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 AFRICAN JOB OPPORTUNITIES ON THE WEB "Findajobinafrica.com (a subsidiary of Africaserve Ltd) is the latest and perhaps the most adventurous web based service aimed at maximising the job opportunities and potential in Africa by connecting potential employees to employers," according to its creators. It began operations through a pilot scheme launched in February 2000. It was founded in order to provide a solution to the relative lack of available information on recruitment and employment opportunities within Africa. The company consists of a network of Africans in Europe, North America and Africa. Executive directors are Jeremy Fields, James Dacosta and Lola Banjoko. The prototype website was placed on the worldwide web in October 2000 and has attracted approximately half a million hits to date (April 2001). This has been achieved without incurring any marketing expenses, an indication of the demand for this service. The success of Findajobinafrica.com has attracted the attention of strategic bodies one of such as led to the invitation of Findajobinafrica.com to speak at the Commonwealth Business Council Conference (17th June- 20th June 01) in South Africa topic "Bridging the skills gaps". The conference brought together strategic business and government leaders in the commonwealth. NEWS FROM SOUTH AFRICAN E-COMMERCE SITES AutoWorld, an auto Web portal that facilitates the searching, buying and selling of motor vehicles has been created. Digital Mall, TheRedGiftBag offer telesales gifting service TheRedGiftBag.com is working with Digital Mall to develop a telesales initiative to support its e-commerce offering. (source: http://www.itweb.co.za) ICANN SEEKS TO COOL .INFO DISPUTE The Internet’s top standards-setting body wrapped up its quarterly meeting here on Monday by moving to cool a cyberspace turf war between national governments and cybersquatters in the new ".info" domain. The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted to prevent domain names of countries, such as "angola.info," from falling into the hands of cybersquatters who used fraudulent applications to claim them in a preregistration period for trademark holders this summer. Web surfers will be able to find addresses such as "cocacola.info" starting on September 19, marking the first time an unrestricted domain, like the widely used ".com," will be added to the Internet since 1985. But the ".info" domain has faced its share of controversy, as anywhere from 10 percent to 25 percent of the 53,000 names registered so far appear to be based on questionable trademarks. Generic names like "finance.info" and country names have been prime targets for cybersquatters, who snatch up domain names with the hopes of reselling them later for a high fee. Afilias, the company sponsoring ".info," said it will challenge all questionable registrations in December. ICANN board members voted 11 to 7 to prevent any more country names from being registered by outsiders, and to require Afilias to hand over recovered domain names to the countries involved. Country names would be taken from an official list established by the International Organization for Standardization. ICANN’s ban will expire in March of next year, when the group meets in Accra, Ghana. (source: Reuters) BT RUNS ONLINE DIGITAL DIVIDE DEBATE WITH ACCOUNTABILITY The joint BT and AccountAbility debate on the Digital Divide starts on 24th September. Register now at http://www.groupbt.com/society/yourviews_email.htm How important do you think the digital divide is? Do you think BT is doing enough to close the digital divide? The discussion will kick off on September 24 th with a two week email discussion leading up to a live online debate with Pierre Danon, CEO of BT Retail, on October 10th. Visit http://www.groupbt.com/society/yourviews_email.htm to register or to suggest issues for future discussion.
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