Message-ID: <mailto:9506261925.AA17798@nywork2.undp.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 15:25:00 -0400 From: Lorraine Waitman <mailto:lwaitman@NYWORK2.UNDP.ORG> Subject: United Nations Web Site (fwd) To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
The following Press release concerning the opening of the United Nations World Wide Web site is being forwarded to INT-LAW, AFRICA-L, DEVEL-L, GOVDOC-L, MODELUN, AMNESTY and ECONET. We apologize for any duplication. Please pass this information to any colleagues interested in the United Nations and its activities.
> Lorraine Waitman
> (mailto:lwaitman@undp.org)
> Data Base Manager
> Dag Hammarskjold Library
> United Nations
> New York, New York
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
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> > PI/900
> > 22 June 1995
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> > UNITED NATIONS 'HOME PAGE' ON WORLD WIDE WEB LAUNCHED
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> > New User-Friendly Electronic Tool Will Be
> > Gateway to Wealth of United Nations Knowledge
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> > A new electronic service on the World Wide Web called the United Nations
> > "home page" will be launched on the Internet on 26 June, to coincide with
> > the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Charter. This service will
> > be an indispensable tool for Internet users and a user-friendly gateway to
> > a wealth of United Nations information.
> >
> > With the "home page", a simple click on an icon can lead the user to such
> > items as a photograph of the current Secretary-General and a biographical
> > note about him, or those of his predecessors; the latest United Nations
> > news, documents and highlights of events and proceedings; or a pictorial
> > history of the Organization, with over 100 downloadable photographs.
> >
> > A user could also take an electronic tour of the main meeting rooms and
> > selected art at Headquarters in New York and get basic information about
> > the United Nations and its specialized agencies. Information on United
> > Nations conferences is also available as are documents, publications and
> > promotional material on the Organization, including material on the
> > commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations which is
> > being observed this year.
> >
> > The United Nations home page will also include links to the gopher of the
> > United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the Internet as well as Web
> > sites of other members of the United Nations family of organizations. In
> > addition, there will be a link with the multimedia catalogue of the exhibit
> > "Dialogues of Peace", which will be inaugurated on 5 July at the Palais des
> > Nations in Geneva as part of the fiftieth anniversary commemorative events.
> >
> > Selected photographs of the 26 June San Francisco commemorative ceremony
> > marking the signing of the Charter will be transmitted electronically from
> > the west coast to New York and posted on the Web the same day. Anyone with
> > an Internet connection and a World Wide Web browsing programme can access
> > the new United Nations "home page" at this address: http://www.un.org
> >
> > The Department of Public Information (DPI) has worked closely with the
> > Electronic Services Division of the Office of Conference and Support
> > Services
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> > (more)
> > - 2 - Press Release PI/900
> > 22 June 1995
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> > to develop the Web "home page". United Nations news and documents
> > currently on the UNDP gopher will continue to be available on the gopher
> > system developed by the DPI with the Division for Administrative and
> > Information Services of the UNDP.
> >
> > All those interested are invited to a demonstration of the World Wide Web
> > pilot project at 4 p.m. on 27 June at the Dag Hammarskjold Library
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> > Auditorium.
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