Message-ID: <199505192333.UAA03327@chasque.apc.org> Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 20:33:46 -0300 From: Roberto Bissio <mailto:rbissio@CHASQUE.APC.ORG> Subject: EARTH SUMMIT NGO CD-ROM To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
/* Escrito 10:50 am May 19, 1995 por ngonet en chasque:en.unced.news */ /* ---------- "EARTH SUMMIT NGO CD-ROM" ---------- */ THE EARTH SUMMIT NGO CD-ROMThird World Institute announces the release of
THE EARTH SUMMIT NGO CD-ROM
The first and unique compilation of NGO documents on the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
The production of this CD-ROM was supported by the International Development Research Centre (Canada).
During the Earth Summit process civil society and social movements raised alternative voices that became an uproar at the Earth Summit.
This unavoidable testimony contains more than 30,000 pages of information, hundreds of graphics, drawings and cartoons.
With this CD-ROM you can read, select, print and copy to your own PC or diskette all the NGO proposals and debates before, during and after the UNCED meeting.
You can search the subject or the documents of your interest under any word, keyword or author, and even refer to quoted documents directly through interactive hot links.
In order to facilitate its use, you can select the software's working language (options are English, French and Spanish).
The CD-ROM includes:
* The preparatory meetings * Regional and national reports * Documents on global issues * Citizen's input at the Preparatory Committee * Documents and statements of the Global Forum * Treaties and signatories of the International NGO Forum * Documents of the Female Planet * Children's input * Follow-up documents and meetings * The best cartoons and documents * The complete collections of the ''Bruntland Bulletin', 'Crosscurrents', 'Dazibao', 'ECIX Newsletter', 'ECO Newsletter', 'Econews Africa', 'EESI Earth Summit Update', 'Network 92', 'Red 92', 'Servicio Especial ALAI', 'Terra Viva'(in Spanish and English), 'US Citizen's Network Newsletter for UNCED'. * More than 500 articles publishd by magazines from all over the world * The press coverage * The APC Network's electronic conferences * The serial publications of Third World Network, NGONET, Red del Tercer Mundo, Greenpeace * Special issues * Official documents quoted in NGO documents * NGOBIB: a bibliographic database on environment and development * NGODAT: a contact's database
Minimun configuration to use the CD-ROM:
* any IBM compatible microcomputer running Windows 3.0 * CD-ROM drives should conform with the ISO 9660 standard
Orders, requests and information:
NGONET-CDROM Casilla Correo 1539 Montevideo 11000, Uruguay Tel: (598-2) 49 61 92 Fax: (598-2) 41 92 22 E-mail: mailto:ngocdrom@chasque.apc.org
Price: US$ 100 Special Price for Northern NGOs: US$ 70 Special Price for Southern NGOs: US$ 50
Third World Institute (ITeM) is a non-profit organisation based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Its main goals are to promote South-South exchange of information and democratization of access to information. NGONET is an information program that aims at supporting NGO networks and civil society participation in global decision-making processes.