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From: jms@netcom.COM (John Schonholtz)
Newsgroups: comp.society.development
Subject: Re: Who is on the net?
Message-ID: <1991May23.211452.17937@netcom.COM>
Date: 23 May 91 21:14:52 GMT
References: <1991May23.115550.966@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
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In article <1991May23.115550.966@darwin.ntu.edu.au> b_duke@darwin.ntu.edu.au (Brian Duke) writes:
>How many sites in real developing countries are on the net. Is this group
>going to be another case of the well developed pontificating about the less
>developed? Or can they join in? Of course there will be expatriates from 
>developing countries working in developed countries. It used to be said 
>that there were more Nigerian Computer Scientists in the US than Nigeria. 
>They did not want to go home. Is this still the case? Does the net reach
>Africa, 

The net reaches South Africa.  It doesn't seem to make it anywhere else
on that continent, at least not yet.

>South America, PNG, Fiji, South East Asia etc? I hear there are 
>even difficulties with E-mail to some European countries such as Greece.

In Latin America, the United Nations has a project "huracan" to help put 
together low-cost mail networks throughout the region.  Ted Hope in Costa 
Rica will probably be posting here eventually, and he can tell you more
than I (at the moment he seems to be swamped with work).  The goal is to
have the net in every country in the region.
-- 
John Schonholtz						jms@netcom.com
I have no idea what the operating system of the yearr 2001 will be like,
but I do know that it will be called UNIX.