Xref: utzoo news.announce.newgroups:1075 news.groups:31188 comp.society:801 comp.ai:9089 soc.culture.african:2770 soc.culture.china:48567 soc.culture.indian:48759 soc.culture.latin-america:4274 sci.econ:2690 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bounce-back From: reiter@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ehud Reiter) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.society,comp.ai,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.latin-america,sci.econ Subject: 2nd CFV and VOTE ACK: comp.society.development Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 04:50:21 GMT Sender: tale@cs.rpi.edu Followup-To: poster Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland Lines: 260 Approved: tale@rpi.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu proposed: comp.society.development (computers in developing countries) -- Second (and final) CALL FOR VOTES on creating this newsgroup -- MASS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of votes received through 21 April 1991 HOW TO VOTE: Reply to this message (or otherwise e-mail reiter@castle.ed.ac.uk) with one of the following subject lines: yes for comp.society.development no for comp.society.development Please use this exact wording, if possible, as that enables vote-counting to be partially automated. The body of the message will be ignored, and can be blank. Votes must be e-mailed, they cannot be posted. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY VOTED, PLEASE DO NOT VOTE AGAIN! All votes must be *received* by me by 23:59GMT on 8 May 1991. ********************************************************************* DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED NEWSGROUP: NAME: comp.society.development MODERATED: No CHARTER: This group will discuss applications of computer technology in developing countries. Topics might include: - specific stories of successful (and unsuccessful) uses of computers in developing countries - general discussion of the difficulties and advantages of using computers in developing countries - comments from developing country computer users on their experiences - requests from developing country computer users for computer-related advice - news about communications, especially networks and electronic mail, to and within developing countries - updates from aid agencies, volunteer groups and others active in developing countries on computer-related projects underway or under consideration - discussions about appropriate hardware and software - general news about books, seminars, conferences, and projects General discussions of Third World politics or economics will be avoided. **************************************************************************** MASS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF VOTES RECEIVED AS OF 21 APRIL 1991. International e-mail to the UK does occasionally get lost, so people who have voted from other countries may wish to double-check that their name appears on the following list. <206 votes received - sorted in alphabetic order on From: field> A.J.S.Santiago@ed A.ROCHAFILHO Ajit Sanzgiri Akinwale A Akinpelu Alan Bundy Alayne McGregor Alberto Cueto Alexander Holt Alvaro Fernandes Anand Patwardhan Andres Angela Lamb Anselm Lingnau Anu Vedantham 21371 Arne Henrik Juul Ashok Gupta Bal Prasad Barnabas Chirombo Beverly Erlebacher Bob Weissman Brian Duke C J A Da Silva CABRALES@edu.unt.acs.vaxb Carl Rigney Cesar Galindo-Legaria Charleen Bunjiovianna Stoner Charlotte A Weise Chip Rosenthal Chris Williams Chris.Reynolds Christian Haider Craig E. Ward D Zanother Daniel Jacobson Darrell J. Parsons Dave V. Schaller David Neal Miller David Robinson Diana Bental Dick Dunn Dickson Lukose Don Ewart Don Porter Ed Robertson Ed Y Hiheta Edgardo Richards Edison H.W. Wong Edwin Blake Eelco Vriezekolk Fabio Silva Gary Capell Gary McGraw Geoff C Wing Geoffrey Wiginton Gilford T. Hapanyengwi Glenn Gould Glenn M Cooley Grant (G.E.)Martin Hector A Geffner Hector Ruben Cordero-Guzman Helen Lowe Henk Dieu Honore TCHUENKAM Howard Beck Ines de Castro Dutra JOSERP@earn.buenga J_GUTIERREZ@edu.clu.upr.upr1 Jack Campin Jamey Graham Javier S. Pareja Jim Clarke Jim Roche Jim.Blythe@edu.cmu.cs.sp.gs13 Joe Levy John B. Melby John Martin John Schonholtz Jon (Chris) Connelly Jon Harder Jon Sreekanth Kanchana Kanchanasut Kang Sun Karl Tombre Kathleen Callaway [strandh] Keiji Kanazawa Kevin Chambers Kim DeVaughn Kishore Krshna Krishna E. Bera Lauri Lynn Laurie White Leonard Peirce Lord of Dyved Louiqa Raschid Luciano Serafini M.SANVICENTE MACAYA BRIAN R Mandy Haggith Marc Picquendar Marcos Ortiz Maria R. Saenz Martin Newmark Mats Wiren Mert Alberts Michael C. Berch Michael Carr Michael H. Kalantar Michael Rothstein Michael Travers Mike Ess Mike Pelletier Miren Carranza Mr Paul Philbrow Neil Rickert News Administrator @ Wolves Nigel Allen Norman Yarvin Pat Healey Paul Stravers Ralf Allrutz <"/S=allrutz/OU=wega/OU=tat/O=physik/PRMD=uni-tuebingen/ADMD= /"@uk.ac.ean> Raman R Ramayya Kumar Randall Atkinson Randy Haynes Rene G. Rodriguez Rich Thomson Richard H. Miller Rick Innis Robert Dale Robert Newstadt Robert.Biddle@nz.ac.vuw.comp Roberto Hexsel Romain Shaw S. Karthik Scott Fertig Sheila Glasbey Sheila Rock (PhD 90) Simon Harriss Stanier A Stefan Merten Stephen P Crago Steve Fligelstone Subodh Bapat Subrata Kumar Das TIMO HARMO (FAC. OF SOC. SCI, U OF HELSINKI) Teresa Anderson Theodore Hope Timothy VanFosson Tom Fitzgerald Tom Jaskiewicz Upasana Venu Dasigi Vikram Sethi Vincent J Guinto W.A.Simon Werner Uhrig Y.O. Busia Ya-Xiang Yuan Yossarian Yggy King Young-il Choo ajayshah (Ajay Shah) bleier (Alan Bleier) bmayoh@dk.aau.daimi cts@uucp.dragon deidrie@au.edu.uts.socs dm@uk.ac.ed.aipna douglas@com.boeing.atc gideon@edu.utexas.cs goehring@edu.purdue.cc.mentor gopichand koganti gregorio Varvakis hnkst2@edu.pitt.lis.idis (labgsa Hanhwe -han- Kim) ilham@edu.mit jane@uk.ac.ed.aipna jhess@edu.uci.oac.orion johnl@uk.ac.ed.aipna jrocha@edu.sunysb.sbcs kk@ed.aipna larsaam@no.unit.idt (Lars Aasmund Maehle) lbeltran@edu.berkeley.ced (Liliana Beltran) londono@edu.wvnet.wvu.cerc.pendleton maotse@edu.MIT.ATHENA marthae (Martha Escobar) mdgp@uk.ac.ukc othomas@edu.mit.athena paul@uk.ac.ed.aipna pbhyg!pacbell!jachano@com.pacbell piak@ed.aifh raja@edu.msu.cps raul@com.intel.meso reiter@uk.ac.ed.aipna rw@uk.ac.ed.castle sahni@no.uib.ii.eik shadrach todd shem@york.minster sirothe@com.PacBell.srv (Sheldon Rothenberg) sklarew@edu.upenn.seas.eniac (Dann Sklarew) spock!winston@net.uu.uunet steven@uk.ac.ed.cogsci thomas ikuenobe trefftz@edu.msu.egr.frith urquijo@nl.philips.prl valderru@fr.irit vdasigi@edu.wright.cs.valhalla (Venu Dasigi) wyatt (Bill Wyatt) xanadu!thelema!STella@net.uu.uunet -- Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@edinburgh.ac.uk)