ISSD Sources and links

Sources and Links

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Invitation: This is intended to be a shared information assett which is by, for and of its users. You are therefore cordially invited to contact us with your suggestions, recommendations, materials for uploading in the ftp site, your ideas for interesting links, etc., in order to make this a more powerful and varied tool for all concerned. In the meantime until this site is filled out, we refer you to the following for further information and guidance on these matters.

Some useful places to start:

To obtain a copy of the special edition of the March 1996 Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice dedicated to a balanced assessment of the prospects for The Information Society and Sustainable Development, you are invited to contact DG XIII/B of the European Commission at: pdg@postman.dg13.cec.be (If for some reason that does not work, contact WebMeister/100336.2154@compuserve.com.)
You may find it useful to consult the public ftp 'electronic library' site which has been set up within this forum under the address: ftp://ftp.the-commons.org/pub/info-soc/.
You may also wish to consult ftp://ftp.the-commons.org/pub/Tools/ for a number of useful utilities and tools (freeware and shareware) that can facilitate the exchange and use of this documentation.

The report of the Working Circle on Sustainability and the Information Society, Contributions of the Information Society to Sustainable Development can be obtained through Dr. F.J. Radermacher at radermac@faw.uni-ulm.de. Also see http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de/sust-info-society.
To download a copy of the European Commission's report Building the Information Society for Us All of DG V's High Level Expert Group on the Social and Societal Aspects of the Information Society, go to: http://www.ispo.cec.be/hleg/hleg.html A Green Paper on Living and Working in the Information Society: People First has also been released and can be obtained via http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/legreg/docs/peopl1st.html
DG XIII of the Commission has set up an independent international consultative panel under the name of The Information Society Forum which has issued a number of reports and position statements. More on this can be obtained from Mr. Jorg Wenzel at ispo@ispo.cec.be or via http://www.ispo.cec.be/
European Telework Development is a new collaborative initiative aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of telework, improving policy and programme developments relating to it, and encouraging wider take up of key technologies will run for an initial three years starting July 1996.

Additional information on contacts and sites will be found on the last pages of the first of our above Information Society report.

More IS/SD WWW Links and Sources:

You are warmly invited to let us know of additional programs, reports, and sources which could be useful to others consulting this site by contacting WebMeister