UPCOMING PLANS   (February 26, 1999)  One of the pioneers of email and Internetworking in Pakistan, SDNP is finally going to launch its online services from four of its five centres in the country, i.e., Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. The fifth centre, Quetta, which is our latest node, and from where we started our email and offline Internet services in August 1998, doesn't have the connectivity infrastructure for setting up online services. Coupled with these enhanced connectivity plans is our information services for which a team is being recruited. The flagship of these info services would be our web site which we envision to become the one-stop site for all significant Sustainable Human Development info on Pakistan in the form of a meta-repository. Apart from hosting web pages of organizations that are prime information sources in Pakistan, links will be created to other sites where relevant information can be found. Some of the larger organisations may also be assisted to set up their own web servers (e.g. SDPI, Federation of Commerce). Capacity building of the target organizations in accessing the required information (through training in the effective use of Internet) and disseminating theirs (through training in web publishing) would be another important component of this programme.  Some other related activities -- like setting up a virtual library or development of software for Development Information Systems (DIS) -- are also being contemplated. The web site would be launched simultaneously with our online services, hopefully in the next couple of months. It'll however take a few more months for this site to take some shape. Most of the information that we are looking for is still not available in the electronic form and a huge amount of effort is required to locate and convert it in this form.  Hasan Rizvi, email: rizvi@sdnpk.undp.org  Sustainable Development Networking Programme, Phone: 051-270684,270691 PO Box 3099, House 12, Street 85, G-6/4, Fax: 051-270688 Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.

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