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UN Habitat II Conference - participate online now!



United Nations Future Cities Conference - Participate online!

The Habitat II conference, the United Nations summit discussing the 
future of the world's cities, is available to millions via the 
Internet! Apple Computer and Canada's WETV broadcasting are providing 
this virtual Town Hall site to run throughout the conference June 3 to 
14 in Istanbul, Turkey. 

The website is at:  http://habitat.apple.com

The "Participate" area of the website includes:
** Schedule for daily LIVE ONLINE CHATS via IRC with conference 
leaders direct from Istanbul -- use any IRC software and connect to:  
chat.online.apple.com (port 6667) --  if you're new to IRC chat, 
you'll find easy-to-use GlobalChat software for both Windows and Mac 
at:  http://www.qdeck.com/chat/download.html

** MESSAGE BOARDS for discussing the issues
** Daily polls on issues being discussed in Istanbul
** daily coverage of the conference in Quicktime video
** archives of transcripts from the live online chats ....  and lots 
more. 

Input from the message boards and from the live chats will be used by 
WETV to shape their TV coverage, An exciting opportunity to 
participate in this historic event!