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From: feyi@sl.baobab.com (Feyi) To: Multiple recipients of list <africana-l@warthog.cc.wm.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 10:04:26 -0400 Hi All, Sierra Leone has had an email access to the internat since November 1994. Mails are exchanged daily with Baobab Communications in Washington which provides a gateway service. In April 1995 Securicom Consultants the local service provider had a joint seminar on email with United States Information service. This created a lot of awareness about email and to date Securicom has over ten point connected to its system including: Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service, Fourah Bay College library ( which is used by a lot of university lecturers), Action-Aid Sierra leone, Gisa International, Dunstan Spenser and Associates, United States Informaion Service, SAB Technologies and very soon the British Council. There are two other projects namely Sierranet and CABECA which are supposed to be providing email access. However, securicom's system is the most successful. The Proprietor of Securicom Consultants, Feyi Asgill, attended this years Internet Society workshop and Conference in Hawaii and is beginning to implement some of the knowledge gained. Plans are underway to create a local world wide web service to include local information until a leased line becomes econonical viable. Acess to the global world wide web and other services is possible via email. This is expected to become more popular in a few weeks when securicom starts polling twice daily as request by some of its potential customers. We are looking for people who want to be distributing information locally in Sierra Leone. We will work with such people to improve the quality of our service. In general it is better to use an existing service than to redesign the wheel. Currently, securicom offers Africana, Leonenet and Edupage free to its subscribers. Securicom has been so sucessful through the help of Jeff Cochrane who helped a lot during the nine months he spent in Sierra leone as a Fulbright Scholar and Bob Barad of Baobab Communications who is our service providers. Feyi Asgill
