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About The UBP: Our Mission

The primary purpose of the UBP is to maintain a comprehensive listing of African-diaspora-related Web pages at a central site.

Business and Networking

A secondary purpose of the UBP is to encourage development of categories and topics which are not currently available. The UBP facilitates this development by serving as a resource by which one can avoid duplication of effort.

History

The UBP was conceived and created by Alou Macalou and Larry Ward, two members of Georgia Tech's Black Graduate Student Association's (BGSA) Information Resources and Technology committee. Alou, Larry, and former BGSA president Derrick Brown launched The UBP as a commercial product of the company Black Graduate Student Infosystems, Inc., (BGSI) in January 1996.

Derrick Brown solely assumed the joint responsibilities of Webmaster and Editor-in-Chief in August 1998. He is actively seeking literary and technical talent to relieve himself of both roles so that he can concentrate on his responsibilities as the full-time director of KnowledgeBase, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and empowerment through computers and information technology.

Benefits

Some possible benefits of our project:

• It can serve as a means of connecting people with interests in the African diaspora.
• It offers a more global perspective of the African diaspora - both of its people and their cultures.
• It can be used as an educational resource (in conjunction with traditional media such as books, etc.) by students and teachers in high schools and colleges.
• It can be a tool for getting new (and old) users quickly accustomed to the World Wide Web and the Internet.