FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2002 Contact: Jennifer De Beer +27(21) 808 4367 and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE Stellenbosch, WC, South Africa - The Information Technology Division, Stellenbosch University, takes pleasure in launching the Information Infrastructure Initiative, geared to providing Web hosting services to scholars, scholarly societies and academic bodies not officially affiliated with Stellenbosch University. The focus of the initiative will be on providing services to non-profit entities. As such, the Information Infrastructure Initiative has the altogether modest aim of providing a platform for Southern African scholars and societies to establish a sustained Web presence at highly affordable rates - be it to establish a Web presence, or to take research output online. Its address on the Internet is http://webhost.sun.ac.za "It has been said that in order to determine the future, it is best to look, not ahead, but around [1]. This is exactly what the Information Technology Division of Stellenbosch University has done," says Jennifer De Beer, Stellenbosch University Web Administrator and key instigator of the initiative. Based on the fair number of requests for hosting space received to date, the Information Infrastructure Initiative has been born with a view to providing an affordable technological platform for African scholarship. We know and acknowledge that scholars and scholarly societies tend to plow the bulk of their funds into conference attendance, conference hosting and print journal publication, often lacking the capital outlay for exploring the use of new media. It is hoped that by means of this initiative, the entry-barrier to new media is considerably lowered. 1 - Seely Brown, J & Duguid, P. 2000. The Social Life of Information. Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, 2000. Visit <http://webhost.sun.ac.za> for more information on the Information Infrastructure Initiative. ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
