribute to our emerging knowledge base on ICT for Environment at: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/browser/?keyword_list=569747 * See also related sections on: * ICT & Solar Power at: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/browser/?keyword_list=509578 * Free Computers, Software and Services: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/browser/?keyword_list=409428 * and on Geographic Information Systems: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/browser/?keyword_list=227306 Feel free to contribute an article or paper on any of these issues! * Environment on the Gateway: The DG Portal provides a number of resorces on environment: NGOs and the World Environment Day, The Connection Between Poverty and the Environment, Iraq Recovery: Environment, Water Resources Management - World Environment Day, Afghanistan Reconstruction: Environment & Water Resources, Innovations for Development: Environment highlight, Environment Projects on AiDA, Environment Tender Opportunities on dgMarket, Environmental Law etc. See them all at: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/environment * Upcoming DG ICT4D Specials: Call for Contributions We are looking forward to your contributions to our upcoming specials under preparation: Digital Divide: Improving Internet Access in Developing Countries, ICT in South Asia, Open Source for Development, ICT & Labor, ICT & Youth. Feel free to contribute relevant articles, papers and links by email or at: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/dg-contribute * Please see also recent contributions to our previous specials: ICT, Poverty & Growth: ICT and Poverty: The San Bushmen (article by Earl Mardle) http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=571778 ICT, Governance & Transparency: Improving the transparency, quality and effectiveness of pro-poor public services using the ICTs: An attempt by Transparency International (paper by Basheerhamad Shadrach and Lilian Ekeanyanwu) http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/admin/blob?pid=4891 * See and contribute to some of our previous special features: Using ICT to Improve Governance & Transparency: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT/transparency Leadership & Innovation for a Connected World: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/leadership ICT for Poverty Reduction & Economic Growth: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/poverty Community Telecenters: Assuring Impact & Sustainability: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/telecenters Others: http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=358401 * Invitation to a Development Gateway seminar (if you are in Washington, DC): ICT Leadership, its Impact on Development and the Road Ahead presented by Dr. Carlos P. Braga (Director, Informatics Program, World Bank), Dr. John Daly (Development Gateway Foundation), Dr. Ernest Wilson (University of Maryland). Time & Venue: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:15-12:30pm Room I-1-200 (1850 I Street NW Washington DC) Read background papers at: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/leadership * For other upcoming ICT4D events click here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/calendar/all * For latest ICT4D news click here: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/news Thank you! Oleg Petrov, Rafael Hernandez, John Daly and Ramin Aliyev Editors, ICT for Development on Development Gateway Email: ict@developmentgateway.org Web: http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict ========== HURIDOCS-Tech listserv ========== Send mail intended for the list to <huridocs-tech@hrea.org>. 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