The official World Summit Web site goes live today and organisers are predicting as many as 100 million page views per day during the course of the 12-day conference. Individual visitors to the site are expected to be as high as 2 million per day.
The Johannesburg World Summit Company (Jowsco) and HP jointly produced the new site, www.josummit.com. It aims to provide information for members of the public and conference delegates.
"We have included information on sustainable development, news, entertainment, a timetable of events and results of meetings, " says Thandi Davids, Jowsco communications executive. The site also features delegate information, media information and accommodation and tour company details.
The site is hosted in the US but is mirrored locally.
Jowsco IT executive Mohammed Haffejee says security is a prime concern and he is confident the organisation is more than adequately prepared to deal with the various threats. He expects the "usual" attacks and says constant monitoring is built into the system to prevent these. A lot of the content will be hosted on an intranet for delegates, reducing the external bandwidth requirements.
Content for the site will be managed and published by an HP-developed content management application that includes the ability to host streaming video and audio.
"Since only a fraction of the people interested in the summit`s universal themes of people, planet, prosperity, will be able to attend, the site is intended to provide a central resource for content dissemination and dialogue," says Davids.
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