The following programs are all currently receiving our attention. A quick one-click visit to the respective opening Web page should serve to provide you with an in-depth update in each case. As you review them, bear in mind that a fair portion of the interactive activity in almost all cases takes place within the respective @World Forum, including in the Message Centers, Libraries, and Files & Media sections.
The Commons main entry website is receiving our full attention in an attempt to make it more interesting, clearer, more quickly informative, and more topical. (The layout and presentation format you see here is intended to be the new standard for all of our active programs.)
While the site for this very important program for 2004 continues under the old format (update to follow), there has been consistent consultation and many exchanges on technical and planning matters in the Message Center. The Consortium is closing in on the 300 member mark and continues to add several new members each week, and new projects are steadily being added to the Inventory.
This site and program intends to offer all those who are interested a 21st century group work platform, mediated by a steadily expanding series of electronic and communications tools, and specifically targeted to encourage and support alternative thinking and hands-on experimentation in the troubled world of work.
An Open Platform for Brainstorming & Group Problem Solving.
A recently reactivated forum under The Commons and in collaboration with the World Technology Network building on a decade of collaboration and research on a variety of energy and energy-related topics (including transportation, environment, technology developments and commercial applications).
A major and massive site overhaul is being carried out here, as our team is moving to increase international visibility, member support, and to begin to stake out new projects and venues of collaboration in cooperation with other groups and events working on the sustainable transport agenda. More than 500 international leaders in the field are being kept regular informed by the periodic newsletter and updates.
The Commons, the major world proponent of this somewhat off-center but potentially highly effective sustainability approach, was approached by the UN in 2001 to lead this cooperative program in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. This program has made some useful first steps but now needs to be overhauled and redirected in order to achieve its ambitious objectives. Negotiations and hard thinking in process here.
A partial overhaul of the site (using a shortly to-be-abandoned software menuing system), which clarifies its content. However, it needs to be more closely linked to the other transport related programs of The Commons to clarify how all these sites can work together as part of a broader, consistent policy thrust.(Stay tuned.)
A major site overhaul as per the above has been carried out here, in good part to respond to increased consultations due to the large number of CFD projects scheduled for September. You have probably see that The Commons was awarded,
jointly with the City of Bogota, the Stockholm Challenge Award for successful international collaboration in support of the first Car Free Day project ever to be organized on a Third World mega-city. (You can if you wish view the prize-giving ceremony by clicking here.)
An open trans-border collaborative developing software and support for New Ways to Work
in an Information Society. Supporting new forms and levels of distance work in the interest
of creative problem-solving, productivity, sustainability, quality of life and social
justice. (Web site in process.)
- But don't forget to keep you eye on the site of Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities.
We continue to support this international partnerships program and seek ways in which it extend and build on its impressive first rounds of accomplishment.
The vision of the Stockholm Partnerships is to gather comprehensive knowledge and information on the most innovative and inspiring sustainability projects from all over the world in a grand exposure of urban solutions and to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and technology from these initiatives.
- Join the World Sustainable Cities Consortium
Building on the vision and accomplishments of the 2001/2002 Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities program, The Commons has initiated a collaborative follow-on effort which is setting out to provide long term support for pattern-breaking sustainable city initiatives and partnership programs world wide over the period 2002-2022.
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