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External web sites:
ADD
Two major features were created for
the ‘Gateway to the Arctic ‘web site1
which GRID-Arendal hosts for the
International Arctic Environment Data
Directory (ADD). A new user inter-
face was created at the beginning of
the year to facilitate access to the data
directory and to background informa-
tion about the project. Later in the
year individual country web page
templates were created so that institu-
tions in the participating Arctic coun-
tries could maintain their own data
directory homepages.
Arctic Parliamentarians Homepage
A new homepage2 was created for The
Standing Committee of Parliamentarians
of the Arctic Region. The web site
features background information, news
relating to past and future conferences,
and profiles of Arctic Parliamentarians.
A large section of the web site features
a compilation of sustainable develop-
ment initiatives, programs, policies and
organisations that contribute to
sustainable development in the Arctic.
EIS-SSA
Work continued throughout the year
to support the Environment Informa-
tion Systems in Sub-SaharanAfrica
(EIS-SSA ) web site3. Along with a
new, simplified user interface, cases of
‘best practices’ of environmental infor-
mation systems publications and new
issues of the EIS-SSA newsletter were
added to the site.
REDUCE
A new homepage was created for
REDUCE 4. The objective of this
European project is to help reduce the
use of chemicals that are dangerous to
health, environment and safety. The
site features information about the
project, how individuals can get
involved and presents the information
in English, Norwegian, German,
Spanish, Italian, and Danish.
New web products
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