The African Virtual University, sponsored by the World Bank, is providing engineering students the opportunity to take courses in electrical engineering from a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The professor's stateside course is videotaped and transmitted via satellite to participating institutions in Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The professor is available by telephone three times a week to answer questions that the on-site instructor can't answer, or for which clarification is needed. Eventually, the African Virtual U. will be available in more than 40 countries on the African continent. More on that in the next issue.
Internet directories have an advantage over CD-ROM version of being free and easily updated.
Now we have a way to speed up the search process and simultaneously fill out search forms for InfoSpace, Four11 and Switchboard. For more complex searches you might want access to paid services. This is both a caution and a request. My most recent copy of my bookmark file was six months old, and most of the best stuff was not there. My request is designed to help in that recovery.