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- 011.10 Latina American and Caribbean
- By Daniel Pimienta*
- <ULAT-DP%FRMOP11.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
-
- The most important regional news since the first edition was
- the launch of the Peruvian network (RCP: Red Cientifica Peruana).
- The RCP serves users from all type of research centers from
- universities to NGO's (Non Governmental Organizations). The
- development is the result of a coordinated effort involving
- national and international Organizations under the "passionate"
- lead of Jose Soriano (Union Latina's REDALC Sub Director at that
- time).
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- Venezuela is approaching the point of the return of years of
- people and technical investments.
-
- In Ecuador, where coexist at least three projects, the ECUANEX
- network formal launch was announced, last February, in a project
- counting with UNDP and APC supports. CONUEP played a key role
- on behalf universities. An association was formalized (INTERCOM)
- where more than 20 NGO's and universities join. For more
- information write directly to Sally Burch, INTERCOM@ECUANEX.EC.
- There is also a private initiative leaded by Banco del Pacifico
- to organize and offer to the research community a BITNET node. A
- national project (REYCIT), where CONACYT is the counterpart,
- completed a feasibility study funded by BID and the Central Bank
- of Ecuador. The last one is described in detail hereafter by one
- of the involved consultant. Please note that all the
- abbreviations are explained hereafter.
-
- CUNET (Caribbean Universities Network) is an effort to help
- Caribbean islands (so far mainly the English speaking one's)
- start their network growth. The project is leaded by CRACIN (Red
- Academica Cientifica y de Investigacion Nacional de Puerto Rico)
- Director's Roberto Loran and receives support from OAS
- (Organization of American States). The current status is to
- connect by reverse charged (to OAS) daily dial-up connections
- PC based UUCP nodes. CUNET's administration reports a fast
- traffic growth at various nodes.
-
- Dominican Republic network, REDID (Red de Intercambio para el
- desarrollo), following the same "REDALC methodology" used in
- Peru, is entering the last step before launch and the effort
- presents some original characteristics (full and free support
- from national private Telecommunication companies, first full
- scale use of the state of the art PC based user interface MULBRI)
- which makes the experiment specially interesting.
-
- Isoc No3 will get in more details about the last two items in a
- special Caribbean Basin issue (Huracan, Cunet and Redid).
-
- The Latin American group formed during the Rio de Janeiro
- workshop met in Buenos Aires in January, then in Mexico in
- February, and is planning to meet again in Puerto Rico in
- April. No public feed-back have been made available yet.
-
-
- SPECIAL REPORT ON LATIN AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION LISTS OR NEWSGROUPS
-
- This is a synthesis of the outstanding work offered by Pedro
- Saizar (pedro@ohstpy.bitnet) which details are obtainable by
- sending the command GET LISTS GUIDE to LISTSERV@HARVARDA.
-
- The pieces of information collected from the mentioned source
- have been completed or slightly modified, in rare occasions.
- However, it have not been thoroughly controlled. Please send
- additions or corrections directly to Pedro Saizar. The main
- language used is generally Spanish. Only public offers are
- listed.
-
- A) PROFESSIONALS
-
- TOPIC REGION/COUNTRY LIST NAME NODE NAME
- Artificial Intel. Latin America IAMEX-L TECMTYVM.bitnet
- Astronomy Latin America ASTR-O BRFAPESP.bitnet
- Networks Latin America LACWE-L BRFAPESP.bitnet
- Networks Latin America LACWS-L BRFAPESP.bitnet
- Networks Latin America REDALC FRMOP11.bitnet
- Networks Latin America SIRIAC-L ENLACE.bitnet
- Computer Science Brazil COMP-NET PSP.FAPESP.ANSP.BR
- Computer Science Chile CHILENET UCHCEVM.bitnet
- Health Science Latin America, USA PANET-L YALEVM.bitnet
- Informatics Latin America ESLAI FORWISS.UNI-PASSAU.DE
- Physics Latin America FISICA-L BRUFMG.bitnet
- Psychology The Americas IAPSY-L ALBNYVM1.bitnet
- Social Science Quebec RQSS UQUEBEC.bitnet
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-
- B) CULTURAL
-
- TOPIC LIST NAME NODE NAME
- Argentina Argentina asterix.eng.buffalo.edu
- Bolivia Llajat readingj@cerf.net
- Brazil Bras-net Non-European users:
- bras-net@lanai.cs.ucla.edu
- Brazil Bras-net European users: bras-net@uk.ac.man.cs
- Brazil UFRJ-NCEN ufrj.bitnet
- Brazil .BR domain brfapesp.bitnet
- Brazil Padais pccvm.bitnet
- Caribbean Caribe enlace.bitnet
- Caribbean USENET News soc.culture.caribbean
- Central Amer. CentAm-L ubvm.bitnet
- Chile Chile-l purccvm.bitnet
- Colombia Colext andescol.bitnet
- Dominican Rep. Sdomingo enlace.bitnet
- Ecuador Ecuador ners6k1.ncsu.edu
- Ibero-America Iberian_issues bitnic.bitnet
- Latin America LASNET emx.utexas.edu
- Latin America USENET News soc.culture.latin-america
- Mexico Mexico-l tecmtyvm.bitnet
- Mexico Mexico-d tecmtyvm.bitnet
- Mexico Mexico vmtecmex.bitnet
- Panama Panama lamar.colostate.edu
- Peru Peru athena.mit.edu
- Puerto Rico Boriken enlace.bitnet
- Uruguay Uruguay db.toronto.edu
- USA MCRL-L msu.bitnet
- Venezuela Venezuela athena.mit.edu
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- * Union Latina
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