The Diversity Channel Outsources Hosting and Support of
Electronic Learning Products to Accenture

Services to be provided through Accenture Learning

WASHINGTON; Jan. 26, 2004 -The Diversity Channel will outsource the hosting and support of The Diversity Channel Now, the company's electronic-learning Web-based diversity-education tool, to Accenture (NYSE: ACN).

The agreement with Accenture will allow The Diversity Channel to concentrate on expanding its proprietary diversity frameworks and improving the diversity solutions it delivers to its customers. Services will be provided through Accenture Learning, a business process outsourcing (BPO) business wholly owned by Accenture, which offers outsourced transformational learning solutions to companies and governments.

"Accenture is widely respected for its strong commitment to the learning market," said Marius Swart, CEO/President of The Diversity Channel. "We look forward to meeting the diversity goals of our top-tier customers and other companies through partnering with world-leading content and technology providers like Accenture."

The Diversity Channel Now provides large organizations with dozens of Web-based e-learning courses, as well as "at your fingertips" resources in areas such as the strategic business impact of diversity, daily diversity interactions, global cross-cultural travel and diversity best practices.

"The Diversity Channel is leading the pack in delivering high-quality diversity training to the marketplace," said Hap Brakeley, president, Accenture Learning. "By focusing on its core strengths, the company will be able to continue creating industry-leading diversity training programs that will help its clients improve employee effectiveness."

About The Diversity Channel
Founded in 2000, The Diversity Channel, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, helps today's organizations respond sensitively and strategically to critical diversity issues through scalable, cost-effective, enterprise-wide software and consulting solutions. The company's solutions offer four user-tracks: Diversity Practitioner, Employee, Manager and Executive. The company blends technology, media-rich content, and thought-leading diversity expertise to create unique solutions for top companies and organizations. The Diversity Channel's principal investor is Provender Capital Group, LLC. For more information visit www.thediversitychannel.com.
About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With approximately 86,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$11.8 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2002. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

About Accenture Learning
Accenture Learning delivers superior learning solutions that drive substantial improvements in business outcomes for government and corporate enterprises. Delivering more than 12 million hours of training to more than 500,000 learners globally each year, Accenture Learning is one of the largest learning services providers in the world. Accenture Learning is one of eight BPO businesses wholly-owned by Accenture, which focus on helping businesses and governments achieve higher performance at lower cost.

The Diversity Channel and The Diversity Channel logo are registered trademarks. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright © 2004 The Diversity Channel, Inc. All rights reserved.

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