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Invitation to the Social Summit List

PURPOSE OF THIS GROUP

The World Summit on Social Development (WSSD), to be convened by the UN General Assembly in 1995, will bring together Heads of State to agree on joint action around three themes:

In the spirit of the UN charter, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is sponsoring a List, Soc-summit, to facilitate broad discussion of the Social Summit issues. The List offers a forum for the exchange of ideas among all of those interested in the Summit themes. We seek wide participation in the discussion, and especially encourage those in developing countries to participate.

For those wishing to have direct influence on Summit outcomes, there are formal channels for providing input into the Summit. The List will offer information about those channels, as well as other Summit concerns.

Our hope is that the List participants will discuss:

The Social Summit (WSSD) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-12 March 1995. The second Summit Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) will meet 22 August to 2 September 1994. Country representatives will make many important decisions at that PrepCom.

HOW TO JOIN THE LIST

Anyone who has electronic mail with Internet access (e.g., Bitnet, Compuserve, Prodigy, Fidonet, etc.) can subscribe to the Soc-summit List. To join please send an e-mail to the LISTSERV host:

MAJORDOMO@CONFER.EDC.ORG

or

LISTSERV@CONFER.EDC.ORG

Do *not* enter a subject. In the body of the message, type the text:

SUBSCRIBE SOC-SUMMIT

Do *not* put your full name after SOC-SUMMIT. You will receive a Welcome Letter to the List. At the bottom of this letter you will find a brief questionnaire; your answers will help us understand how the Internet can enhance discussions about complex social issues.

OTHER RELEVANT RESOURCES

There are many documents on the Social Summit available on the Internet. Point your Gopher program at the address:

GOPHER.UNDP.ORG

Gopher will connect you to the UNDP Gopher Main Menu. To access WSSD documents, open the UN Conferences folder; then open the World Summit on Social Development folder inside the Conferences folder.

The Sustainable Development Network (SDN), a UNDP initiative to develop connectivity in many developing countries, also provides information on Sustainable Development Issues.

In addition, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin series on the UNDP Gopher provides an excellent summary of the preparatory conferences and other information.

LIST ADMINISTRATOR

This List is administered and monitored by Education Development Center, a nonprofit organization. EDC is working collaboratively with the UN system and is directly supported by UNDP for the activities in this project.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

The UNDP Project Officer in charge of this project is John Lawrence .

For further information about Soc-summit, please contact:

Janice Brodman
EDC
JANICEB@EDC.ORG

From: Stephen Isabirye 
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 15:10:24 -0400
From: Deborah Nagan 
Subject: Invitation to the Social Summit List
To: Multiple recipients of list HRS-L 
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