Connectivity Providers Database

From: cambodiamgr@pactok.peg.apc.org (cambodiamgr) To: sghuter@psg.com Date: 17 Aug 95 10:18:00 +1000 CCCNet - Cambodia Background The Cooperation Committee for Cambodia is a membership organisation for NGOs working in Cambodia. CCC was established in 1991 by NGOs working in the country to help improve their assistance to the Cambodian people, through facilitating contacts and coordination amongst NGOs themselves, and helping links between NGOs and the Cambodian Government, International Organisations and other supporting relief, reconstruction and development efforts. CCC currently has 58 member agencies , working in a variety of sectors. Environment NGOs in Cambodia are isolated by high communications costs and difficult telecommunications conditions. Telephones can be difficult to procure, faults with the phone and electricity networks are common and international phone calls are very expensive. Commercial e-mail providers do not exist in Cambodia. Objectives CCCNet aims specifically to encourage cost-effective information exchange between local and international NGOs working in Cambodia and their overseas partners in order to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness. Activities CCCnet provides a basic electronic mail gateway for CCCnet members. Members are provided with an e-mail address with which they can carry on correspondence with anybody on the Internet. In addition, electronic conferences provide for an exchange of messages by users following a special area of interest. For example, a Cambodian conference is provided for the posting of information of interest to the NGO community. Items of interest include: _ training course details _ job vacancies _ personnel changes _ program news _ sectoral group news _ agency announcements _ requests for information CCCNet management CCCNet is a non-profit, cooperative venture which is a natural extension of existing CCC activities. The network manager is the Executive Secretary of CCC, but the daily running of the network is the responsibility of the Technology Resources Assistant. This person's duties also include a range of technology based activities including publication production, database management and management of CCC's NGO time-share computer facility. Overall responsibility for the network is in the hands of a Management Committee of users. CCCNet was established with assistance from the International Development Research Centre. CCCNet is currently using FidoNet, which is a store-and-forward Wide Area Network for electronic mail which uses modems on the direct-dial public telephone network. It was developed in 1984, and now consists of over 13,000 nodes worldwide which move e-mail and conference messages over the public telephone network using a unique protocol and data format. As the FidoNet is almost entirely financed by private individuals, minimization of modem/ telephone time and coping with the limitations of voice grade telephone lines has been the principal driving force behind any design of the data transfer protocols. CCCNet has three times connection per day to Australia Network (Pactok Nework Hub, Sydney), 06:30 am, 12:30 pm and 17:30 pm -- all incoming/ outgoing mail messages will be exchanged by the three times connection -- at the moment, CCCNet has nearly 50 members in the network. At the moment, CCCNet have planed to migrate from Fido technology network to a TCP/IP based network, i.e., to a real Internet connection by dial-up links. CCCNet address: Office No. 35, Street Preach Sokun Mean Bun [178], Sangkat Psar Themy 3, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tel/Fax: 855-23-26009/62494 Internet address: cambodiamgr@pactok.peg.apc.org Contact person: Sally Lowe, network manager and Samphea Rul, network administrator.