This is an excellent case of how internet technology has been used to offer better service at lower prices. Most will simply use the net as a communication tool, both internally and externally. If we take any company it has its own universe of general news and information needs. No individual newspaper could really satisfy the needs of any one company. But on the net companies can create their own newspaper.
Individual users go out there surfing for news and information.
As they find material which they believe may be of interest to their colleagues, they can post this to a facility which takes all the headlines and makes them accessible to everyone in the company. Negroponte is right. The IDC, a research market leader, predicts internet commerce in SA will be worth R30 billion by 2000. People who use the new technology well will find it brings enormous gains in productivity. People who don't use it, will, in general, find themselves being left behind.