March 2004

This Months Highlight: Sustainable Transportation from the GDRC Programme on UEMRI How can the focus shift from mobility to access? Sustainable transportation concerns systems, policies, and technologies. It aims for the efficient transit of goods and serivces, and sustainable freight and delivery systems. The design of vehicle-free city planning, along with pedestrian and bicycle frendly design of neighbourhoods is a critical aspect for grassroots activities, as are telework and teleconferencing. GDRC's section on this theme covers a range of issues, and provides links to what organizations, institutions and networks are doing. As with all sections of GDRC, contributions, comments and suggestions are always welcome from users and subscribers! Please contact GDRC's Coordinator at - mosaic@gdrc.org FOCUS ON GDRC: Cook books v/s Nutrition guides This section focuses on information management lessons learnt in coordinating GDRC's activities. One of the reasons that make GDRC popular among its users (based on feedback and queries received) is the format of the information it provides that facilitate and inspire local action. It does not provide prescriptive solutions (i.e. cook-books that provide step-by-step instructions to prepare a dish), but rather lays out a contextualizing big picture framework, within which different concepts and approaches can be tried (i.e. nutrition guides that provide indicators to what needs to be consumed). WHAT'S NEW AT GDRC'S WEBSITE? All GDRC: Information on the five spheres of GDRC was updated and expanded! Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: Pacific Island Nations' Regional Action Plan Environmental Decision-Making: To do or not to do - Facilitating Decision-Making for Sustainable Buildings Urban Environmental Management: Green Construction - Looking at the Big Picture: Life Cycle Thinking for the Building and Construction Sector Urban Environmental Management: Cities and MEAs - Selected Global Environmental Assessments Oceans, Coasts and Small Islands: Importance of Community Networking to Preserve Rivers NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - Management Accounting for NGOs NGO Cafe: Kickstart an NGO - Setting up an NGO's By-Laws NGO Cafe: Flash! - Aid Workers Forum Knowledge Management: Global Convergence and Local Divergence - Implications of Online Information Explosion MONTHLY STATISTICS FOR GDRC'S WEBSITE Total hits encountered - 830,252 Total files downloaded - 679,004 Total pages viewed - 239,422 Total web visitors - 89,371 Total KBytes - 5,948,614 Pages per day - Avg. 7,723; Max.14,710 Visits per day - Avg. 2,882; Max. 3,661 ABOUT GDRC MOSAIC The "GDRC Mosaic" is a monthly email newsletter that provides information bites, and summarizes programme activities of GDRC, including new items added to the website. To subscribe: http://www.gdrc.org/about/newsletter.html To unsubscribe: unsubscribe - mosaic@gdrc.org Comments, suggestions and contributions: mosaic@gdrc.org CONTACT ADDRESS: Global Development Research Center 5-13-3-1601, Nakano-cho, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka 534-0027, Japan Tel / Fax: +(81-6) 6925-8005 mosaic@gdrc.org http://www.gdrc.org/ © 2003-2005, GDRC. All rights reserved.