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This project and web site is in the process of a major update and total overhaul. Our intention is to line it up with the new African Streets project which is to be a major focus of our international collaborative work in 2010. (See below.)

It is our hope that progress that is made in developing the African Streets project over the coming year will reinforce and extend the original Gatnet program. The potential synergies at this point look to be considerable.

Gatnet.net Origins

The Gatnet.net website was originally set up in early 2006 in the hope of proving useful as a tool to extend the work and reach of the GATNET: Gender and Transport Community of Practice project. The Gatnet listserv is located at http://tinyurl.com/gatnet. Our reasons for launching this support project were set out at the time here at http://gatnet.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_archive.html.

Over the course of the five years that have since passed this site has been little used and has generated the bridge that we were hoping it might provide to deepen and extend the Gatnet group. In all it has received somewhat more than three thousand visitors, a pace of about one or two a day. In the last two month however this rate has roughly doubled, indicating to us that there is growing interest in the possibility of doing something with this. (This interest was in all likelihood set off by the recent activity over at World Streets.)

The following map shows the origins of the last visitors as of this date.

We would draw your attention to the geographic distribution of these readers. And while these locations shift from day to day the basic patter is pretty much what you see there.

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African Streets

We are looking at this site again in the context of a new project that is receiving attention here at New Mobility Partnerships and World Streets as a result of a commitment on our part of give much greater attention to providing information on and supporting as best we can sustainable transport projects in Africa, with particular attention to matters relating to fair transport for women and children. You can see our working notes on that program here at http://tinyurl.com/ws-af2

If you wish to follow progress on the African Streets projects, here are three handy points of reference.

1. The working forum which you can find at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AfricanStreets/.
2. The Gatnet discussions about this at http://tinyurl.com/gatnet.; and
3. the ongoing articles and discussions on World Streets that involve African Streets issues which you can pick up at http://tinyurl.com/ws-africa

Have any ideas for us, or wish to join these discussions. Please do not hesitate to get in touch. A good starting point is to contact editor@worldstreets.org or Skype to newmobility.

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