The New Mobility Kids Network was initially set up in this space on the web in 1998 under the New Mobility Agenda in an attempt to provide a collaborative international brainstorming forum and sharing platform, looking specifically at issues of sustainable transport and our children. (It is one of more than a dozen focus programs under the Agenda, for which further information is available here. One of the outstanding characteristics of all these programs is their extensive international, multi-disciplinary, multi-language coverage and habit of peer group discussions and support. Another is their 100% focus on pragmatic low low cost tools, measures and improvments that can be implemented and show visible results within the 2007-2010 priod.

The intent was and is to allow anyone anywhere in the world who cares about these things a convenient free place to come together to share and develop ideas, materials and collaborative actions on matters involving children and the ways in which they can and could move around in our communities in their daily lives. And how we can perhaps work with them to help them better understand and link their personal mobility practices to the broader challenges of sustainable development and full lives. Kids today no doubt -- but tomorrow's responsible citizens and leaders.