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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 04:30:02 PST
From: Packet-Radio Mailing List and Newsgroup <packet-radio@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Packet-Radio Digest V94 #18
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Packet-Radio Digest Tue, 22 Feb 94 Volume 94 : Issue 18
Today's Topics:
GONDWANA Introduction
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Date: 21 Feb 94 13:19:44 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: GONDWANA Introduction
To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
Dear netters,
I am very pleased to introduce my-self and our GONDWANA project devoted --
for its major objective -- to develop electronic networing among African
scientists especially working in the fields of sustainable agriculture and
forestry.
I have a scientifical background in ecology (Ph. D. in Sciences at the
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and extensive experience in
computer & telecommunication.
=46or the launching of the GONDWANA project, I will travel through N-E, E & =
S
Africa with my girl friend Petra Vandecasteele (reporter) for one year.
What do we need from you?
One of the challenges of the expedition is to stay in permanent contact
through electronic mail to prepare our agenda and appointments from country
to country. We also plan to install an individual modem connection to
local research, commercial or fido network (or international to our
university in Belgium).
Thus we need your assistance in this project.
Please have a look at the multi purposes of the expedition which are
described below.
If you feel interested in collaborating with us, please send your comments
or suggestions by e-mail directly to me (godard@bota.ucl.ac.be) and I will
have the pleasure to forward you the description of the whole project in
details.
Regards,
Pol Godard, GONDWANA Project
GONDWANA : Supercontinent of the Southern Hemisphere
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Some people like to accomplish incredible challenges for going the whole
way of their dreams. Our challenge is to establish a communication line
from 51=B0 lattitude North down to 35=B0 lattitude South, from Belgium to th=
e
Good Hope Cape.
Communication by road & trail network
-------------------------------------
To accomplish the very ends of our dream, we have chosen to drive the
zigzagging roads and trails and go at encounter the African continent. The
idea is to physically connect 30 countries together through our itinerary.
We want to realise a global project independent from the moving political
situations occurring among the neglected continent. Following the rhythm
of the encounters along the road, we will take the time to feel the
relations between local people and their fragile environment. Instead of
flying to Africa in only a couple of hours, we prefer to experience its
North-South transition in nature and culture.
Communication technologies for building global African networks
---------------------------------------------------------------
Beyond the challenge of the expedition, the main goal of the Gondwana
project is to contribute to global networking in Africa to allow people to
choose their development alternatives. To achieve this objective, we will
bring information and affordable computerised telecommunication tools right
to African decision makers, scientists and field workers. The selection of
these key-people is in progress among international organisations,
universities, research centres, NGO's and private companies involved in a
sound developmental scheme.
Communication by images via the media
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=46ollowing the tracks of the two famous agricultural and botanical
explorations of Dr. Homer L. Shantz, first in 1919 and secondly in 1956, we
will rephotograph as many as possible the original sites; three series -
separated by 37 years each - of the same picture from the same view point
and angle to illustrate the evolution of the plant cover over two thirds of
a century.
Images will be the reflection of our travel emotions and our deep respect
towards the beauty of nature and the culture of indigenous African life.
Through the artist's eye, nature will become sculpture, and the unusual,
evidence.
This is the way we have chosen to diffuse Gondwana's values and messages.
By establishing regular communication with our European partners along the
trip, the media will indeed be able to make people share the on-going
adventure and project results.
Please, send a personal e-mail to the authors to get the whole detail projec=
t.
*********************************
The GONDWANA team,
Paul Godard & Petra Vandecasteele.
godard@bota.ucl.ac.be
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End of Packet-Radio Digest V94 #18
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