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ISSUE NO 63 USEFUL WEBSITES AND DISCUSSION LISTS

WENZE.COM REPORTS WORLDWIDE TRAFFIC INCREASE

Since its launch on March 2001, Wenze.com’s number of visits has increased by 71 %. No baseline traffic figure was provided. Last month, there was a further 30% increase in visits. Wenze.com is being accessed from over 30 different countries. The top 5 include: USA, Canada, Belgium, France and Macedonia.Wenze.com is a division of Alkatrek, an emerging e-business development and consulting company based in Southern California. (source: http://www.wenze.com)

TELECENTRES EXPERIENCE FROM LAT AM AND CARIBBEAN NOW ONLINE

The online publication of "Telecenters for Socioeconomic and Rural Development in Latin America and the Caribbean", a joint FAO - IADB - ITU effort has just gone online.The Executive Summary, Power Point Presentation and Full report may be downloaded from:
http://www.iadb.org/regions/itdev/telecenters/index.htm

SURF’S UP FOR SOUTH AFRICA’S MOBILE USERS

iTouch, mobile information provider, is riding the big waves by teaming up with leading surfing portal Wavescape to keep SA’s wave chargers up to speed with surfing conditions along the Cape’s west, south, and eastern coastlines, as well as KwaZulu-Natal.

(source: http://www.boot.co.za/news/may01/touch29.asp )

TOUR SOUTH AFRICA WITH THE CLICK OF A MOUSE

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) launched the world’s first multi-media interactive tourism three-CD-Rom series yesterday, claiming that it is set to revolutionise the South African travel industry.

http://commtech.b2bafrica.com/industry_news/319401.htm

OPTONEWS AFRICA - A NEW SITE TO PROMOTE EYE HEALTH

A non governmental initiative to promote visual and eye health in Africa. One of the activities of this initiative is to disseminate optometry information to eye care staff through its newsletter in paper form. However, following requests from eye care staff outside target region to have an access to this information it has made its newsletter online. For more information, visit our website.
Contact: optonews_africa@hotmail.com
(source: http://www.kabissa.org/ona )

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