Information Habitat: Where Information Lives is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council that has focused on the transformational role of information & communications technologies in the transition to a sustainable common future. Information Habitat pioneered, promoted and facilitated broad-based online participation and dissemination of information in the historic series of global conference beginning with the preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
In recent years, Information Habitat has been focusing its energies at a local level, including public participation on the soon-to-be launched .nyc top-level domain, and managing a