NEDLAC LAUNCHES A SITE ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB-HTTP://WWW.NEDLAC.ORG.ZA

10 May 1996

Nedlac today joins the electronic-publishing revolution by launching its site on the Internet's World-Wide Web. It can be accessed at http://www.nedlac.org.za, preferably with a Netscape browser.

Designed by Adri Schütz of Kaleidesign and Stephen Garratt of iCafé, both Cape Town-based enterprises, the Nedlac site gives visitors instant access to information about Nedlac. Some of its features are:

• A selection of information from the Nedlac founding documents and brochure.
• Concise explanations of its structure.
• Documents issued by Nedlac since its inception.
• Media articles on Nedlac.
• All Nedlac information bulletins and news releases.

Since its pilot phase started in late January this year, the site has attracted considerable attention and praise from Web-page experts. Nedlac plans to keep visitors dedicated to the site by continually updating it with new features and information on Nedlac's activities. While browsing the site, visitors will be able to:

• E-mail comments and suggestions to Nedlac.
• Send e-mail messages to all members of the Nedlac secretariat.
• Add their names and contact details to the Nedlac database.

The Nedlac site joins a technological innovation which has captured the imagination of the entire world. The World-Wide Web allows anybody with access to the Internet to publish information instantly and at extremely low cost to millions of people who are using this timely, instantly accessible source of information. But, more importantly, the way in which information is published on the World-Wide Web allows users to interact with that information, thereby making it more dynamic than any other form of publishing the world has ever known.

Nedlac hopes to considerably improve its information distribution through its presence on the World-Wide Web, and also hopes to generate much more feedback on its activities through this medium.

mechanism to publish to whole world almost instantaneously and at very low costWeb not about what you get out of it, but also about what you put into it.extremely focused; reflects this interactivityallows interaction with ideas

in a world characterised by/accustomed to dramatic technological advancesdespite all being blase about radical developments in tech, nothing has every caught the imagination of the world in a tech contextrapidly moved beyond realms of tech showcase into realm of real tangible applications - useful, not just pretty or cute.