Foundation Networks & Development (FUNREDES) is pleased to announce its
information system,
accessible from its internet site (funredes.org) located in Dominican Republic.
CONTENT
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More than 200 original documents related to:
- The history of Research Networks in the South, mainly the Caribbean and
Latin America.
- Methodological considerations about the development of networks in the
South (including results
of the REDALC project).
- Information about some national networks (Peru, Dominican Rep. and Haiti)
- The impact of New Information and Communication Technologies (NTIC) on
development.
- Several FUNREDES projects looking for financial support.
KEYWORDS
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FUNREDES, REDALC, MULBRI, RCP, REDID, REHRED, CARIBBEAN, LATIN AMERICA,
DOMINICAN REP.
NGO, NETWORKS, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, METHODOLOGY
ACCESS
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The access is designed to be provided in 3 languages: spanish, english and
french.
However, only the spanish one is completed at that time.
The gopher is accessible in english. Most of the accessible documents are in
various languages.
TARGET
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- Networkers.
- International Cooperation agencies.
- Researchers on NTICs, Development, Caribbean or Latin America.
ORGANIZATION
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A 3-layers scheme with FTP/GOPHER/WWW.
1\ FTP: Primary documents (Annex 1 shows naming convention)
Anonymous FTP access ftp://ftp.funredes.org/pub
FTP-mail supported
2\ GOPHER: gopher://gopher.funredes.org:70
. Institution
. Projects
. Publications
. Conferences
. Services
3\ WORLD WIDE WEB: http://www.funredes.org (or http://funredes.org)\
Spanish only at that time. Lynx supported.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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SUN Corp. (Caracas) has offered the server free of charge.
TRICOM SA (Dominican Rep.) has facilitated the Internet channel free of charge.
-Casual users, please do not hesitate to comment your visit.
-Webmasters, feel free to link if you consider it is worth.
-Everybody, feel free to forward the announcement.
Cordiales saludos del equipo de FUNREDES
Daniel Pimienta, Pablo Liendo, Yacine Khelladi, Pablo Nunez, Christian Hellfrich
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ANEX: FTP NAMING CONVENTION
THEMES
methodology METO socio economical vision SOCI
usuers USUA informacion ressources RINF
information INFO education EDUC
interface IFAZ health SALU
networks REDS gender GENR
democraty DEMO Other NTIC TEIC
tecnol. watch VIGI Virtual Comunities COMU
global GLOB Telecom (relation) TELE
documentalist BIBL training FORM
REGIONS/COUNTRIES
Dominican DO World wide WW
Haiti HT Caribbean CA
Venezuela VE Africa AF
Latin America AL Asia AS
LA and Caribbean AC Eeastern Europe EE
ISO code XX
LANGUAGES
English E Spanish C French F
Italian I Other O
YEAR from 1988 to 1996
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Daniel Pimienta Tel.(Home):+1 809 686 2804 (*)
President FUNREDES Tel. (Ofc):+1 809 682 7060 (*)
Networks and Development Foundation Fax: +1 809 689 3388
C/O BCLE Casa de Francia pimienta@funredes.org
Calle Conde esq. Las Damas http://www.funredes.org
PO BOX 2972 http://www.funredes.org/pimienta
Santo Domingo (Republica Dominicana) (*) Tape recorder
Seminarios INTERNET Para Profesionales Tel.: +1 809 685 0059 (*)
Servicios de disenho de WWW http://www.funredes.org/internet
Otros servicios INTERNET contact@funredes.org
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