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GNET: an Archive and Electronic Journal
Toward a Truly Global Network
Computer-mediated communication networks are proliferating and growing rapidly, yet they are not truly global -- they are concentrated in affluent parts of North America, Western Europe, and parts of Asia.
GNET is an archive/journal for documents pertaining to the effort to bring the net to lesser-developed nations and the poorer parts of developed nations. (Net access is better in many "third world" schools than in South-Central Los Angeles). GNET consists of two parts, this archive directory and a moderated discussion.
This archive contains the following:
readme.txt: this file
index.txt: a list of the available files
annc.txt: a description of GNET
ftpmail.txt: instructions for retreiving files via mail for those
without ftp access
In addition to the archive, there is a moderated GNET discussion list.
The list is limited to discussion of the documents in the archive. It
is hoped that document authors will follow this discussion, and update
their documents accordingly. If this happens, the archive will become a
dynamic journal. Monthly mailings will list new papers added to the
archive.
We wish broad participation, with papers from nuts-and-bolts to
visionary. Suitable topics include, but are not restricted to:
low-cost, appropriate-technology networks
satellite and terrestrial packet radio
communication protocols
connection options
host and user software
the current state of global networking
current applications
proposed applications
education in a networked world
education for a networked world
social implications of a global network
economic implications of a global network
politics and funding for a global network
political implications of a global network
free speech on the global network
environmental implications of a global network
directories and lists of people and resources
To submit a document to the archive or subscribe to the moderated
discussion list, send a message to gnet_request@dhvx20.csudh.edu.
Larry Press
ps -- see the subdirectory "vita" for papers on other aspects of
technology in developing nations.
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