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  News Vol.1 No.(2/3) September 1999

Photo File of the First Annual Conference 
on World-Wide Web Applications 
The Centre for Research in Web-based Applications of the Department of Information 
Studies at the Rand Afrikaans University was the venue for the First Annual Conference on 
World-Wide Web Applications, entitled Preparing for the New Millennium. 

 
RAU Campus, venue of the First Annual Conference on World-Wide Web Applications 

According to the organisers, the Conference was an outstanding success. Not only were the 
papers of an exceptionally high standard, but the Conference also gave opportunity for 
academics, practitioners, students and interest groups to interact and share thoughts and 
opinions on the benefits and problems awaiting an increasingly information-conscious world.

 
Members of the Department of Information Studies, who organised the Conference. Sitting 

in front are Bethan Kuyper, Adeline du Toit, Susan Schmidt, and at the back, Steward 



Masela, Deidré Hendricks, Pieter van Brakel, Andrew Kok, Martie Mearns and Marco Rhim.

Conference speakers and delegates came from far and wide. Delegates were indeed 
privileged to listen to distinguished visitors from overseas as well as local experts. 

 
International speakers who delivered papers photographed here with Prof Pieter van Brakel 
(far right), Chairman of the Department of Information Studies. They are (from the left) Mrs 
Maria Dimou-Zacharova (CERN, Geneve), Dr David Raitt (European Space Agency, The 

Netherlands), Dr Victor Newman (Cranfield University, UK), Mr Byeza Mangena 
(University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo) and Dr Robert Cailliau (CERN, Geneve).

The Conference was sponsored by the following organisations: 

Centre for Research in Web-based Applications (RAU) (www.rau.ac.za/dept/infosci)  
Logical (www.logical.co.za)  
Pic-a-Puter (picputer@global.co.za)  
Radio Sonder Grense (www.rsg.co.za)  
The Dialog Corporation (Metropolis) (www.dialog.com)  

  

   

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