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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 
=========================================== 
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. 

                       ---------------- 

 
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 
========================================= 
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 
========================================== 
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 
.