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UN Habitat II Conference - participate online now!
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Subject: UN Habitat II Conference - participate online now!
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From: Leslie McKay <lemckay@concentric.net>
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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 09:46:21 -0700
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Article: 12872 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Newsgroups: alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Organization: Concentric Internet Services
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!