Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!ccut!twics!jefu From: jefu@twics.co.jp (Jeffrey Shapard) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Hello Kenya? Message-ID: <4953@twics.co.jp> Date: 15 Jun 91 14:02:46 GMT References: <9106130256.AA00948@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan Lines: 30 According to the bible (John S Quarterman's _The Matrix_), "the Insitute for Global Communications (IGC), parent of Peacenet, is setting up a system in Nairobi, Kenya". These folks now have sites in the US, Canada, UK, Sweden, Nicaraugua, Ecuador, Brazil, Oz, and the USSR under the coalition name Association for Progressive Communications. They use uucp connections to give global access to local areas, and even bear the freight for some of their more budget-strapped members. While some of the regional sites may have links into whatever internets they have going there, their main IGC/Peacenet/ECONET machine in Menlo Park CA USA does uucp links to various US hubs, has a network subscription through the DASnet forwarding service (which can get you to telex and fax as well), and recently got a direct Internet connection. I haven't heard anything more about the Kenya site, but I guess is may have something to do with the folks in Nairobi getting their side of things ready. Another possibility... Once upon a time the notorious cowboy netrider Colorado Dave Hughes talked about an associate of his who was putting up some sort of packet radio BBS network in the Kenyan bush. I wonder whatever became of that? --jefu * Jeffrey Shapard "Connectivity * * Connect-activist and Operations Director, TWICS, Tokyo is our biz..." *