The El Nino Information Forum
The El Nino Information Forum
A new Web site the El Nino Information Forum has been established by the UK National Committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR)and the Reuter Foundation. The forum is intended to provide a "gateway to El Nino information on the World Wide Web"; it directs the visitor to the most important Web sites in a structured manner, with comments on the sites and host organizations. The site also consolidates current information from electronic and printed sources, including valuable unpublished literature on El Nino's socioeconomic impacts and the steps needed to deal with them. It is also intended to provide a forum for expert debate.
The site is hosted by the Reuter Foundation's AlertNet Web site, http://www.alertnet.org,a noncommercial service offering Reuters news and a medium for voluntary organizations to exchange information in order to improve the speed and effectiveness of emergency relief operations. The first pages of the El Nino Forum are now being pilot tested and can be viewed in the AlertNet "Crisis"section. The site will be expanded further during the coming months. Feedback is welcome, as is new material for the site; interested persons are invited to use the feedback section on the AlertNet site or to contact John Twigg, UK National IDNDR Committee: twigg.glynn@virgin.netor Cassie Knight, The Reuter Foundation: cassie.knight@reuters.com
