SDNP's Pakistan Development Gateway wins award

May 28, 2001

Pakistan Development Gateway (www.sdnpk.org), a website set up and maintained by the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP), a global programme of UNDP, managed by IUCN - The World Conservation Union, in Pakistan, has been chosen as an 'Open Directory Cool Site' http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Pakistan/Society_and_Culture/

The Open Directory Project (ODP) is a global Web project, initiated by Netscape to build the largest human edited directory of the Web. Working on the motto, "Humans do it better", it has been able to recruit a team of more than 37,000 editors - nearly all volunteers, with each responsible for a particular category - which has already indexed more than 2.6 million websites.

ODP honours the best websites with what they designate as the 'Cool Site' award. According to an ODP communication, not only has the SDNP website been designated as a 'Cool Site', it has been declared as the 'coolest site' in the 'Society and Culture' category of Pakistani websites. Only three other Pakistani websites, in a total of 1149 indexed by ODP, have won this distinction.