Cybersurf

Hello good morning and welcome to Cybersurf, your friendly Monday morning update on what’s happening on the web – I am your Cyberhost Steven Lang.

If you have ever wondered how information and communication technologies can really benefit society – you ought to be in Cape Town – at least this week, because today the Western Cape’s first ever Information Society Week clicks off at the Civic Centre in Cape Town.

And to find out about the Information Society Week you should visit the Cape gateway site which can be found at www.capegateway.gov.za that is capegateway – one word dot gov dot za.

A number of organisations are working together to ensure the success of the Information Society Week – they include – the provincial government of the Western Cape, the Centre for e-Innovation in partnership with the Cape Peninsula University of technolgoy, the City of Cape Town and the Department of Communications

The Information Society week will incorporate a number of high profile events such as the SANGONET colloquium on the World Summit on the Information Society; a women in ICT conference; an applications conference and the annual conference of CIRN – which is an acronym for the Community Informatics Research Network.

And joining us from the SABC’s Sea Point studio in Cape Town, is Dr. Michael Gurstein – the founding chairman of CIRN.

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Dr. Michael Gurstein – the founding chairman of the Community Informatics Research Network.

If you would like to find out more about the CIRN conference or any other aspect of the Western Cape’s first ever Information Society Week, please go to the Cybersurf blog which you will find at www.cybersurf.blogspot.com.

I will put all the relveant addresses and this script on the blog – so remember www.cybersurf.blogspot.com.

Thanks for listening and please join me again next Monday for more on the best of the web.

Relevant Links:

• Cape Gateway
• The SANGONET civil society World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) thetha: Mon, 22 August 2005
  
• The annual CIRN conference: 24 - 26 August 2005
  
• WWW Applications Conference: 29 - 31 August 2005
  
• Women in ICT Conference: 24 - 26 August 2005