MONTEVIDEO / USA ET |4:00 pm LONDON | 5:00 pm PARIS
| 8:00 pm ISTANBUL Diane Gilman and Robert Gilman of the Context Institute will chat on Humane Sustainable Communities: What we've learned. Since its founding in 1979, Context Institute has focused entirely on research, education and consulting on issues of sustainable
development.
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1996 9:00 am USA PT | 11:00 am MEXICO | 12:00 pm
MONTEVIDEO / USA ET |3:00 pm LONDON | 4:00 pm PARIS
| 7:00 pm ISTANBUL Eve Herzer, president of the International Committee
of Lawyers for Tibet and Losang Ragabay, is a Tibetan exile living in
Canada. Eve and Losang will be speaking on "Destruction by design: the
housing rights violation in Tibet."
6:00 pm USA PT | 8:00 pm MEXICO | 9:00 pm MONTEVIDEO / USA ET | 11:00 pm
LONDON | 1:00 am PARIS | 4:00 am ISTANBUL Reverend Roy Sniffen, David G.
Schwartz, Robin L. Morgan and Ven. Pema Ghedun Zangpo, all hosts from the
web-based "Religions & Spiritualities" Forum, will discuss Spirituality
and the urban environment.
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1996 9:00 am USA PT | 11:00 am MEXICO | 12:00 pm
MONTEVIDEO / USA ET |3:00 pm LONDON | 4:00 pm PARIS
| 7:00 pm ISTANBUL Anne Hoiberg, president of United Nations Association,
speaks about an NGO perspective: what are the expectations from
grassroots women.
SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1996 9:00 am USA PT | 11:00 am MEXICO | 12:00 pm
MONTEVIDEO / USA ET |3:00 pm LONDON | 4:00 pm PARIS
| 7:00 pm ISTANBUL Beverly Lawrence, retired executive director of the
Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing in California will speak on
shelter strategies for women and communities.
11:00 am USA PT | 1:00 pm MEXICO | 2:00 pm MONTEVIDEO / USA ET | 5:00 pm
LONDON | 6:00 pm PARIS | 9:00 pm ISTANBUL Ruth Engo Bamela-Tjega, PhD. UN
Department of Economic and Social Development, will be providing a
perspective from the African Caucas.
MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1996 8:00 pm USA PT | 10:00 pm MEXICO | 11:00 pm
MONTEVIDEO / USA ET | 2:00 am LONDON | 3:00 am PARIS
| 6:00 am ISTANBUL Mickey Ferrance of NASA Ames will chat about designing
communities in outer space.
TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1996 10:00 am USA PT | 12:00 pm MEXICO | 1:00 pm
MONTEVIDEO / USA ET |4:00 pm LONDON | 5:00 pm PARIS
| 8:00 pm ISTANBUL Reverend Roy Sniffen, David G. Schwartz, Robin L.
Morgan and Ven. Pema Ghedun Zangpo, all hosts from the web-based
"Religions & Spiritualities" Forum, will chat about spirituality and the
urban environment
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1996 7:00 pm USA PT | 9:00 pm MEXICO | 10:00 pm
MONTEVIDEO / USA ET | 1:00 am LONDON | 2:00 am PARIS | 5:00 am ISTANBUL
Diane Gilman and Robert Gilman of the Context Institute will discuss
Humane Sustainable Communities and "What happens next?"
During the Tomorrow's Cities webcast of the Habitat II conference, 'Net
users will also have the opportunity to voice their opinions about
conference-related issues and themes. Currently, there are 11 themes and
issues planned for the discussion boards: The Right to Housing, Best
Practices (the sharing of best practices between governments and cities),
Urban Homelessness, Women in the City, Youth Concerns for Habitat II, The
Role of Technology, Environmental Issues Relating to the Urban Habitat,
Partnerships, Population Issues, Spirituality and Religion, and The Role
of Music and the Arts.
In addition, there will be daily polls, allowing 'Net users to voice
their opinion about conference-related issues. Through the daily poll,
citizens around the world will all have the right to place a vote that
will be heard by conference leaders.