Fighting AIDS on the web

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Fighting AIDS on the web

• in the workplace

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WENDY COETZEE Web Content Knowledge Manager
Virtual Services Group (A subsidiary of
Metropolitan, financial services company for
aspirational individuals)
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PHASES OF LIFE

• Birth
• Childhood
• Adulthood
• Retirement
• Death

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FOCUS IS ON LIFE EVENTS

• Our Products
• Our Services
• But also now
• Our web sites
• Our portals

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Phases of Life on www.metropolitan.co.za
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What Do I Get On Site?

• Online statistics, facts, data
• Current medical, legal, corporate, and practical
  information
• News and electronic newsletters
• Counsel

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You Might be Curious, Why This for a Financial
Services Group?

• We have an appropriate product match
• We want to lead other corporates into being
  serious about fighting AIDS

• Social Responsibility
• Information that empowers
• The Doyle Model
• Its part of our serious e-commerce and web
  programme

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"In the fight against AIDS, one of the tools we
need right now is information. It is the one way
we can take this disease as a shared problem.
Information is what this site is about."
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www.redribbon.co.za

• Launched 01 December 1999
• 21 000 hits on launch day
• International visitors e.g. USA, India, USA
• Who uses it? Corporations, HR professionals,
  governmental, research companies, para-statals

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THE PORTAL APPROACH

• Together with SABCOHA we are now focusing on
  fighting AIDS, via the web, in the corporate
  workplace.

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SOBERING FACTS

• Population - 43 million in 1999. (Census)
• Projected growth rate of 2.3 per annum 49
  million by 2005
• NOW INCLUDE AIDS
• 44.3 million by 2005 (Doyle Model - Metropolitan
  Life 1999)
• 3.4 million people in SA infected with the HIV
  virus - end 1999 (SA Press Association April
  2000)
• SAs infection rate is 1 600 people daily (SA
  Medical Council)
• Of the economically active population
• By 2005 - 16 will be HIV positive, 2 full blown
  AIDS (Doyle)
• By 2010 - 18 HIV positive, 3 full blown AIDS
  (Doyle)

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WHY THE WEB?

• Information on the Web is about Dimensions
• No longer just web sites, its about
  information 3D environments
• Not enough to have the pieces of paper
• You need to seek, confirm, drill down, apply

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• An effective Digital Nervous System is like a
  human nervous system it runs throughout the
  organisation, enabling every employee to have
  access to current information to enable them to
  make decisions in their area of business.
• Gordon Frazer, Microsoft SA

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USA spent more than 35 billion on intranets
last 12 month period. Expected to spend more than
83 billion by 2003 Smart Business
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AIDS IS A NEW DISEASE
We need to fight it in a new way
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