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From: hart@ubc-ean.UUCP (Roger Hart)
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Subject: Re: What Canadian Network Debate ????
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 15:13:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 15:13:14 1986
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IPATT is the InterProvincial Association for Telematics and Telidon.
Michel Umbriaco at Tele-Universite is the Chairman, and Dave
Godfrey (U.Vic) and Hans Kratz (Alberta Ministry) are the Vice-Chiarmen.

The next debate is due to be held at the University of Waterloo
on 3rd April.  Others are planned for Alberta, Atlantic Canada
and Quebec.

The educational community consists of much more than the
large universities.  Very few colleges and even fewer schools
have access to any network.   Good networking facilities consists
of much more than just sending mail, and some of the gateways
(to say nothing of the protocols) leave a great deal to be desired.

Incidentally - the Secretary of State awarded a grant of $3000,000
last year to an outfit called the Canadian Society for the Study
of Higher Education to study the feasibility of establishing
a Canadian Higher Education Research Network.  I think will more
awareness amongst non-computer science educators, that money
could have been much better spent.