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Consultative Council
ACNS 3144 - ACC12 Media Release No 14 - 24 September 2002

Official Anglican Web Portal launched by the Anglican Consultative Council

[Hong Kong - ACNS] A major expansion of the Anglican Communion web site,
published by the Anglican Communion Office, London, was announced on 23rd
September at the 12th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council. The web
site will become the Official Anglican Web Portal and be a comprehensive
source for news, photos, information, and educational resources and have
links to other official Anglican web sites around the world.

ACC members gave the news of the Anglican Web Portal a rousing welcome and
enthusiastic endorsement. The Revd Canon Emmanuel Adekola, Director of
Communication for the Church of Nigeria, was also present and offered a
powerpoint explanation of CHONACONet, the latest development in 'global
private telecommunications.'

The new portal will be available soon at www.anglicancommunion.org and is
expected to improve the way information about the life and work of Anglicans
is accessed on the worldwide web. Members and leaders in the Church, the
public and the media will be able to use the portal to locate or request
information about the worldwide Anglican Communion and its 38 primarily
national Provinces with 70 million members.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, who presided at the portal
launch, was praised and thanked by the Revd Canon Oge Beauvoir of the Parish
of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York, as a model for Anglican leaders by
the way he has used email and the web to stay in touch with issues and
colleagues during his extensive travel and global ministry. Canon Beauvoir
said, "He has been a model by his avid and even experimental use of the
internet as a tool for research and intercommunication in his own ministry."

Canon James M Rosenthal, Director of Communications for the Anglican
Communion, said, "The web portal will allow us to provide much more than web
pages. It will be the hub of a computer networking system on the Internet
that will offer online collaboration tools for church related committees and
staff; private email based discussion groups for bishops and other leaders;
and an enlarged online shop for books and materials about the life and
mission of Anglicans."

This telecommunications initiative is being funded by a two year grant from
the Parish of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City, in response to
requests and consultations from and with web specialists and communication
officers from Anglican Provinces and Dioceses, many who already are
developing web sites in their parts of the world. They have cited the need
for a coordinated and comprehensive web portal, a "Window on the Web," to
represent and serve the Anglican Communion.

The Trinity Grants program has supported innovative telecommunications
ministries since 1985, recognizing before many others, the potential for
using emerging technologies to further the Gospel and the mission and
ministry of the Church, according to the Revd James G Callaway Jr, Trinity
Parish Deputy for Grants.

The Revd Clement W K Lee from the Office of Communication in the Episcopal
Church, USA, and an adjunct staff member of the Anglican Communion Office is
convener of the working group developing the new portal. The group, doing
most of its work online, includes Canon James Rosenthal and Mr Christopher
Took, from the Anglican Communion Office, the Revd Dr Joan Butler Ford
(California), Dr Dennis Johnson (Washington, DC), Mr Tom Lopez (New Mexico),
Mr John Allen (New York), the Revd Canon Emmanuel Adekola (Abuja, Nigeria),
and the Revd Peter Moore (Gilgandra, Australia).

ENDS

(From the ACC News Team: Dan England, Margaret Rodgers, James Rosenthal)

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