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ISSUE NO 78 AFRICAN WEB NEWS AND USEFUL SITES

CONGOLESE USING THE WEB TO SEEK COMMON GROUND

The office of the facilitator of the inter-Congolese peace and reconciliation dialogue on 9 September announced the launch of a new and bilingual (French/English) web site at http://www.drcpeace.org that "will enable the office of the facilitator to channel information not only to all the actors involved in the process, journalists and experts, but most importantly to the Congolese themselves."

According to a statement from the office of the facilitator (former Botswanan President Ketumile Masire), the site contains the most recent information about the DRC, a directory of updates, publications and reports that can be downloaded, and includes an advanced research and navigation capacity. "The site will help fill the information gap currently existing on the progress of the DRC peace process," the statement noted.

(source: UN Integrated Regional Information Network via DigAfrica)

DIDATA NOW OFFERS INTERACTIVE MEETINGS IN REAL-TIME

Dimension Data says its recently launched Interactive Webmeeting Services enable users to carry out interactive seminars and presentations through a PC in real-time.

(source: http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2001/0109100738.asp )

EDITORIAL DISAGREEMENT DELAYS KABISSA-FAHAMU-SANGONET NEWSLETTER

An editorial statement from the African NGO e-letter Kabissa-Fahamu-Sangonet newsletter apologised to subscribers "for not having sent the newsletter out last week. A dispute occurred over an editorial prepared by Firoze Manji of Fahamu on his analysis of the terrorist attacks on the US last week. Although it was initially proposed by all parties that the editorial be published in Firoze’s name, Kabissa felt it was not appropriate to issue the Newsletter with that editorial. Instead the delayed Newsletter is being published this week with this explanatory editorial".

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO IMPLEMENT COMMUNITY-BASED TELECENTRES

UNESCO has just published "The Telecentre Cookbook for Africa: Recipes for Self-sustainability". The publication, which is available online, is a step-by-step guide on how to implement community based telecentres in an African environment complete with examples of telecentre infrastructure, baseline questionnaires, business plans, etc. The Cookbook was written by Mike Jensen and Anriette Esterhuysen in broad co-operation with telecentre practitioners and experts in Africa and abroad.

(http://www.unesco.org/webworld/news/2001/010713_cookbook.shtml)

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