UNESCO's Free Software Portal at http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft includes a virtual laboratory toolkit that was developed with the help of ICTP staff member Clement Onime and consulting scientist Enrique Canessa. The kit provides person-to-person and person-to-equipment communication tools to enable scientists to create or participate in a virtual laboratory. For additional information or copies of the CD-ROM toolkit, contact canessae@ictp.it or onime@ictp.it.