Leader |
Country |
Contact |
Issues |
Grigori Abramia File |
Georgia
|
geocer@mmc.net.ge
http://www.georgia-gateway.org/NGOinGeorgia/WB/001.htm |
1, 4, 7, 8, 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, 36, and 47 |
Vassily A. Agaphonoff File
|
Russia |
rkrostov@don.sitek.net |
1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 22, 25, 26, 28, 33, 40, 49, 53 |
William M. Alexander File
|
U.S.A.
|
walexand@calpoly.edu
www.jadski.com/kerala
|
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10,18, 20, 21, 25, 28, 33, 35, 39, 40, 46, 48, 49, 50, 52, 54, and 55 |
Mark Anielski File
|
Canada |
www.pembina.org
anielski@ualberta.ca
|
4, 7, 8, 11, 22, 24, 25, 28, 32, 36, 40, 47, 53, 54, and 55 |
USAKI
Ayato File |
Japan |
asuka@sal.tohoku.ac.jp |
1,
25, and 28 |
Khalid Aziz and Otto N. Miller File
|
U.S.A. |
aziz@pangea.Stanford.EDU |
1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 33, 36, 40, 52 |
Allan E. Barsky, Bill Diepeveen, Maureen Wilson, Karen Hanna File
|
Canada |
barsky@ucalgary.ca
Bill.Diepeveen@ma.gov.ab.ca
mwilson@ucalgary.ca
|
2, 7, 8, 9, 22, 24, 28, 33, 38, 40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, and 55 |
Brad Bass File
|
Canada |
Brad.Bass@ec.gc.ca
brad.bass@utoronto.ca
http://www.tor.ec.gc.ca/earg |
1, 9, 11, 25, 26, 28, 36, 47, 53, and 55 |
Jennifer
Beale File |
Canada |
www.web.net/~tccr
tccrsoc@web.net |
3,
4, 5, 7, 17, 21, 27, 28, 36, and 40 |
Vincenzo Bentivegna File |
Italy
|
DPMPE@CESIT1.UNIFI.IT
vincenzo.bentivegna@cesit1.unifi.it |
54, 4, 9, 26, 28, 35, 36, 49 and 40 |
Andrzej
Bobiec File |
Poland |
pecheneg@ic.kharkov.ua
www.topb.most.org.pl |
1,
25, 26, 28, and 51 |
Alexander S. Bogolyubov
File
|
Russia |
abogol@stk.mmtel.ru
http://www.ilstu.edu/~aggubin/buklet_eng.htm |
1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 25, 26,
28, 34, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 53, 54, and 55
|
Klaus
Bosselmann File |
New
Zealand |
k.bosselmann@auckland.ac.nz
www.law.auckland.ac.nz/cel/nzcel.html |
4,
5, 15, 26, 28, 34 and 47 |
John
M. Bunzl File |
United
Kingdom |
www.simpol.org
inf@simpol.org
jbunzl@simpol.org |
3,
7, 8, 19, 22, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 40 and 46 |
Thorkil Casse and Fabiana Issler File |
Denmark |
tca@cdr.dk
cdr@cdr.dk
fabiana.issler@undp.org
http://www.cdr.dk |
1,
3, 4, 7, 9, 15, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 35, 39, 40, 46, 47, 49, 54, and 55 |
Ameer
H. Chowdhury File |
Bangladesh |
iedsfoeb@accesstel.net |
1,
4, 9, 26, 28, 47, and 53 |
Jim Christiansen File
|
France |
jchris5210@aol.com |
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 15, 22, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36, 40 |
Victoria Churikova,
Ludmila Ignatenko, Vera Koveinik, Anatoly Nikitin, Sofia Nikitina,
Alexey Drouziaka, Valery Drouziaka File
|
Russia |
yupik@elrus.kamchatka.su
druz@ecoclub.nsu.ru
airport@proto.elrus.kamchatka.su
|
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 15, 25, 26, 28, 36, 47, 49, 51, and 55 |
George L. De Feis File
|
U.S.A. |
Gdefeis@amanet.org
http://www.operationenterprise.com
|
3, 7, 8, 15, 22, 25, 28, 36, 40, and 55 |
David Del Porto File
|
U.S.A. |
sustainable@aics.net
www.ecological-engineering.com
http://www.ecological-engineering.com/cofs.html |
1, 4, 7, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36, 40, and 55 |
John C. Dernbach File
|
U.S.A. |
John.C.Dernbach@law.widener.edu |
4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 25, 28, 33, 35, 36, 47, and 53 |
J. Dewulf, J. Mulder, H. Van Langenhove, H.J. van der Kooi, J. de Swaan Arons File
|
Belgium |
herman.vanlangenhove@rug.ac.be
J.mulder@stm.tudelft.nl
H.J.vanderKooi@stm.tudelft.nl
Jo.Dewulf@rug.ac.be
|
2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 53 |
Zhang
Di File |
People's
Republic of China |
Zhangdi@eyou.com
kefeng@sina.com
4sunshine@yeah.net |
4,
7, 9, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, 35, 42, 43, and 55 |
Dott. Giuseppe Di Vita
File |
Italy |
gdivita@lex.unict.it |
1, 9, 11, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, and 33 |
Michele Doncaster File
|
Canada |
micheledoncaster@hotmail.com |
25, 26, 28, 36, 41 and 55 |
Roger
Doudna File |
Scotland |
rdoudna@findhorn.org |
1,
4, 9, 11, 25, 28, 30, 33, 36, and 47 |
David
Driesen File |
USA |
ddriesen@law.syr.edu |
1,
2, 5, 24, 25, 26, 28, and 29 |
Ramkumar Bendapudi and Gerard D'Souza File
|
U.S.A |
gdsouza@wvu.edu |
1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, and 53 |
Germain
Dufour File |
Canada |
gdufour@globalcommunitywebnet.com
gdufour@globalcommunitywebnet.com
http://www.globalcommunitywebnet.com/public/gdufour/
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/globaldialogue2004
/index.htm
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/earthgov/
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/mtbenson/ |
all
Discussion Roundtables |
Louise Dunne and Frank Convery File |
Ireland |
louise.dunne@ucd.ie
http://www.ucd.ie/~envinst/envstud/
|
1, 3, 4, 7, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 35, 40, and 55 |
Jose Ferrer File |
|
FERRERJK@pdvsa.com |
2, 9, 11, 25, 28, 40, 47, and 53 |
Walter Leal Filho File |
Germany |
leal@tu-harburg.de |
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 15, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 35, 40, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, and 55 |
Karl Froschauer File
|
Canada |
froschau@sfu.ca |
1, 4, 11, 24, 26, 28, 35, 38, 54, and 55 |
Azer
Garayev File |
Azerbaijan |
aspa@azintex.com
roland_pro_99@yahoo.com |
27,
28, 30, 54, and 55 |
Anastassios Gentzoglanis File
|
Canada |
agentz@courrier.usherb.ca |
1, 4, 8, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, and 40 |
Hans W. Gottinger File |
Germany |
hg528@bingo.baynet.de
hg528@bingo-ev.de
gottih@rpi.edu
hwgott@aol.com
|
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, 35, 40, 47, 53, 54, and 55 |
John
Greenfield File |
|
Greenfield@xtra.co.nz |
11,
28, 51 and 53 |
Nikolai Grishin and Olga Tokmakova File |
Russia |
ngrishin@glasnet.ru |
1, 4, 10, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 35, 40, and 54 |
Yuriy Grynyuk File
|
Ukraine |
grinrost@forest.lviv.ua |
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 25, 26, 28, 35, 36, 40, 47, and 55 |
Steven Guilbeault File |
Canada
|
jean.guy.vaillancourt@umontreal.ca www.greenpeace.ca |
1, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 47 |
Min Guo File
|
U.S.A. |
g3131mguo@umbsky.cc.umb.edu |
1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 25, 26, 28, 33, and 36 |
Galina
Gutina File |
Russia |
goutin@fmail.ru |
26,
28, 31, 32, 35, 37, 41, 42, and 43 |
Cliff Haas, Bob Gent and David Crawford File
|
U.S.A. |
ida@darksky.org http://www.darksky.org
BobGent@aol.com
liz@darksky.org
|
1,7, 9, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 47 |
Xiaohui
Hao File |
People's
Republic of China |
haoxiaohui@hotmail.com |
10,
15, 25, 26, and 28 |
Alanna
Hartzok File |
USA |
earthrts@pa.net
http://www.earthrights.net |
28,
4, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, and 53 |
Alexander Heydendael File |
Canada |
alexander.heydendael@biodiv.org |
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 35, 43, 44, 45, 49, 53, 54, and 55 |
Peter Hills File |
People's Republic of China |
phills@hkucc.hku.hk |
1,
2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 36,
54, and 55 |
Mikylas Huba File
|
Slovakia |
geoghuba@savba.savba.sk
geoghuba@savba.sk |
1,4, 6, 7, 22, 25, 26, 28, 35 and 55 |
Joy Hyvarinen File |
U.K.
|
JH@ieeplondon.org.uk http://www.ieep.org.uk |
1, 4, 25, 26, 28, 36, 47 and 55 |
Vladimir Ira File
|
Slovakia |
ira@savba.sk |
1, 3, 4, 7, 22, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 40
|
Igor
G. Ivanov File |
Russia |
askalon@ab.ru
ic18igi@ic.dcn-asu.ru |
1,
7, 9, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 51, and 53 |
A. Jagadeesh File |
India |
a_jagadeesh@yahoo.com
vayoo@hotmail.com
a_jagadeesh@usa.net
a_jagadeesh@coolmail.com |
1, 3, 4, 7, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, 48, 49, 50, 53, and 55 |
Raghbendra Jha and K.V. Bhanu Murthy File
|
India |
rjha@igidr.ac.in
kvbm@del3.vsnl.net.in
bsmm@vsnl.com
http://www.igidr.ac.in/facu/rjha.htm |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 36, 37, 49 and 55 |
Tao Jiyi File |
People's
Republic of China |
taojiyizzz@21cn.com |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 35, 37, 39, 40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, and 55 |
Kun H. JOHN, Yeo C. Youn, and Jae W. Park File
|
South Korea |
Kunjohn@aol.com |
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, 24, 25, 28, 33, 35, and 36 |
Gennady N. Karopa File
|
Belarus |
greenway@karopa.belpak.gomel.by
gnkaropa@gsu.unibel.by
|
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 35, 41, 46, 47, 49, 53, 54, 55 |
Natalia Knijnikova File
|
Russia |
root@greenfeel.bitmcnit.bryansk.su |
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 35, 39, 40, 53, 54, and 55 |
ANITA KON File
|
Brasil |
anitakon@pucsp.br
anitakon@exatas.pucsp.br |
2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 35, 48, 49, 51, 54 and 55 |
Mikhail Krasnyanski File |
Ukraine |
public@library.donetsk.ua |
4, 1, 7, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, and 35 |
Michal Kravcik (Kravčík) File
|
Slovakia |
kravcik@ludiaavoda.sk
mvolav@changenet.sk
http://www.changenet.sk/peopleandwater/news.stm
http://www.peopleandwater.sk
http://www.changenet.sk/ludiaavoda/
|
1, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 47 |
Oystein S. LaBianca and Gary Brendel File
|
U.S.A. |
labianca@andrews.edu |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 35, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 52, 53, and 55 |
Isabelle Lambiel File |
Switzerland |
isabellelambiel@hotmail.com |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 35, 36, 40, 47, 53, and 55 |
Rebecca
Last File |
Canada |
info@ceia-acie.ca
conference@cisdl.org |
4,
10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 24, 26, 28, and 46 |
Tonu Lausmaa File |
Estonia |
tlausmaa@teleport.ee |
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 40, 54, and 55 |
Ming Lei File |
Japan |
leiming@gsm.pku.edu.cn
mlei@uji.energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 15, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, 46, 52, 53, 54, and 55 |
Igor N. Malakhov File
|
Ukraine, |
malakhov@ecok.freenet.kiev.ua |
1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 18, 20, 25, 26, 28, 36 and 55 |
H. M. Maralusiddaiah File
|
India
|
patel.asi@usa.net
patelsanjana@yahoo.com
|
2, 4, 7, 12, 13, 18, 25, and 28 |
Marin R. Mehandjiev and Krassimira R. Mehandjieva
File
|
Bulgaria |
abecop@museum.web.bg |
1, 3, 4, 7, 15, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, and 32 |
Isabel
Mendes File |
Portugal |
midm@iseg.utl.pt |
53
4, 19, 26, 28, 32, 36, and 53 |
Aubrey Meyer File |
U.K.
|
aubrey@gci.org.uk |
1, 4, 7, 9, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, 40, and 47 |
Leslaw
Michnowski File |
Poland |
http://www.psl.org.pl/kte
kte@psl.org.pl
elmamba@poczta.onet.pl |
#1
10, 15, 17, 19, 21, 28, 32, 36 and 59 |
Jose H. Moya File
|
Venezuela |
forja@reaccium.ve |
1, 3, 4, 7, 19, 25, 26, 28, 35, 41, 42, and 55 |
Khatam
Murtazaev File |
Republic
of Tajikistan |
murtaza@khj.tajik.net |
6,
9, 28, 48, and 49
|
Kh. Murtazaev, I.Turakulov and S.N. Karimov
File
|
Republic
of Tajikistan |
murtaza@khj.tajik.net |
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 25, 26, 28, 32, 36, 37, and 40 |
K.V. Bhanu Murthy File
|
India |
kvbm@del3.vsnl.net.in
bsmm@vsnl.com |
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13, 19, 21, 26, 28, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, and 49 |
Islam Israfil oglu Mustafaev
File
|
Azerbaijan |
IMustafaev@iatp.baku.az
ruzmk@rad.dl.ab.az |
1, 6, 9, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 40 |
Yunusov
Muzafar File |
Republic
of Tajikistan |
nigor@sugdien.com |
6,
7, 10, 11, 14, 26, 28, 35, and 49 |
James
Mwami File |
Uganda |
BusogaProject@maf.org |
1,
9, 26, 28, 35, 36, 38 and 47 |
Mukhamedjanov Ozod File
|
Republic of Uzbekistan |
ngo@cpart.silk.org
nargiza@abc.freenet.uz
vildana@cpart.silk.org |
1, 3, 4, 7, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 40 |
Beverly A. Paul File
|
Canada |
bpaul@julian.uwo.ca |
1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36, and 55 |
Akim
Rahman File |
U.S.A. |
akim.rahman@puc.state.oh.us
rahman.19@osu.edu |
1, 8,
4, 7, 11, 12, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 39, 40, 47
|
Md.
Hasibur Rahman File |
England |
hasibur.rahman@royagcol.ac.uk
icms@bdcom.com |
1,
2, 7, 25, 26, and 28 |
Madireddi Venkata Subba Rao File |
India |
subbarao_mv@yahoo.com
mvsmadhavi@hotmail.com |
1, 4, 7, 10, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36, 37, 53, and 55 |
E.Mohan Reddy File |
India |
ongcpr@vsnl.com |
1, 4, 7, 11, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36 and 40 |
B.Sudhakara Reddy File
|
India |
sreddy@igidr.ac.in |
4, 5, 7, 15, 24, 25, 26, 28, 35, and 40 |
Richard C. Rich File |
U.S.A. |
URBAN@VT.EDU |
1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 36, and 39 |
Svetlana D.Schlotgauer and Maria V. Kryukova File
|
Russia |
flora@ivep.khv.ru |
1, 28, 32, and 51 |
Vyacheslav Sharov File
|
Russia |
vbsharov@chat.ru |
3, 4, 6, 15, 22, 25, 26, 28, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, and 55 |
Brian
R. Shmaefsky File |
USA |
brian.shmaefsky@nhmccd.edu |
1,
25, and 28 |
ASUKA-ZHANG
Shouchuan(Jusen) File |
Japan |
susaki@mri.co.jp
asuka@sal.tohoku.ac.jp |
1,
25, and 28 |
Alexander
Skalon File |
Russia |
askalon@ab.ru
, ic18igi@ic.dcn-asu.ru |
1,
7, 9, 24, 26, 28, 36, 48, 51, and 53 |
Michal SKAPA File |
Czech Republic |
bqudeli@accc.ca
bgudeli@accc.ca
ptp@accc.ca
|
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 22, 26, 28, 35 and 36 |
Yuri Skochilov File
|
Tajikistan |
root@pamir.td.silk.glas.apc.org
root@pamir.td.silk.org
tabiat@sv.td.silk.org
http://di-145c.mit.edu/projects/leep/Ngo/ecocenter/index.html
|
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 22, 25, 26, 28, 35, 36, 41, 42, 43, 44, and 55 |
Bernie
Slepkov File |
Canada |
http://www.SustainableNiagara.ca
bernies@mergetel.com |
1,
9, 28, 33, and 36 |
Mike
Stephenson File |
Canada |
guelph@tao.ca,
csala@uoguelph.ca |
1,
9, 25, 26, and 28 |
Sorin
Tecucianu, Geanina Toma, and Niculina
Tecucianu File |
Romania |
apgro@mail.dntis.ro |
1,
3, 21, 26, 28 and 55 |
Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio File
|
BRAZIL |
teodosio@gold.com.br |
1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 15, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 35, and 36 |
Dirgha N. Tiwari File
|
Nepal |
dntiwari@hotmail.com |
1,3, 9, 25, 26, 28 and 36 |
Douglas Torgerson File
|
Canada |
|
1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 15, 25, 26, 28 and 55 |
Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez File |
Mexico
|
jgvh0811@yahoo.com jvargas08@berkeley.ed |
4, 11, 24, 26, 28, and 35 |
Jean-Guy Vaillancourt File |
Canada
|
jean.guy.vaillancourt@umontreal.ca www.greenpeace.ca |
1, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 47 |
Kamil Vilinovic, Milan Chrenko, Vladimir Hudek, Pavel Toma and Laszlo Miklos File |
Slovak Republic |
rec@changenet.sk
www.rec.sk |
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 23, 26, 28, 35, and 40 |
Shahidul Haque, Hasida Yasmin and Md. Hasibur Rahman File |
Bangladesh |
icms@bdcom.com |
2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 25, 26, and 28 |
Alyn
Ware File | USA | www.lcnp.org
alynw@attglobal.net | 1,
14 and 28 |
Alexander Wegosky File
|
Russia |
ecoland@kaluga.ru
http://ers.tarusa.ru
|
1, 2, 4, 11, 15, 19, 24, 26, and 28 |
Valentin Yemelin and Marilyn Mehlmann File
|
Russia |
libra@mailbox.alkor.ru
yemelin@rocketmail.com
gapinter@ett.se
|
3, 7, 22, 25, 26, 28, 33, 40, 54 and 55 |
Wu
yiming File |
People's
Republic of China |
wym66@163.net |
6,
7, 10, 24, 28 and 33 |
M.
Muzafar Yunusov File |
Republic
of Tajikistan |
nigor@sugdien.com |
6,
7, 10, 11, 14, 26, 28, 35, and 49 |
William M. Zadorsky File
|
Ukraine |
Ukraine.ecofond@ecofond.dp.ua
zadorsky@mail.comwww.zadorsky.8m.com |
1, 6, 7, 25, 26, and 28 |
Katalin K. Zaim File
|
Turkey |
kumar@central.murdoch.edu.au
kzaim@bilkent.edu.tr
http://www.ctp.bilkent.edu.tr/~kzaim |
1, 11, 26, 28, and 36 |
Zhong
Xiang Zhang File |
The
Netherlands |
http://www.eco.rug.nl/medewerk/zhang/
Z.X.Zhang@Rechten.RUG.NL
Z.X.Zhang@ECO.RUG.NL |
1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 17, 23, 26, 28, 39, and 55 |
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Recommendation by Leslaw Michnowski
Sustainable Development Information Society Forum - Poland
Leslaw Michnowski
kte@psl.org.pl
www.psl.org.pl/kte
the sustainable development of our people (…) comprehensive vision for the future of humanity (…) poverty eradication, changing consumption and production patterns (…) pillars of sustainable development - economic development, social development and environmental protection (…)
- WSSD - Johannesburg Declaration.
Dear Sir // Dear Madam
In this message we wish to inform you of an initiative presented by the delegation of the Polish government at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS, Geneva 2003, the relevant document is enclosed). That submission contained, inter alia, the following statements: (…) ways in which the world situation tends to evolve, creates an urgent need to build up a widely and freely accessible world information network. This network could serve to provide monitoring, forecasting and early warning (…) and thus help to implement the principles of sustainable development (SD). (…) This initiative aims to take up, on a global scale, the building of the information basis for SD-policy and SD-economy.
The reasoning for this submission is as follows:
Systems research conducted in Poland on the causes of a variety of social pathologies - which are dangerously intensifying! - proves beyond doubt that these pathologies are being brought about by the existing and gradually exacerbating global crisis. This crisis could be overcome on the condition that social relations - in the global dimension - are re-oriented towards the common good, and adjusted so as to make effective and good use of achievements of science and technology progress by the society.
In turn, to attain such a re-orientation, it is necessary to create a wisdom-based information society, which is far-sighted and flexible. For this to take place, priority should be given to the process of creation of a commonly accessible, world-wide system of:
- comprehensive monitoring;
- far-sighted forecasting and
- measurable evaluation
of effects of policy, work and other changes in the life conditions of human- beings and nature in general.
Such a SD-information system should be globally-integrated and territorially distributed. °In order to bring about the creation of such an information system, it is essential to carry out a large-scale operation, requiring appropriate developments in science, technology and society at large.
Due to the lack of such an information foundation for the global and local governance, a covert or overt struggle for access to scarce and shrinking natural resources will inevitably grow and accelerate the crisis. This crisis, if unchecked, will lead to a global catastrophe. The deficit of these resources should, and, we believe can, be eliminated through international cooperation, which should replace the existing competition. That, however, requires not only political will, but also the deepening of a comprehensive and easily accessible knowledge about the consequences of human actions and inactions.
In November 2005 in Tunis, the second, and final part of the World Summit on Information Society is scheduled to take place. If the ends outlined above are to be achieved, it is necessary that this initiative obtains recognition and strong international support.
Given all the above, we wish to ask you to support us in bringing this initiative to life, as it is urgently needed for survival of the humankind.
We are deeply convinced that building of the information basis for SD-policy and SD-economy is essential for averting a global catastrophe and achieving sustainable development of the world society.
With best regards,
Leslaw Michnowski
Enclosure
H.E. Professor Michal Kleiber
Minister of Scientific Research and Information Technology of the Republic of Poland
to the World Summit on the Information Society
Geneva, 11 December 2003
(…) We believe that the Internet and other ICTs technologies can be an effective
tool for forecasting and preventing global threats. It can also be a perfect means to support the implementation of the idea of sustainable development.
In my opinion, ways in which the world situation tends to evolve, creates an
urgent need to build up a widely and freely accessible world information network. This network could serve to provide monitoring, forecasting and early warning with regard to elements capable of triggering a global change and thus help to implement the principles of sustainable development.
Such a network would be vital in bringing us closer to a globalization process and its numerous phenomena ranging from the management of human settlements, world eco-systems, population movements up to other crucial elements of global transformation. (…)
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