NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/misc/activism/progress/5247

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Subject: What is IGC (Institute for Global Communications)? (autopost)
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IGC is the organization which maintains PeaceNet and EcoNet (see the
postings describing them) as well as two smaller networks, ConflictNet
(conflict resolution) and HomeoNet. Their blurb --

    The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is a division of the
    Tides Foundation, a nonprofit corporation under section 501(c)(3)
    of the IRS code. All donations to IGC are tax-deductible, and can
    be made through the Tides Foundation at 1388 Sutter Street, 10th
    Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109.

IGC is a (founding) member of the Association for Progressive
Communications (APC), with over 11,000 worldwide members ranging from
individual users, to peace/justice/human-rights/ecology/etc
organizations, to NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations). Enclosed
below is an article about the APC from IGC's monthly "NetNews,"
followed by a listing of the other APC member "nodes." At "@igc.org"
for (internet) email to the addresses given for those.

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IGC's address:

    IGC
    18 De Boom Street
    San Francisco, CA 94107
    [phone]
    [phone] fax

Or by Email:

    --------------------------------------------
    To send email to an IGC (EG PeaceNet or
    Econet) account "abc" just substitute "abc"
    for "peacenet" in the following:

    Internet: [e-mail]

    Bitnet:    cdp!peacenet%labrea@stanford
    UUCP:      uunet!pyramid!cdp!peacenet
    DASNet:    [DE3MIR]peacenet
    --------------------------------------------

    For general questions/help, substitute
        "support" for "peacenet"

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APC News
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IGC regards international cooperation and partnership as essential in
addressing peace and environmental problems.  Towards these goals, IGC
was a founding member of the Association for Progressive Communications
(APC) which now includes low-cost computer networks in eight countries.
Jeremy Mortimer is APC's technical coordinator and reports here on APC's
involvement in international networking.

"As activists all over the world discover the possibilities of
electronic communications, computer networks spring up to serve them.
Usually run by the activist communities themselves, these networks
initially serve a small group of organisations, or a small geographic
area, but soon develop a need to be involved in international
communications.

"The APC has developed a role in connecting these systems. We hope in
some cases that they will eventually become new members of the APC. In
other cases, we simply work with them to ensure that users of both
networks have access to all the information and connections they need in
their work.  Sometimes this means setting up e-mail exchange only; other
times the connection involves shared conferences as well.

"The London-based Poptel system (GeoNet) serves hundreds of
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) all over the world, and a link to
APC systems was an early priority.  London-based APC member GreenNet
developed the software to accomplish both an e-mail and conference
exchange -- not an easy task as the systems are substantially different.
You will find a list of conferences imported from GeoNet in the
'conferences' conference, under the "GeoNet" topic.

"Networks are springing up quickly around Latin America. In addition to
the Brazilian and Nicaraguan APC nodes (Alternex and Nicarao,
respectively), the United Nations Development Program has been
sponsoring the creation of systems in Costa Rica (Huracan), Ecuador
(Ecuanex) and Bolivia (Unbol).  (See the 'intlaccess' conference, where
there is a topic for each country, for more information about each of
these networks.)  The Instituto del Tercer Mundo in Uruguay, which has
run an NGO network (CHASQUE) for the last 18 months, has recently
applied for APC membership.  For more information about CHASQUE, send
e-mail to 'chasque'.

"Single-user bulletin-board systems (BBSs) based on the popular 'Fido'
program are such a common first step for activist groups that we have
developed software to allow APC systems to talk to them. Fido
connections are in place at GreenNet (UK) and Web (Canada), and are
being installed at other APC nodes including IGC. Fido systems as far
afield as Estonia, Czechoslovakia and several African countries are now
connected.

"The German political network, ComLink, which runs a type of BBS
software called Zerberus, has also applied to join the APC. A link
between our networks and theirs, which includes shared conferences, has
been in place for several months.  (See NetNews, October 1990.)  In
addition, the Moscow-based International Foundation for the Survival &
Development of Humanity will soon open GlasNet, our future APC partner
in the Soviet Union."

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Topic 23        IGC NetNews - May 1991 v5 n4    Response  3 of  8
jillaine
netnews  4:48 pm  May 20, 1991
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APC Partner Networks
====================

Alternex
IBASE
Rua Vicente de Souza 29
22251 Rio de Janiero BRAZIL
[phone]
fax: [phone]
e-mail:  ax!suporte

ComLink*
Moorkamp 46
D-3000 Hannover 1
GERMANY
[phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]

FredsNaetet/PeaceNet Sweden
Timmermansgraen 4
S-116 27 Stockholm SWEDEN
[phone]
e-mail: pns!support

GlasNet*
International Foundation
Ulitsa Vesnina
Moscow 121002 USSR
[phone]
fax: [phone]
e-mail:  glas!support

GreenNet
25 Downham Road
London N1 5AA GREAT BRITAIN
[phone]
fax: [phone]
e-mail: gn!support

IGC Networks
PeaceNet/EcoNet
18 De Boom Street
San Francisco, CA  94107
[phone]
fax: [phone]
e-mail: support

Nicarao
CRIES
Iglesia Carmen
1 cuadra al lago
Apartado 3516
Managua, NICARAGUA
[phone] or 25 1 27
fax: [phone]
e-mail: ni!ayuda

Pegasus Networks/EarthNet
PO Box 424
Byron Bay
2481 New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
[phone]
fax: +61  (66) 8 56926
e-mail:  peg!support

Web
401 Richmond Street West
Suite 104
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
[phone]
fax: [phone]
e-mail:  web!spider

*APC Membership Pending

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Appendix: Interpreting an IGC "header"

Example:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Topic 6 ISAAC ASIMOV: IS ANYONE LISTENING?
peb     peb.population  12:35 pm  Jan  4, 1991
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The article ("topic") has the subject "ISAAC ASIMOV: IS ANYONE
LISTENING?" and was posted to the newsgroup ("conference")
"peb.population" by someone at the "peb" account on PeaceNet.