Web Presence
Chapter 14
The Emergent business

Proof of concept

In every country there are many towns, each dealing with a different variation of the type of cancer the country is concerned with. In each of these towns there are many different buildings, where each building is dealing with a particular aspect of the variation. In each of these buildings, there are meeting rooms set aside to concentrate upon particular finer details.

Patients, friends and relatives of patients, physicians, consultants, trial treatment clinicians, oncologists and drug company researchers can enter this virtual world; visiting any country and town that is of specific interest to them. They can go into the buildings and enter the meeting rooms to join discussion groups, discover where the latest information can be found; hear about the latest research and developments, learn of current and proposed treatment trials.

It is of course a people space. There is no information on this site. It is a place for people to meet others who have a similar interest in a particular niche area of knowledge, where they can share experiences and information with each other.

Of particular interest: all activity and organisation happens on the client side. There is no server side database. There are very few Web pages. The whole system is run by the users themselves.