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AN ELECTRONIC village - interactive website - was set up in July, run by the European Agency for the Development of Vocational Training. Virtual buildings include the newsagents, where you can learn about what's new on the site, future conferences and chats. The library, where you can download free publications, search for websites, access databases, order publications - and post your own book reviews. In the listserver row are forms to fill out requesting further information, or you can send in a piece of research here to send to the global email list. speakers corner is, as it sounds, an opinion forum; here you can read and post messages.
The community centre brings people in the field of vocational training together; add your name and areas of interest. If you need extra software to take full advantage of the site head for the sofware house. The conference centre will hold virtual conferences several times a year, and you can find out about calls for research papers for conferences in the real world. There are other sites in the village, but at this point we got a raging thirst and headed for the pub. This is a place for live chat, in net-speak Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The village welcomes visitors and residents; to become a resident you have to register via a link from the front page (www.trainingvillage.gr).
We think this site has some great ideas and it is readable - regular readers will know that not all European sites are intelligible - but the design is very poor indeed. Check out the doors that open when you pass your mouse over them; the doornames are indecipherable and the doors do not close.
The European Review's favourite website of the moment. Chock full of stories, bang up to date, well written. Not much to do with Europe or trade unions (and their Clinton clip had nothing to do with football either). Here's a typical headline: Shock as Sun Backs Murdoch's Move for United. And There's Another Surprise - The Times is in Favour of it Too. The site is a little difficult to navigate because the news items come under different headings: news, news flashes, newspaper and news-what-page-am-I-on-now. Can be confusing. What useful and interesting site do you visit that you haven't told us about?
Call 020-8918-7464.
THIS MONTH we present a list of official European websites, comment free. The general EU site is at: http://europa.eu.int
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EU ministries, known as departments generale or DGs are at:
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BIWATER is a British engineering firm with contracts in the third world. Articles have appeared about the company in connection with the Conservative's alleged 'aid for trade' programme, where companies, it was said, won infrastructure contracts in countries that were considering arms imports. So far, the Independent and Private Eye have issued apologies for pieces spotted by libel specialists Peter Carter Ruck. So they can't be true.
Meanwhile, a press release from South African union SAMWU was picked up last year by LabourNet, the international trade union magazine on the internet. It concerned Biwater and the water privatisation programme in South Africa. Lawyers demanded an apology from the website's service provider, GreenNet. However web-master Chris Bailey has taken a stand. LabourNet posted more information on Biwater and their "attempt to censor criticism of its operations." Soon other unions were 'mirroring' the information on their own sites. LabourNet call this campaign 'I'm Spartacus'.
http://www.labournet.net/default.asp
Set your home page to http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and get the headlines, weather, TV guide and lots more as you switch on your browser.
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