Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!topgun.dspo.gov!lanl!cmcl2!phri!ccnysci!patth From: patth@ccnysci.UUCP (Patt Haring) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Global Cultural Prototype Message-ID: <3366@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 8 Oct 89 04:47:52 GMT Reply-To: GLOBALCP@UVVM.BITNET (Melcir Erksine-Richmond) Followup-To: GLOBALCP@UVVM.BITNET (Melcir Erksine-Richmond) Organization: City College Of New York Lines: 788 email to: Melcir Erksine-Richmond SAMPLE ISSUE ** "DEVELOPING A GLOBAL CULTURAL ************************************ ** ** * **************************************************** * ** ** ***** ***** *** ** *** ** ** ** ***** ****** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ****** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ***** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ****** ** ** ** *** ** *** ** ** ** ****** * ** * * ** * * Electronic Journal of GlobalCP Vol. 1, No. 1 - October, 1989 * * ******************************** FOR 21ST CENTURY LIVING" ********** TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE: L'Amour du Cosmos: 21st Century Sustainable-habitat Global Model ..... 1 NEWS CO-OP: Unitex: United Nations Information Technology Exchange .......... 7 Kidsnet - A Global Network for Children .......... 10 FUTURE ISSUES .......... 11 HOW TO ASSIST GlobalCP'S PROJECTS .......... 12 SUBSCRIPTION TO Proto-Type Journal & MEMBERSHIP TO GlobalCP .......... 12 *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ L'AMOUR DU COSMOS - 21ST CENTURY SUSTAINABLE-HABITAT GLOBAL MODEL Melcir R. Erskine-Richmond | A global sustainable-habitat social-design model - a consortium of | | world university-cities, linked to the planet by topsail schooner | | and interactive high-tech telecast and on-line computer electronic | | network - to model an eco-healthy and aesthetic prototype of the | | highest socio-cultural order, for 21st Century planetary living. | What if our social, political and spiritual leaders should decide to unite to help Earth achieve a super-culture? - Currently, do national policies, plus the varying world-views of international religious doctrines and traditional ethnic customs, unintentionally block humankind from achieving this milestone turning-point in global societal development? Can we bridge these philosophical gulfs, in order to globalize the planet? That many third-world nations today suffer deep-rooted socio-economic con- straints is at least in part due to historic concepts of nationhood deter- mined by econo-political or geographic boundaries, rather than demographic- ally, based on true socio-cultural homogeneity. Catering nationally to the needs of previously unrelated ethnic and cultural groups creates complex and costly governmental structures. Additional difficulties arise in both the education and communications sectors, when such fragmented national composi- tion is further constrained through a multiplicity of regional minority lan- guages and/or dialects (eg. Nigeria, with a population of some 90 millions, accommodates some 250 languages; and Papua New Guinea, homeland to some 4 million people, struggles with over 700 local languages), or through geo- graphic isolation. Can we hope to achieve a universally acceptable world peace, or restructure our global biosphere, without addressing these and other issues in global communications and values-unification? Should contemporary societal goals continue to encourage regional ethnocentricity, with its cultural and political provincialism, when this practice disem- powers so many minorities from participating in discussion on the escalating global and space problems which increasingly demand united planetary action? As we strive to globalize our society, rapid communications (electronic and linguistic) becomes an essential planetary facilitator for focussing our efforts to determine the most desirable future goals. Achievement of this objective is currently thwarted by the ongoing use of several thousand languages around the world. However, the mother tongue for approximately 45-50% of earth's people is one of only five languages - Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi. A further 15% speak German, Japanese, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, French, and Italian (1). In our move toward global- isation of our common heritage (2), should compulsory education curricula, by the year 2000, be taught in only the world's major spoken and written languages (English, Mandarin, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Swahili and Italian)? Might we further determine to provide, by some agreed future date, free language education for the world's populace in only the then five major languages? Ethnic continuity of lan- guage, folklore, music, costume, history and cultural traditions, should rest in the hands of cultural groups, as a social rallying focus. For formal discussion of global issues, a single lingua franca must be selected. A SHARED VISION?: Should we espouse a collective vision as a planetary social goal? What, for example, would constitute a genuine paradise, utopia or 'heaven-on-Earth'? Would such a goal provide a universally desirable objective for humanity? Can humanity even begin to envisage the potentialities of such a fulfilling life-system in this present culturally and politically fragmented tumultuous world society? - If we do agree to interweave not only our ancient ethnic individuality, but also our resources, races and religions, will we achieve spatial unity and a futuristic planetary culture, able to maturely address significant world issues, both positive and negative? To assist this pro- cess, might we not wish to offer through the United Nations an award system of access to international or world citizenship for international and world service? To achieve this inspiring trans-ethnic goal, we must set aside many of our treasured but increasingly anachronistic traditions and cultural assump- tions, including that of small socio-cultural groups being necessarily 'sig- nificant'. While many ethnic minority groups are not only aesthetically and anthropologically 'beautiful', and live in habitat-sustaining ways, in har- mony with their local eco-system constraints, their colourful individuality still creates obvious local problems - such as an inability to outgrow cus- toms and world-views based on assumption; and lifestyles, languages and regional customs which are unviable in a global society; plus being restric- ted by those group processes which limit the social evolution of either or both the group and its individual members. Faced with an escalating fullscale planetary emergency in our biosphere, we need to rapidly attain sustainable-habitat global values. In terms of this crisis, 'small' has come to mean 'weak', being politically and economically unviable. While our diverse global cultural heritage should not be subsumed to political pressure, nor local linguistic birthright or ethnic identity sacrificed to policy-making, survival of our life-giving biosphere and of earth's faunal and floral species biodiversity must assume first priority, and become our reason for voluntarily choosing to adopt national and inter- national group processes. Resolution of the weighty and emotional issues attending this major redirection of societal values and norms will require the concentrated application of world thinkers and activists, to synergize and bring to fruition this profoundly urgent, but exhaustive goal. The need for an enlightened and acceptable global lifestyle prototype is our greatest immediate human goal, being a vital component of planetary ecolog- ical security and of a lasting and socially viable global peace. Such a prototype will provide an acceptable role-model for humanity's emulation. Towards this agenda, the immediate goal for the remainder of this 20TH CENTURY is simply, to make Earth energy-efficient, by enacting powerful legislation to redress our apallingly abused energy-systems. These issues include the need to: a) premeditate mankind's propensity for divided reaction on certain issues (eg. security, ethics, safety, and other matters) by mediating super- science's dilemmas (eg. ensure space-for-peace; resolve the clean energy v. nuclear fission/fusion debate; ban thermonuclear weaponry and other war machinery stock-piling; legalise personal patient/doctor discretion in all medical decisions; define precise pre-natal foetal/infant devel- opmental stages and health priorities, etc); b) implement policy to reverse the devastation of our Biosphere (depletion of the ozone-layer; the greenhouse effect; global weather-change; acid- rain; water-poisoning; whole-forest destruction; species loss; soil erosion); c) establish efficient control-management and recycling of garbage and toxic waste; d) rebalance the global economy, by redressing workload/wealth-distribution and gender/race/age/generation inequities. e) develop and administer social reform programs to ensure the basic rights of all people to clean water, adequate food, shelter, clothing, freedom, safety, sanitation, health-care, and education; f) determine and advise ecologically-sound global lifestyle patterns. GLOBAL PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE HABITABILITY OF LIFE ON EARTH WILL CREATE AN ENORMOUS GROWTH-SURGE OF NEW POST-INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: GlobalCP believes that the determination of this ecologically-sound global lifestyle pattern must focus on the use and development of ONLY non-crucial sustainable/renewable energies - such as harnessing natural earth, air, fire and water powers (including shared ocean-thermal energy conversion), and redirecting free electricity and solar energy from space via satellites and geostationary platforms. As well, we must develop a global off-peak shared energy-grid (which will tap existing clean-power sources, plus create and interlink a new network of small-scale distributed tropical and sub-tropical solar energy power units), to reduce supply costs and enable presently low energy-yield, remote zones of the earth's inhabited surface (such as deserts, mountains, islands, and wastelands), to enjoy major energy-boosts, and thereby to become more habitable. To prevent continuing environmental degradation from terminating the possi- bility for continued habitability of life on Earth, we must urgently init- iate massive reafforestation projects, and redress the widespread problems of soil erosion, water-poisoning, weather-alteration, and multi-species habitat loss, which inexpert environment management practices, such as un- restricted logging, slash-burning, industrial emissions, and toxic waste pollution have perpetrated upon the planet's surface. We must undertake vast basic plankton and foodchain-restocking programs, both oceanographically and in land-based aquaculture projects, as commercial enterprises and in international aid packages to the damaged foodchains of many 3rd world nations. Development of a planetwide evolutionary and ecologically-responsible life- style, with self-challenging futuristic multi-stage educational curricula, is necessarily the prime objective for global and space security, and for the continuing survival of Earth's lifeforms in the coming Age. This global plan necessitates the dedicated single-minded support of not only the United Nations and its many Agencies, but also of all Commonwealths of Nations, Unions, Republics and single-nation states - both privileged members of aff- luent post-industrial super-nation groups, and struggling 3rd world nations concerned with overcoming a multitude of internal problems. This goal also offers enormous potential for future growth and development, an issue of vital and positive interest to multi-national corporations and institutes. Since the resources accumulated by these bodies comprise a vast and increas- ing share of the planet's body of wealth, their decision to allocate size- able research and development funds to this global project will inject enor- mous power for worldwide biosphere restoration, increased energy-efficiency, planetary lifestyle improvement, future trade opportunities, plus business growth and development, into the launching of this prototype. SIX 21ST CENTURY PLANETARY CITIES, PLUS OCEANGOING CITY-IN-MINIATURE: We invite representatives of concerned governmental and corporate bodies to assist in creating an expanding research and development fund for this global cultural prototype [GlobalCP] through their local professional and work environments. Regular institutional and personal contribution to this fund is advocated, with the goal of enabling development of a consortium of six multicultural international University-Cities, as models dedicated to the creation of a planetary lifestyle prototype. These models will be interlinked by oceangoing schooner/tall ship and by interactive telecom- munications network, to transmit the emerging lifestyle aesthetics of this 21st Century plan to the rest of the planet. First phase support-facility plans are for a International Development Com- mittee [IDC] to fund and equip a Global Electronic Network [GEN] - a high- technology interactive telecommunications and multi-disciplinary Distance Education system. This in turn will provide public awareness and promotion for development of the more advanced stages of the project, including fund- ing for the oceangoing schooner. The six cities will be built adjoining navigable waters - in countries both north and south of the equator. Each will be organized and administrated on international principles [perhaps under the aegis of the United Nations]. Participation of individuals will be as global citizens, rather than on national basis. Each city - as part of its highly futuristic orientation - will utilize top levels of expertise for conceptual modelling, strategic planning, and prototype development and testing. It will access all levels of educational facilities and networking, employing 21st Century concepts in community and environmental integration modelling. Each will incorporate advanced concepts in precise site-locating, both con- temporary, including remote sensing, surveying and engineering, and as re- cently recovered from ancient sites - and based upon a harmony with local magnetic energies (the genius locii), plus the seasonal pattern of the con- stellational heavens [Universe], passing directly overhead each site. In this regard, it is now known that the city-planners of many ancient cultures conducted a sophisticated site-analysis prior to the establishment of their cities. Thus the circular astronomical design of each global city will be unique, its plan reflecting the varying stellar configurations passing over- head, according to its latitude. Contemporary international research reveals that such design-principles produce extraordinarily beneficial harmonic and aesthetic lifestyle qualities, plus improved functionality, in communities so founded. (More will be said of this in later issues of this Journal.) THE OCEANGOING CITY/SCHOONER: Another function of GlobalCP's I D Committee is to provide a suitable ocean- going schooner, to transport personnel and equipment between port cities, and act as a floating promotional and educational conference facility and University-of-the-Seas, audio-visually equipped to demonstrate the concepts and research programs of each model city to the world. The formation of links between GlobalCP, its international tall-ship and the many Sail Train- ing associations, Education-at-Sea programs, maritime corporations, charter groups and other seafaring bodies worldwide is encouraged, through the ap- pointment of representatives to GlobalCP by the administrators and commit- tees of these bodies. The vessel will be equipped to meet international ocean-sailing regulations, and to function as a travelling permanent academic community - a university /city in miniature. Developed as a technologically competent floating campus /conference center, it will have capacity for live international telecast transmission and interactive communications [by televised satellite relay, radio-telephone, on-line computer networking, and other media], with the many GlobalCP Network nodes [operating at the six land-sites, and at various points around the planet, including both ports and inland centres], as sup- port groups emerge. Ease of international movement of peoples, and of a range of equipment, are intrinsic factors in development of these cities, which will be established adjacent navigable waters, and with accessibility to airports, existing or planned. These details correctly resolved, the movement of students and trainers through the cities can be readily facilit- ated. The six land-contributing national GlobalCP committees will liaise with the groups of other countries, to contribute funds, expertise and resources to develop each model city, plus the international schooner and communications network. Ongoing development and training will be the product of shared expertise. BENEFITS OF 21ST CENTURY GLOBAL-CITY MODELS: The cities, schooner and support network will function as an ecologically balanced and aesthetic cohesive unit, developed to further world under- standing and cooperation for peace, and to encourage non-partisan resolution of international and global problems. The environment created for this emerging matrix will thus be highly conducive to the funding and establish- ment of a diverse range of future research projects. Additionally, this international, apolitical and non-sectarian setting will create a superb showcase for demonstrating new eco-tech developments and prototypes. Whether for proposed enterprises destined for international commercial marketing or non-financial global sharing, this prototype habitat of the future will assist a ready market acceptance and nurturance of new ecologically-safe products and/or services by the wider global community. Thus the chief function of the GlobalCP Network is to provide a purposeful and practical vehicle for peaceful global interaction, to serve as an ideal model for planetwide sharing and harmonious cooperation - on projects which would otherwise prove beyond the scope of individual nations to complete and launch, or which require the combined expertise of the world's leading thinkers to fulfill. The project is designed to stimulate new creative out- lets for the concepts of the United Nations and its Agencies, and for mul- tinational government Consortiums, including the British Commonwealth, and the various governmental and non-governmental alliances, plus international tourism, trade and cultural associations. HOW TO CONTRIBUTE: The project seeks official recognition and funding, with a minimum of direc- tion, from the world's nations and commercial enterprises. The immediate goal is to promote this concept through its' efficient and professional introduction to top-level national and international management, in both public and private sectors. In this, your sponsorship will prove invalu- able. May we therefore cordially invite you to table your proposed areas of participation for your next business agenda, and to liaise with us on your progress? Local sub-committees will form from such initial efforts, and from these will emerge the later national and international committees. To assist expansion of this international University-Cities Consortium and Network, national and regional development committees [NDCs and RDCs] are being established, both in land-contributing countries and in other partic- ipating nations, around the globe. Their specific task is to fund, secure and develop suitable lands, oceangoing schooner, eco-technical and communic- ations support systems, and appropriate and aesthetic city design at each site. At all levels - governmental, institutional, corporate and individual - funding, equipment, expertise, services and assistance are required. Your ongoing support is invaluable. Telecommunications contact and data-flow are being established via computer networks, as funding is made available. Technical assistance and financial contributions around the world, including provision of office space, furn- ishings, and equipment, etc., are urgently needed. GlobalCP needs the pro- fessional and technical expertise of environmental/urban designers, astron- omers, surveyors, eco-technical agronomers, engineers, scientists, inventors analysts, maritime specialists, lecturers, visionaries, artists, writers, photographers, resource personnel, camera-crews, graphics teams, networkers and fundraisers, general staff, etc., to contribute expertise, enterprise, and support, in the various aspects of this task (the contributor list being as varied as is high human endeavour). It is hoped the infrastructure for these model cities will emerge by the year 2000, to celebrate the advent of an age of globalized enlightenment. (1) Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, 1986, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, pp.viii-ix. (2) World Commission Our Common Future, 1987, Oxford University Press, on Environment & Oxford. Development *** +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* * * + + * N E W S C O - O P * + + * * *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ GlobalCP has received information on the work of compatible projects. The following two international projects promote concepts which bring us closer together as a global community. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - - = UNITEX CONFERENCE DISTRIBUTION TO UNIVERSITY NETWORKS = - - =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= UNITEX supplies and disseminates information obtained from United Nations mainframe databases and related sources. It is a major advocate for the dis- tribution of 'raw', uncensored and un-edited material obtained from official UN sources and is playing a key role in the acquisition and distribution of UN press Releases, UN Radio News, UN International News, UNICEF Press Rel- eases, Electronic Publishing (DIPA) and related UNICEF documents and World- wide Disaster News and Relief Plans from UNDRONET. The UNITEX conference was established in 1987, on microcomputer distributed networks and had a limited distribution in the United States, Canada and Australia. Today UNITEX maintains approximately 12 to 16 direct links at any given time. UNITEX was originally part of the "Socially Conscious 7" and the only USA link in the group, which included 3 from Canada and 3 from Australia. The issues that UNITEX presents are many and are dependent on current poli- tical topics of interest and timely international news. The key areas are: Human Rights, Disarmament, 3rd World and Developing Countries, World Peace Issues, Space News/NASA and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Worldwide Disaster News & Relief Programs, Technology Transfer and Information Exchange, Envir- onment, World Health Organization Reports (International health), Reports from the General Assembly and World Bank. MISC.HEADLINES.UNITEX: A SUMMARY DESCRIPTION UNITEX distributes and disseminates current International News and United Nations News, UN Press Releases and other UN related information obtained from specific UN agencies and departments, such as the UN Department of Pub- lic Information (DPI), UNICEF, World Health Organization and various UN data-bases in New York, Vienna and Geneva. UNITEX also focuses on timely news and information gathered from other sources, such as, governmental and scientific databases (NASA, Dep't. of Energy, etc), various newsletters, as well as environmental and ecological information, vis a vis the UN Environ- mental Program. It also reports on the UN Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Committee (UNISPACE), International Treaties and Boundary Issues, Interna- tional Health and Medical Issues, Laws of the Sea and other information that affects our universe and reality and that can help foster global understand- ing. The news and information sources for much of the material that UNITEX dist- ributes are direct transcriptions from UN delegates, as well as senior members of the respective international embassies addressing the General As- sembly or discussions from UN Special Sessions. This serves as a 'real' interactive news media when the user replies or responses are made by government officials, UN delegates, International political leaders, scien- tists, etc, as they sometimes do on this system or other remote systems which are linked to this newsgroup/conference. UNITEX: AN INTRODUCTION and OVERVIEW The project undertaken by UNITEX falls within the guidelines and categor- ies of several main United Nations Organizations, such as UNDP, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNCTAD, UN DPI and UNEP. UNITEX has demonstrated a technology for information and technology transfer which has resulted in the building of a truly global network. Direct computer links to its host system have grown from seven to several thousand. Readership, end-users and participants have grown from less than a hundred to over one million in less than two years. The pilot project was financed exclusively from personal and private funds made available by the principal founders of UNITEX, Dr. James Waldron and Ms.Dorothy Nicklus, as well as donations and contributions from members. UNITEX provides the technology and gateways for an interactive international news forum, in addition to the dissemination of large amounts of UN public information throughout the United States, Canada, Western Europe, the Pacific Rim and Australia. This information consists of UN Press Releases, UNICEF information, Disaster Relief Alerts from UNDRONET, news and informa- tion on environmental and ecological issues, Disarmament, Human Rights, Decolonization, safe uses of nuclear energy, papers and articles from UN Special Committees, abstracts and summaries from the General Assembly, etc, etc. UNITEX provides information to schools, colleges and universities which total more than 12,000 sites. Additionally, UNITEX connects to public and private microcomputer-based net- works incorporating distributed or wide-area network technology. UNITEX also receives and distributes large volumes of environmental data and news concerning the biosphere, through its connections and gateways to major eco- logy and environmental networks and newsletters, via electronic data feeds from environmental organizations, such as Audobon, WindEnergy, PeaceNet, GreenPeace, and various university newsletters. All this information is categorized and added to its regular online conference database. UNITEX has expanded exponentially in the two years since the project was first conceived. It gathers and disseminate UN public information and news on a daily time schedule (300,000+ bytes or characters per week consisting of, in part, UN Press Releases, UNICEF News, UN disaster relief alerts, articles and papers presented at the UN General Assembly, papers from UN Special Committees) to connected systems worldwide. This information is delivered via high speed modems (19000+ baud, using state-of-the art data compression algorithms and the latest protocols, such as Zmodem and Sealink. On the technical end, UNITEX has been involved directly in the ongoing de- velopment of proprietary error-correcting and restartable protocols - that are ideally suited for long distance transmissions over low quality phone lines. Other outgrowths of this R&D effort have resulted in new electronic- mail standards for conferencing software, duplicate message elimination and customized gateway software interfaces to bridge the gap between disparate systems and so-called non-compatible networks. At the present time, UNITEX reaches well over one million computer users every day!. Remote and private networks can be interfaced transparently into public ac- cess systems while maintaining individual autonomy for corporate or special- ized data and information handling. In summary, the UNITEX pilot project is an unequivocal success. A one hundred page document can be sent from New York to Argentina in less than two minutes (an original, not a facsimile) *without* the need for human intervention, with automatic scheduling and matrix-routing techniques utilizing the latest liner programming algorithms for distribution efficiency and maximizing data throughput, machine-to- machine transfers, inversion of the standard information transfer process (delivery of information to the end-user in-place of seeking out and acquir- ing the data) and several other specialized functions that go far beyond the commercial email systems in use today. UNITEX has, by utilizing technology which is low cost and widely available, been able to develop a network which includes not only the developed coun- tries, but the developing countries as well. It has demonstrated ongoing North-South information and technology exchange with increasing country participation. This outgrowth from what originally started as a communic- ations 'experiment' and vehicle for various NGO organizations has now attracted the attention of individual governments. This, it is hoped, facil- itates understanding between countries. UNITEX supports the Vienna Program of Action and hopes for increasing participation, perhaps on a more formal level, by sharing, teaching, and demonstratng the results of its research, and by participating in and/or assisting the Inter-governmental Committee in the integration of this research and the implementation for its development. Apart from its main goal as technology and information provider, UNITEX helps to make the United Nations' goals and efforts more widely known, adds to international understanding and reduces misunderstandings. International news and new technological developments occurring in both industrialized and developing nations is transmitted, distributed and disseminated by UNITEX to all direct private and public links, via distributed network and wide- area network technology. UNITEX is an independent agency and is not part of the United Nations. It is *not* a conventional news service with 'clip' data, but a Global Network that gathers information on behalf of the United Nations. The UNITEX confer- ence is moderated by Patt Haring. Most sites that receive this newsgroup can post or enter a message directly, causing the readnews software to auto- matically route postings to the moderator's e-mail address. If this is not the case, postings can be sent directly to: patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu or patth@ccnysci.BITNET. Their host network system in Hoboken, NJ can be reached independently at 201/ 795-0733. The parameters for that system are 1200/2400/9600 PEP/8,N 1. To be connected, callers give their name and address, pick a password (4 or more characters) and they are then registered users and can use the system at the local host level. UNITEX CONTACTS: Dr. James Waldron, Director waldron@newport.rutgers.edu Dorothy Nicklus, Associate Director rutgers!rubbs!107!501!Dororthy_Nicklus Patt Haring, UseNet UNITEX Moderator patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu or patth@ccnysci.BITNET Michael Keyles, UNITEX Mailing List Administrator Michael.Keyles@rubbs.uucp or keyles@newport.rutgers.edu *** = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = - - = JOINKIDS@PITTVMS.BITNET - A Global Network for Children = - - = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = Businesses and universities have come to appreciate the value of electronic data networks. The inexpensive technology which underlies these networks could be of equal value for pre-college education. It is proposed to provide this facility to the world's children by establishing a global network for the use of children and teachers in grades K-12. Reading and writing provides us with the means to communicate on a global level. Electronic networks provide an immediacy to global communication and allow us to sort the resulting flow of information. This lets us direct our remarks to an appropriate audience and gain access to information on any subject we may seek. If we begin to teach reading and writing in conjunction with the use of an electronic network, we will provide children with a new global outlook as we teach them the skills needed to utilize it. Children who grow up with this outlook will learn that many human problems are universal and that solu- tions to these problems may often be found through global communication and cooperation. They will learn that knowledge is distributed around the world and that this knowledge exists to be shared within the human community. Simultaneously they will master the skills which will permit them to distribute and organize the vast store of information that will be available via electronic media. The technology required to set up a global children's network already exists. It is in the national interest of all developed and developing nations to extend and apply this technology. The establishment of a children's network would give an international scope to these efforts. It would provide a focus for technological development and for resolving the problems of language, standards, etc. that inevitably arise in international communications. The first steps toward establishing a global children's network are being taken by a group which may be reached via KIDSNET mailing list. If you would like to join this group, the email address is: JOINKIDS@PITTVMS.BITNET or for further information, send email to: Robert D. Carlitz using this email path: RDC@vms.cis.pitt.edu From a BITNET site, use: RDC@PITTVMS.BITNET Those on gateway-linked systems should write to: RDC@PITTVMS.BITNET + *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ * * + FUTURE ISSUES + * * + In future issues we will: + * . Launch a directory (and plans for a database) for worldwide land- * + based and marine/maritime operations, and other items of interest + * to the development of the project (Send in your contributions now!) * + . Establish a Mailroom for readers' correspondence + * . Provide a Calendar of forthcoming international events and items * + of interest to subscribers * * . Discuss Volunteer projects + + . Publish contributor works * * . Establish regular sections and columns on topics of on-going + + interest, including information and news on the projects of other * * bodies which are compatible with the concepts of GlobalCP * + . Publish computer art, provided it lies within the parameters of + * the project * + + *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ + HOW TO ASSIST GLOBALCP'S PROJECTS: To assist the growth of its project, GlobalCP urges you to communicate, with an outline of your concepts, curriculum vitae, suggested support, etc. to: GlobalCP Network Development Project C% University of Victoria Chapter - World Future Society S.U. Bldg. University of Victoria P.O. Box 1700 VICTORIA, V8W 2Y2, BC, CANADA FAX: Canada [604] 721-8653 E-Mail (Bitnet): GLOBALCP@UVVM.BITNET (Do not add ".bitnet" if on bitnet) or (Unix) : globalcp@uvcw.UVic.ca ** (Please note, the operating-system for Unix is case-sensitive, so mail ** ** will not arrive at destination unless addressed with upper and lower ** ** case reproduction of all letters *exactly* as given.) ** = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = PROTO-TYPE welcomes contributions, suggestions, designs and sketches; photo- graphs and information concerning experimental cities around the world; prototype development of eco-tech inventions; lifestyles; directories of relevant e-mail links; and other evolutionary aspects of proposed 21st Century living. You are invited to contribute suitable, articles, papers, news, photographs, illustrations, etc., for possible inclusion. Recommended length for articles is 3000-6000 words; for news items, 1000-1200 words. 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OTHER INFORMATION ......................................................... ........................................................................... =========================================================================== ENDFILE PROTOTYPE Vol. 1/No. 1, October, 1989 SAMPLE ISSUE RETURN ADDRESS: Melcir Erskine-Richmond BITNET: GLOBALCP@UVVM * UNIX: globalcp@uvcw.UVic.ca POSTAL: GlobalCP C% U. Vic. Chapter - World Future Society S. U. Bldg. University of Victoria P.O. BOX 1700 VICTORIA, B.C., V8W 2Y2 CANADA FAX: 604-721-8653 | TEL: 604-721-4763 ========================================================================= If we plan collectively *NOW* for a healthy and sustainable global bio- SYSTEM IN THE 21ST CENTURY, WE CAN STILL ACHIEVE THIS GOAL. Acknowledge-To: -- Patt Haring | United Nations | Did u read patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | Information | misc.headlines.unitex patth@ccnysci.BITNET | Transfer Exchange | today? -=- Every child smiles in the same language. -=-