World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment
The International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) has designated CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, the World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment. It is one of more than 40 centers comprising the World Data Center System, and is the first non-solar and non-geophysical WDC to be established by the ICSU. Why Human Interactions? It is now widely recognized that human activities can both influence and be influenced by global environmental change. The key to understanding these influences will come through the analysis and integration not only of geophysical and ecological data, but also a wide range of socioeconomic data.

World Links for Development (WorLD)
Links students and teachers in secondary schools in developing countries with students and teachers in industrialized countries for collaborative learning programs via the Internet.

Educación Ambiental
Spain

Enlaces Ambientales.
Peru

Global Gateway (World Bank)
"Content Management: A Development Clearinghouse will help bring together dispersed development knowledge - knowledge that is not only difficult to find and sift through, but is often of varying and unstated quality. The Clearinghouse will help provide information about practical and effective solutions to development problems. This multidisciplinary, "virtual clearinghouse" -- linking users to expert services, quality assessment, knowledge and data management tools -- will facilitate customized access to development information, tailored to individual user needs. Content will be gathered - or linked - in collaboration with many information providers through formal partnerships and other alliances...."

March Alert: World Bank and Microsoft Net-Domination Plans
Who do you trust to define global knowledge about development? The powerful World Bank with its dogmatic and destructive history, or independent networks committed to social justice and environmental protection?

The Global Development Gateway, DRAFT 1.0 - 02/14/00
The Global Development Gateway will ...

About: The Human Internet
Are you ready to become an online leader of a community of people who share your interests? Are you ready to get paid for what you love to do? • Apply to become an About Guide! • About Guides are fully empowered to do all of these things. Each Guide's mission is to create an easy, intuitive and gratifying experience for people interested in their topic. • Each Guide is carefully screened and trained by About. All Guides must successfully complete the About training program and maintain our high standards in user services and community leadership. Guides write original informative articles, create lively newsletters and provide the Web's best links for their topics. This relationship between Guides and users makes About a dynamic service that truly responds to the needs of anyone who visits. • Examples: Ecotourism, Wireless