1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop What the Internet Offers Communications  Across the country or across the world Information resources and services  On a huge scale  A wide range of subjects  Many formats Publishing  The ability to publish and provide online services

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Information Resources Many subjects and formats available  Documents  Graphics, video & audio  Software (free & shareware)  Newspapers  Directories  Library catalogues & databases  Books & journals  Junk

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Basic Internet Tools Require very basic hardware and have existed for a number of years  Telnet Provides simple text based access to a remote computer  File transfer Allows files to be moved from one computer to another Often called FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop World Wide Web World Wide Web (WWW or Web) Distributed multimedia hypertext system Uses client/server architecture Clients known as browsers - Netscape, Mosaic, IE, Lynx

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Client/Server Architecture WWW is based on a client/server architecture Give me file x Here it is A computer elsewhere on the Internet holding information Desktop Client Remote Server Request made using http Your desktop computer graphics: NNS, Inet98

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Locating Internet Resources Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Standard address format for Internet resources URL indicates: Method of access Location For example:

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Terminology WWW -World Wide Web Distributed multimedia hypertext system HTML-HyperText Markup Language Native language for documents on the WWW HTTP -HyperText Transfer Protocol Set of rules for communication between client & server URL -Uniform Resource Locator Address of an object on the Internet

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Uses of the Web: Research WWW was developed at CERN for particle physicists. Sources of research material and funding are available for researchers, administrators & students.

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Teaching/Distance Learning WWW is used widely for teaching.

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Women are using the Web to teach and to support educators

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Providing Information Resources  Library catalogues  Information gateways  Electronic journals  News services  Online support

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Searching for Information Subject catalogues and sophisticated search engines can help in finding information using the WWW.

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Women-focused Search Engines

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Activism and Advocacy Women, individually and collectively, are using the Web to enhance their social activism by networking with other like-minded women, by publisizing news and information, as well as their analysis of issues affecting women

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Women are using the Web for Social Advocacy

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Group Work and Project Collaboration Together with groupware applications, the Web can also be a space --a virtual office--for people living in different continents and time zones to share and organize files, track projects and timelines, share address books, and conduct meetings.

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop Commerce Increasingly used for sales, marketing and online services

1999 Asian Women's Network Training Workshop How do You Use the Web?