Walnut Creek CA USA, Cyprus and Austria, August 4, 2009

iCohere Inc. of Walnut Creek CA and Adalta Limited of Cyprus are pleased to announce their recent strategic partnership, with an aim to optimizing and promoting iCohere's innovative and versatile online collaboration and eLearning technologies for international markets, focused on Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Since 2001 iCohere has been a leading innovator of online learning, knowledge communities and large-scale online events. Adalta, with background in culture, entertainment and creative industries, will use iCohere's products to expand its capabilities in experience-driven knowledge sharing systems.

The iCohere/Adalta partnership announced its first confirmed contract today with UNSSC, (United Nations System Staff College, Torino, Italy). Adalta will install and operate a UN Leaders Online Community of Practice to facilitate collaborative learning and knowledge sharing amongst senior executives of various United Nations Agencies worldwide.

“Our partnership with Adalta is another example of how iCohere can help leverage social media tools for worldwide benefit,” says Pascal Kaplan,Ph.D., CEO/Founder of iCohere. “Adalta's strategy fits perfectly with ours, to foster global community building and enable large-scale collaborative online events. We are excited about supporting the UNSSC community and look forward to many more innovative projects with Adalta.”

“The iCohere team shares our aspirations to encourage and support experience-driven knowledge sharing, collaborative creativity and intercultural dialogue that transcends borders and galvanizes group dynamic and transcultural partnership on a global scale,” says Robert Riezouw, Adalta's Managing Director. “We are particularly excited by the prospect of working together with iCohere to develop culturally sensitive knowledge partnerships in emerging markets such as the Arab Gulf States.”

About iCohere:

iCohere offers state-of-the-art collaboration software solutions for associations, nonprofits and government agencies. These include Communities of Practice with Social Networking; Virtual Conferences & Events; eLearning Courses; and Organizational Change Initiatives.

Visit iCohere at www.icohere.com
Contact Lance Simon at (202) 870-6146, email lance@icohere.com

About Adalta:

Adalta is an international business development company primarily in the culture, knowledge, lifestyle and creative industries. Adalta has extensive experience and strong affiliations throughout Europe as well as in Asia and the Persian Gulf region.

Visit Adalta at www.adalta.com
Contact Robert Riezouw at +43-699-1696-6900, email r.riezouw@adalta.com