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011.10 Latina American and Caribbean
By Daniel Pimienta*
<ULAT-DP%FRMOP11.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
The most important regional news since the first edition was
the launch of the Peruvian network (RCP: Red Cientifica Peruana).
The RCP serves users from all type of research centers from
universities to NGO's (Non Governmental Organizations). The
development is the result of a coordinated effort involving
national and international Organizations under the "passionate"
lead of Jose Soriano (Union Latina's REDALC Sub Director at that
time).
Venezuela is approaching the point of the return of years of
people and technical investments.
In Ecuador, where coexist at least three projects, the ECUANEX
network formal launch was announced, last February, in a project
counting with UNDP and APC supports. CONUEP played a key role
on behalf universities. An association was formalized (INTERCOM)
where more than 20 NGO's and universities join. For more
information write directly to Sally Burch, INTERCOM@ECUANEX.EC.
There is also a private initiative leaded by Banco del Pacifico
to organize and offer to the research community a BITNET node. A
national project (REYCIT), where CONACYT is the counterpart,
completed a feasibility study funded by BID and the Central Bank
of Ecuador. The last one is described in detail hereafter by one
of the involved consultant. Please note that all the
abbreviations are explained hereafter.
CUNET (Caribbean Universities Network) is an effort to help
Caribbean islands (so far mainly the English speaking one's)
start their network growth. The project is leaded by CRACIN (Red
Academica Cientifica y de Investigacion Nacional de Puerto Rico)
Director's Roberto Loran and receives support from OAS
(Organization of American States). The current status is to
connect by reverse charged (to OAS) daily dial-up connections
PC based UUCP nodes. CUNET's administration reports a fast
traffic growth at various nodes.
Dominican Republic network, REDID (Red de Intercambio para el
desarrollo), following the same "REDALC methodology" used in
Peru, is entering the last step before launch and the effort
presents some original characteristics (full and free support
from national private Telecommunication companies, first full
scale use of the state of the art PC based user interface MULBRI)
which makes the experiment specially interesting.
Isoc No3 will get in more details about the last two items in a
special Caribbean Basin issue (Huracan, Cunet and Redid).
The Latin American group formed during the Rio de Janeiro
workshop met in Buenos Aires in January, then in Mexico in
February, and is planning to meet again in Puerto Rico in
April. No public feed-back have been made available yet.
SPECIAL REPORT ON LATIN AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION LISTS OR NEWSGROUPS
This is a synthesis of the outstanding work offered by Pedro
Saizar (pedro@ohstpy.bitnet) which details are obtainable by
sending the command GET LISTS GUIDE to LISTSERV@HARVARDA.
The pieces of information collected from the mentioned source
have been completed or slightly modified, in rare occasions.
However, it have not been thoroughly controlled. Please send
additions or corrections directly to Pedro Saizar. The main
language used is generally Spanish. Only public offers are
listed.
A) PROFESSIONALS
TOPIC REGION/COUNTRY LIST NAME NODE NAME
Artificial Intel. Latin America IAMEX-L TECMTYVM.bitnet
Astronomy Latin America ASTR-O BRFAPESP.bitnet
Networks Latin America LACWE-L BRFAPESP.bitnet
Networks Latin America LACWS-L BRFAPESP.bitnet
Networks Latin America REDALC FRMOP11.bitnet
Networks Latin America SIRIAC-L ENLACE.bitnet
Computer Science Brazil COMP-NET PSP.FAPESP.ANSP.BR
Computer Science Chile CHILENET UCHCEVM.bitnet
Health Science Latin America, USA PANET-L YALEVM.bitnet
Informatics Latin America ESLAI FORWISS.UNI-PASSAU.DE
Physics Latin America FISICA-L BRUFMG.bitnet
Psychology The Americas IAPSY-L ALBNYVM1.bitnet
Social Science Quebec RQSS UQUEBEC.bitnet
B) CULTURAL
TOPIC LIST NAME NODE NAME
Argentina Argentina asterix.eng.buffalo.edu
Bolivia Llajat readingj@cerf.net
Brazil Bras-net Non-European users:
bras-net@lanai.cs.ucla.edu
Brazil Bras-net European users: bras-net@uk.ac.man.cs
Brazil UFRJ-NCEN ufrj.bitnet
Brazil .BR domain brfapesp.bitnet
Brazil Padais pccvm.bitnet
Caribbean Caribe enlace.bitnet
Caribbean USENET News soc.culture.caribbean
Central Amer. CentAm-L ubvm.bitnet
Chile Chile-l purccvm.bitnet
Colombia Colext andescol.bitnet
Dominican Rep. Sdomingo enlace.bitnet
Ecuador Ecuador ners6k1.ncsu.edu
Ibero-America Iberian_issues bitnic.bitnet
Latin America LASNET emx.utexas.edu
Latin America USENET News soc.culture.latin-america
Mexico Mexico-l tecmtyvm.bitnet
Mexico Mexico-d tecmtyvm.bitnet
Mexico Mexico vmtecmex.bitnet
Panama Panama lamar.colostate.edu
Peru Peru athena.mit.edu
Puerto Rico Boriken enlace.bitnet
Uruguay Uruguay db.toronto.edu
USA MCRL-L msu.bitnet
Venezuela Venezuela athena.mit.edu
* Union Latina