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The New Mobility Kids Network was initially set up in this space on the web in 1998 under the New Mobility Agenda in an attempt to provide a collaborative international brainstorming forum and sharing platform, looking specifically at issues of sustainable transport and our children. (It is one of more than a dozen focus programs under the Agenda, for which further information is available here. One of the outstanding characteristics of all these programs is their extensive international, multi-disciplinary, multi-language coverage and habit of peer group discussions and support. Another is their 100% focus on pragmatic low low cost tools, measures and improvments that can be implemented and show visible results within the 2007-2010 priod.
The intent was and is to allow anyone anywhere in the world who cares about these things a convenient free place to come together to share and develop ideas, materials and collaborative actions on matters involving children and the ways in which they can and could move around in our communities in their daily lives. And how we can perhaps work with them to help them better understand and link their personal mobility practices to the broader challenges of sustainable development and full lives. Kids today no doubt -- but tomorrow's responsible citizens and leaders.
This site has been inactive for far too long (... something like six years?) and we are now getting to work in an attempt to back to life in the hope of making it useful to those of us who care about children and their full development. This site and the program behind it are driven by an open group process of dynamic interaction and feedback which it has been designed to set in motion. You will notice at this point in the rebuilding process a huge number of flagrant holes and errors as you go along. If so, please let us know so we can correct them. And in the meantime, thank you for your patience. And your participation.
Our process of updating and improving the site started today. Our first step is a hasty first clean-up of the site so that it can at least be read and understood by people of good will and real interest in these matters, with a new "About" section which sets out the present state of play here and intentions for the immediate future.
We also are starting to build in some additional functionality into the program as you will see in the Outreach (New) section in the menu just to your left.
We think this is a fair start, but only a start. Lots more thought and work needed. Pitch in and help us to make it into something solid and useful.
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