A new database accessible via the Internet lists more than 500 people responsible for environmental concerns in town and city governments all around the ten мaccession nationsо of Central and Eastern Europe, according to the November 2 issue of Green Horizon, the newsletter of the Media Information Service (MIS) of the Regional Environmental Center (REC) for Central and Eastern Europe in Szentendre, Hungary.

The database was put together as part of a project called Coordinated Action for Pan-European Transport and Environment Telematics Implementation Support (CAPE), which aims to encourage the implementation of telematics technologies among local and regional authorities across Europe. Telematics applications use networks of computers, telecommunication systems and other technologies to help local authorities manage environmental and transportation issues. The database put together for this project is an excellent way to find local environmental specialists in large towns and cities in those CEE nations that are in line for membership in the European Union: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. To search the CAPE database check out http://www.rec.org/REC/Databases/LocGov/LocGovFind.html.
For more information on the CAPE project see http://www.rec.org/telematics/cape.