STEVE GOLDSTEIN: INTERNET LA CREACION DE UNA ALDEA MUNDIAL DEMOCRATICA

Entrevista a Steve Goldstein de Jerry Stilkind

Algunos países limitan el acceso de los individuos, empresas y grupos no gubernamentales a la Internet, en un esfuerzo para continuar manteniendo su control sobre la información que obtiene su pueblo sobre su gobierno y el mundo exterior. Algunos países limitan el acceso a este novísimo instrumento de la revolución de la información a fin de preservar lucrativos monopolios administrados por el estado. Pero en estas sociedades individuos y grupos encuentran maneras de darle un rodeo a los monopolios del gobierno.

Latin American and Caribbean Concerns

Larry Press, lpress@isi.edu

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The fifth Latin American and Caribbean Networking Forum, hosted by Jose Soriano of the Peruvian Scientific Network, was held in Lima on April 14-19, 1996. At the first Forum, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1991, most of the networks were small UUCP experiments, but, by this year, nearly all attendees represented IP networks with Internet connectivity.

Foro Permanente de Redes de América Latina y el Caribe (1991-1998)

By Molly Molloy

An important regional meeting took place in Lima, Peru in April 1996 to discuss recent developments and establish a strategic plan for the continuing evolution of internetworking in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Role of Computer Networks in Development

The Role of Computer Networks in Development

Larry Press
California State University

The good news is that the Internet has grown like a weed, and many welcome it as a tool for productivity and enlightenment; the bad news is that it is almost unknown in developing nations (see Table 1). This article offers the hypothesis that computer networks can improve life in developing nations at a relatively low cost. We begin with a brief discussion of development, followed by some of the ways computer networks might help, and conclude with a look at what can be done.

Integración del Internet en Instituciones Educativas

Integración del Internet en Instituciones Educativas

J.T. Johnson

San Francisco State University

La posibilidad de estar hoy con ustedes para hablar sobre la integración del Internet en las instituciones educativas no es mera casualidad. De hecho, mi presencia aquí es un vivo ejemplo del poder y potencial de este nuevo, multidimensional medio de comunicación.

Building an Information Infrastructure with Ibero-America:

Building an Information Infrastructure with Ibero-America: The ISTEC Library Linkages Initiative

Harry Llull, Antonio Fortes,Meg Glasston,Ramiro Jordan
University of New Mexico

The Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC) was formed in 1990 and is comprised of progressive educational institutions, industries and foundations which are collectively committed to fostering hemispheric development through the dissemination of information, joint scientific and technological research and innovative science education. Lead by Professor Ramiro Jordan of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at the University of New Mexico, ISTEC has over thirty members with its USA Secretariat functioning as a program of UNM’s Latin American Institute.

Maps of the State and Growth of the Internet and the Web in ALyC

Copyright © 1996 MIDS by   John S. Quarterman <jsq@mids.org>
Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS) and
Gretchen Phillips <gretchen@acsu.buffalo.edu>
The University at Buffalo for
V Foro Permanente de Redes de America Latina y el Caribe
(Fifth Permanent Forum on Computer Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean )

Toward an Internet Census for Developing Nations

Larry Press, lpress@isi.edu

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Abstract
Governments and international organizations regularly gather economic and census data for use by administrators, policy makers, legislators, investors, and others. This paper discusses the extension of such work to the Internet, with emphasis on developing nations. The paper begins with a description of a survey of 23 academic networks with international connectivity (IP or UUCP) in 21 Latin American and Caribbean nations. After summarizing the results of that pilot survey, we discuss questionnaire revisions, survey problems, and conclude by proposing further steps toward a network census for developing nations.

PERU: Molly Molloy – Here is the networking report I wrote in Sept 1994

In June 1994, I received an invitation from the U.S. InformationAgency USIA) Academic Specialist Program to travel to Peru to conduct a two-week library science project. This opportunity came about due to a contact I made at the March 1994 Latin Ameri can Studies Association (LASA) conference in Atlanta. At LASA I participated in a panel entitled “Demystifying the Internet.” Dr. Marcia Koth de Paredes, Director of the Fulbright Commission in Peru, attended the session and mentioned the possibility of traveling to Peru to share this information with librarians and scholars there. The USIA Academic Specialist Program officer called me in June and the trip was scheduled for early September 1994.

CLACSO: Redes y Comunicaciones Electronicas

Redes y Comunicaciones Electronicas
Por Gabriela Amenta y Gustavo Navarro
Es una produccion del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales – CLACSO
Secretaria Ejecutiva: Marcia Rivera

* Area de Documentacion e Informacion, Coordinadora: Dominique Babini
* Area de Difusion, Coordinador: Jorge Fraga
* Disenio Electronico: Jorge Fraga – Gabriela Amenta

AIguna vez Umberto Eco advirtio a sus lectores asustadizos sobre las recompensas que podia significar la conquista de un texto que de primera instancia luce dificil. Tal vez aqui cabe recordar esa exhortacion. Este libro es una invitacion a realizar un recorrido interior, personal. Con nuestros temores a lo desconocido en este caso los cambios en tecnologias de comunicacion nos toma de la mano y nos convoca al asombro por lo nuevo, la admiracion por el mundo de posibilidades que se nos abren y al entusiasmo por un futuro de informacion compartida y decisiones bien fundamentadas. No es poco; nos convoca a que seamos actores en la transformacion mas vertiginosa que vive el mundo hoy: la revolucion en la comunicacion por vias electronicas.