International singing star Celine Dion and former Who band leader Pete Townsend are among the entertainers scheduled to perform at "NetAid," a global concert organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Internet giant Cisco Systems to help raise public awareness and generate financial support to tackle poverty in developing countries. At a telephone news conference Thursday, UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown and Cisco Executive Vice President Don Listwin were on hand to announce the lineup of scheduled performers, which include Bush, The Corrs, Counting Crows, Eurythmics, Jewel, Wyclef Jean with Bono, Michael Kamen and Orchestra, George Michael, Jimmy Page and Robbie Williams. The 9 October concerts will take place simultaneously in the United States, London and Geneva and be broadcast on the radio, television and via the Internet. The NetAid site, http://www.netaid.org, where the concerts can be viewed, will be launched 8 September and contain information developed by UNDP on world poverty, which affects more than 1.3 billion people. Mr. Brown told the teleconference that with extreme poverty on the rise, the existing tools and resources to combat the world's worst poverty are clearly insufficient. "NetAid will be a lasting weapon that will help mobilize people that were not involved previously, and create new virtual communities that will work together to eradicate extreme poverty," he said.        (Source : UN Press Release12/08//99)