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Networks and Community Compiled readme
NETWORKS AND COMMUNITY
Date: December 5, 1993
Compiler: Sam Sternberg samsam@vm1.yorku.ca
This weekly report attempts to follow the changing nature of
community based and oriented activities on the internet.
Readers will get a summary of much of the week's activity on
subjects like Free-Nets and other community nets; access
technology, and legislation effecting public access to
information and network services. Issues like electronic
democracy, censorship and business activity on the net, will be
touched upon when they impact community related issues.
You will also learn about new community nets, and new gophers,
listservs and e-journals which cover this material.
No group and certainly no individual can really monitor even a
fraction of the action on any aspect of the Internet. So your
contributions are welcome.
Please forward announcements to me if "you" are the originating
source.
Please do not forward material from other lists etc. - UNLESS
these sources do not normally focus on issues effecting community
computing and access issues.
To start this news report, I am including a list of major
resources on these topics. This list is not comprehensive. It is
a good guide to historical repositories of information, ongoing
debate and discussion, and useful tools for those attempting to
open or run a community computing facility.
To simplify the job of finding these resources I will point you
to a collection of resources rather than a source whenever that's
possible. I am grateful for the previous work in gathering a
listserv resource list by Art "Rambo" McGee. I have made liberal
use of his list.
DISCUSSION AND ONGOING ASSISTANCE RESOURCES
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each entry has the following information
LIST NAME | SUBSCRIPTION Provider's net location
| DESCRIPTION
To subscribe, send a one line message that says:
SUBSCRIBE LIST_NAME YOUR_FIRST_NAME YOUR_LAST_NAME
to the appropriate subscription provider's net location.
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ALA-WO | listserv@uicvm.uic.edu
| regular reports on legislation - information
access - other matters effecting library networks
COMMUNET | listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu
| Community and Civic Networks - THE PRIMARY LIST
COMMUNITY-ACCESS | community-access-request@parc.xerox.com
| Community Access Issues
CET-MG | almanac@esusda.gov
| Communities in Economic Transition - for rural
and small town groups
COSNDISC | listserv@bitnic.educom.edu
| Consortium for School Networking
CPSR | listserv@gwuvm.gwu.edu
| Computer Professions for Social Responsibility -
censorship and network related social issues
CYPHERWONKS | listserv@lists.cunet.fi
| Electronic democracy - privacy - and new software
development proposals for public debates etc.
FREENET-ADMIN | listserv@nptn.org
| Free-Net Administrators - current issues facing
organizers - funding - managing - law - etc.
FREENET-TECH | listprocessor@cunews.carleton.ca
| Technical Net Operations - advice and
assistance - excellent source of technical info
PACS-L | listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu
| Library & Public Access Computer Systems - the most
intellectual of the lists - excellent issue
analysis
Some of these lists are archived; and the archives are accessible
through the gopher at Rice University in Houston.
riceinfo.rice.edu
TOOLS FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITY FACILITIES
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each entry has the following information
TYPE OF RESOURCE | LOCATION OF RESOURCE
| DESCRIPTION
NETWORK DEVELOPMENT | gopher lan.vita.org
3rd WORLD path ->developnet news
-> technology transfer ->
| 3rd world community networks - tools
NETWORK DEVELOPMENT | gopher riceinfo.rice.edu
ON A BUDGET path ->psgnet/rainnet ...
->tools for low cost networks ->
| software and advice for net builders
NETWORK DEVELOPMENT | gopher riceinfo.rice.edu
AND FUNDING path ->grants ->
| fundraising resources
ALSO | gopher cypher.esusda.gov
path ->resources for non profits
->resource development ->
| location of foundation center libraries
and book listing funding info sources.
NETWORK DEVELOPMENT | gopher riceinfo.rice.edu
AND CULTURE path -> computer networks ....->
| lots of goodies including
Center for Civic Networking
civic nets, community nets
freenets, NPTN, etc.
ALSO path -> computing
-> social issues ->
| various journals on social impacts of
computing
CURRENT INFORMATION SOURCES
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each entry has the following information
TYPE OF RESOURCE | LOCATION OF RESOURCE
| DESCRIPTION
DAILY NEWS | gopher cns.cscns.com
path ->main
->usnews ->
| current business and telecommunication news +
ISSUE ANALYSIS | gopher wired.com
| articles about technology and society
OPERATING FREENET SYSTEMS | gopher info.senecac.on.ca
path ->interesting places
->city freenets
| best access list for community nets
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