R E S O U R C E S

  The new service will help to integrate and contextualize new sustainable development thinking and solutions developed by the partners. The SD Gateway integrates the substantive content from all the partner sites into a relational database, making it easy to find information about a given topic from all of the partners. One of the primary concerns is to support the work of southern organizations to share their knowledge about fostering sustainability in their regions.

  The prototype of the SD Gateway (http://www.sdgateway.net) was launched by the partners of the Spinning the Web Project. Spinning the Web was initiated as a joint effort between the International Development Research Center (IDRC) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

  The SD Gateway integrates the knowledge and experiences of a network of sustainable development organizations from around the world including:

• Development Alternatives (India)
• Earth Council (Costa Rica)
• Environnement et Developpement du Tiers Monde (Senegal)
• International Development Research Center (Canada)
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada)
• Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary)
• Stockholm Environment Institute (Sweden)

  In addition to providing links to partner content, the SD Gateway also contains a number or services and tools developed specifically for the Spinning the Web project. These include:

• a framework for understanding sustainable development;
• an encyclopedia of sustainable development which synthesizes partner learnings;
• a calendar of events (negotiations, conferences, on-line events); and
• additional links to relevant background information on the Internet.

While still under development, we encourage you to visit the SD Gateway prototype (http://www.sdgateway.net) and send us your comments.

Ñ Rossen Roussev