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SA MUSIC EVENT WEBCAST WORLDWIDE South African dance music talent will enjoy rare exposure to international listeners next week, when Jhblive.co.za Webcasts two hours of its Cyber Summer Party to the world. (source: http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2000/0012071023.asp ) WOYAA CHOOSES ITS TOP 50 AFRICAN SITES Sponsored by UNESCO, African web portal Woyaa! has chosen 50 African Web sites they consider best in education, science, culture, public information and community development. See <http://www.woyaa.com/topweb/all50sites.html>. FIGHTING JUNK MAIL A recent complainant on an African internet mail list asked how to stop junk mail being received from a company. The reply is worth noting: Best to use abuse.net (look at what they do at http://www.abuse.net). They’ll ask you to register first time you use the service. Very good service, very safe. (source:IOZ) AIDS-BELLS REPORT ON HOW HIV/AIDS AND TB AFFECTS BUSINESS & ECONOMY The South African based organisation "AIDS-BELLS" participated in the conference held in the city of Winterthur, Switzerland, to launch the : « Global working session to start the massive effort against the diseases of Poverty. This has been organised in response to the devastation brought about by the combination of three diseases : HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The Swiss city of Winterthur sponsored the event with WHO to launch the international mobilization.There is an exclusive report on http://www.aids-bells.org/, the new South African online magazine that looks at how HIV/AIDS and TB affect business, the economy, labour, law and security. Interview with private sector participants at the conference. SOUTH AFRICA’S COSATU OFFERS MEMBERS FREE E-MAIL The Congress of South African Trade Unions has announced the launch of a free, full-feature, online e-mail service for union members.A new web-site - http://www.union.org.za - has been launched to provide free e-mail facilities for union members - from general secretaries, through shop stewards to the rank-and-file - as well as for activists and members of the public who want to support the union. COSATU encourages anyone who wishes to subscribe to the service, to visit the site at http://www.union.org.za and to sign up. Says COSATU’s Head of Information Technology, Charley Lewis,"We have launched this service because we recognise the challenge of access as critical in enabling the federation to reach out to its constituency. We need our members to be connected in order to provide them with news and information on policies, decisions, campaigns, in order to communicate with them and receive feedback from them. We wanted to be able to provide e- mail services to union members who do not have a personal computer, but who may have occasional access to a computer - whether it’s the computer of a colleague, or a terminal in an internet café, or even the boss’s PC after hours behind his back!" SOCIAL CAPITAL AND CYBERPOWER IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY A forthcoming book chapter, ‘Social Capital and Cyberpower in the African American Community: A Case Study of a Community Technology Center in the Dual City’ by Abdul Alkalimat and Kate Williams, is available at: http://www.communitytechnology.org/cyberpower/ The article includes a photo gallery and a page for comments and discussion. The social capital invested in a community technology center determines its role in the community and in the continuing African American freedom struggle. Community technology center outcomes, presented with quantative and qualitative analysis of eight years of social activity, are measured as cyberpower. The overall question is whether social capital and cyberpower are creating a new Black counterpublic in the information society. (for further info: abdul.alkalimat@utoledo.edu or katewill@umich.edu )
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