tomorrow Saturday, 9 October, three concerts to be held simultaneously in New Jersey, London and Geneva, will launch NetAid. The United Nations is teaming up with the private sector in a "historic partnership" for this Internet project involving the public directly in the fight to eradicate poverty. UNESCO strongly supports the NetAid campaign with its own NetAid website at http://www.unesco.org/netaid. The UNESCO NetAid website provides links to live Internet broadcasts of the concerts. By logging onto http://www.unesco.org/netaid, visitors can also find out how UNESCO helps to alleviate poverty. The site, which is bilingual English/French, features facilities for on-line contributions to individual projects. "Extreme poverty is an affront to human rights, an insult to the dignity and a scar to the identity of the individual," said UNESCO Director General Federico Mayor when he launched UNESCO’s NetAid page. "It is possible today to conquer this scourge". By maintaining its own site among those of the NetAid network launched by UNDP, UNESCO is displaying a wide range of the actions it is undertaking to halt poverty, through education, democracy, science and communication while respecting individuals and their culture. "The NetAid project will demonstrate that the Internet can act as an engine for development," Zephirin Diabre, Associate Director of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), said yesterday during a news conference at UN Headquarters in New York.