1.	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

2.	Information Resources
Many subjects and formats available
•	Documents
•	Graphics, video & audio
•	Software (free & shareware)
•	Newspapers
•	Directories
•	Library catalogues & databases
•	Books & journals
•	Junk

3.	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)

4.	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

5. Client-Server Architecture
WWW is based on a cleint/server architecture 

Give me file x

Remote Server

Desktop Client

A computer elsewhere
on the Internet holding
information

Here it is

Your desktop computer

Request made using http

6.	Locating Internet Resources
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Standard address format for Internet resources URL indicates: 
•	Method of access
•	Location

For example:
http://www.isiswomen.org
http://www.jca.apc.org/aworc/index.html

7.	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

8.	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.

9.	Teaching/Distance Learning

WWW is used widely for teaching. 
This example describes one teaching, 
research and administrative initiative

http://www.talisman.hw.ac.uk/about/general.html

10.	Women are using the Web to Teach and to support Educators
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/updates.html
http://women.or.kr/
http://www.lynda.com

11.	Providing Information Resources

•	Library catalogues
•	Information gateways
•	Electronic gateways
•	News services
•	Online support

12.	Searching for Information

Subject catalogues 
and sophisticated 
search engines can help 
in finding information 
using the WWW.

13.	Women-focused Search Engines
http://wwwomen.com 
http://femina.cybergrrl.com 

14.	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

15.	Women are also using the Web
for Social Advocacy
	
http://womensnet.za.org/
http://www.mediawatch.ca/frames.htm
www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/

16.	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. 

17.	Commerce

Increasingly used for sales, 
marketing and online services

http://www.women.com