| Coordinator's
Note
The activities of APMN Phase
II are progressing smoothly. Selection of proposals for
the first round of the APMN Small Grants' Programme, for
the APMN Fiscal Year May 1999 to April 2000, has been completed.
Please see under `Report' in this Bulletin for details.
Membership of the Mountain
Forum Asia Pacific Mountain Network has been growing. To
date, the membership stands at around 700. About 200 people
have subscribed to the Mountain Forum-Asia List.
The Home Page (www.apmn.mtnforum.org)
has been revised and contains more information on mountains
of Asia and the Pacific. The most significant addition to
the Home Page is the database on mountain ranges and peaks
in Asia and the Pacific, which includes coloured maps depicting
the mountain peaks and ranges. Also, an inventory of mountain
peaks and ranges is now available on-line.
APMN/ICIMOD signed an agreement
with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
to implement a project entitled `Capacity Building in Internet
Technologies and Web Publishing for Sustainable Mountain
Development, Information Management and Networking in Central
Asia'. APMN will implement this project between now and
June 2001 in close collaboration and partnership with mountain
development institutions in Central Asia (see below for
details).
After three years with APMN/ICIMOD,
Kishor Pradhan decided to move. He left us in April to join
the Asia Disaster Preparedness Centre in Bangkok. We owe
much to Kishore, for, without his interest, commitment,
and dedication, APMN would not have come as far as it has
today. We wish him well in his new endeavours. Now, perhaps,
ADPC will have even more of a focus on mountain disasters.
Mr. Ujol Sherchan joined APMN/ICIMOD on 28 March as the
new APMN Information Analyst/Network Administrator. He replaces
Kishor Pradhan. Mr. Ujol Sherchan has a degree in Economics
and has experience working with development-related projects
in Nepal. He can be reached at <ujol@icimod.org.np>.
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