From shahn@umd5.umd.edu Mon Oct 2 15:59:10 1995 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 18:58:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Saul Hahn To: "Laurence I. Press" cc: Randy Bush , Pimienta Daniel , Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu, archie_marshall@umail.umd.edu, gdt@ns.cr, cieca!mceara@redid.org.do, lanfran@vm1.yorku.ca, sgoldste@nsf.gov, sghuter@psg.com, o.crepin-leblond@ic.ac.uk, sa90@umail.umd.edu, fmoncion@pucmm.edu.do, rmejia@pucmm.edu, manison@uwimona.edu.jm, Saul Hahn Subject: CUNET UPDATE Status: RO Randy, Larry: Please find enclosed some latest statistics related to the number of registered and active users in different countries associated with the CUNet project. CUNet is a sub-project of the Hemisphere Wide Inter-University Scientific and Information Network (RedHUCyT), which has been actively assisting the OAS member States to connect to Internet. I have asked Archie Marshall, to double check the numbers for the remaining countries or institutions not listed here. The numbers were provided by the CUNet country coordinators and any specific inquiries should be addressed to them directly and to Archie Marshall. Please observe that Jamaica has full IP connectivity as has been described previously. Belize connects through PSGnet in Oregon (Randys' network). Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia connect through Canada (COL). The other countries use the University of Puerto Rico as a hub. Adding the numbers provided by the Coordinators, the total count shows over twenty six hundred, 2600, registered users and over 2300 "active" users. NOTE: Full IP connectivity is now commercially available from the PTT's in Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Barbados, Bermuda, Saint Lucia, Dominican Republic (actually by three competing companies). The service is most commonly PPP dial up or SLIP. Currently, whenever possible, we are committed to assist academic institutions for full IP connectivity, as in Jamaica and soon Trinidad and other countries. I hope you find this information useful. --Saul __________________________________________________ CUNet, USERS SAINT LUCIA: Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 22:30:09 AST From: "A. H. Daniels" To: shahn@umd5.umd.edu, ar@isis.org.lc Subject: CUNet Update Hello Dr. Hahn, Here is an update of our user base in Saint Lucia. We currently have a total of 106 user accounts on our system at ISIS and 65% to 70% of these are active users. The Sir Arthur Lewis which has recently been set up as 15 active users and this will soon be increased when their 50 user division network is integrated with the UNIX system. Regards. Albert H. Daniels CUNet Coordinator _______________________ _____________________________________________________________________ JAMAICA: From: junior crawford To: am146 Cc: fhahn@umd5.umd.edu Subject: Re: CUNet update Hi Archie, We have on our host approx. 220 users with Internet access, which all are presently active. I hope you may fine this info helpfull. Regards ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:45:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy M Whyte Subject: UWIMonaNet To: Archie Marshall Archie, As we discussed here a breif profile. UWIMonaNet is based on a campus wide FDDI backbone providing connectivity to a increasing number local area networks. The University community is comprised of approximately 6000 students, academics and administrators in total only about 30% of number presently have direct connectivity but this is growing rapidly. UWIMonaNet manages a 64Kbs leased line for Internet connectivty and we have an active user base of approximately 1500 users. Jeremy. __________________________________________________________________ Jeremy M. Whyte E-Mail: jmwhyte@uwimona.edu.jm __________________________________________________________________ Jeremy M. Whyte E-Mail: jmwhyte@uwimona.edu.jm Systems/Network Engineering Mona Information Systems Unit Voice : 809-977-3160 University of the West Inidies Fax : 809-977-3164 ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ BARBADOS: My Assistant, Santiago Aguilar, spoke with Robert Williams, Barbados Coordinator, Sep 28, 1995: (williams@uwichill.edu.bb) Registered users: 150 Very active users: 30 ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ SAINT VINCENT: Santiago, spoke with Donnie de Freitas, Saint Vincent, Coordinator, Sep 28, 1995: Registered users: 186 For specific activity information contact Donnie de Freitas. Many of the users are very active. (system@mcw.gov.vc) ANTIGUA: Santiago, spoke with George Daniel CUNet Antigua, Coordinator, Sep 29, 1995: (Daniel@uhsa.edu.ag) Registered users: 30 Very active users: about 20 BELIZE: >From previous conversation with Archie Marshall and myself, Brian Candler, CUNet Coordinator, Belize, indicates approximately 80 active users. (Brian@ucb.edu.bz) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Santiago, spoke with Flavio Moncion, PUCMM CUNet Dominican Republic Coordinator, Sep 29, 1995: Registered users: 120 Active users: 60-70 fmoncion@pucmm.edu.do TRINIDAD &TOBAGO: Patrick Hosein, UWI Coordinator, Oct, 02, 95: ________________ Registered users: 75 Active users: 50 (hosein@ldc.uwi.tt) - > > Patrick, > > How are you doing....how many users are you actively supporting on > your system right now.. I need these figures urgently. > > I would guess that there are about 50 active users (i.e, at least three messages per week). There are about 75 total users. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ (*)Niherst: (*)IMA: (*)CARIRI: * to be determined. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ SURINAME: According to OnTheInternet, Vol 1, #3, July/Aug, 1995, pg 40 Suriname accomodates some 350 users. Please contact, Gerold Van Dijk, Coordinator, University of Suriname, (gerold@uvs.edu.sr) _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ BAHAMAS: 140 active users. Information supplied to Archie on Oct, 2, 95 by Barbara Ambrister, Coordinator, College of the Bahamas (Ambri@cob.edu.bs) From sghuter@darkwing.uoregon.edu Mon Jun 19 13:05:43 1995 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil] [nil "Mon" "19" "June" "1995" "14:52:06" "EST" "Pimienta Daniel" "pimienta!daniel@redid.org.do" nil "550" "CARIBBEAN INTEGRATION THRU INFO NETWORK" "^Date:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil] nil) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 14:52:06 EST From: Pimienta Daniel To: Steve Huter Subject: CARIBBEAN INTEGRATION THRU INFO NETWORK Status: RO Steve, Thanks for keeping our note about the Caribbean networking in your gopher. Please find enclosed copy of thge CARITIN project which offer a framework for the same matter. Please note that it was written in 1993, and alhough the diagnostic is still valid some information may have gone obsolete. Best regards, ========================================================================== Daniel Pimienta Dir. Fundacion Redes y Desarrollo (FUNREDES) C/O Casa de Francia (BCLE) Calle Las Damas #42 Zona Colonial tel: + 1 809 535 2422 (mensajeria) Aptdo 2972 fax: 535 6646 Santo Domingo pimienta!daniel@redid.org.do Republica Dominicana pimienta@aacr.us.net ========================================================================== CARIBBEAN INTEGRATION THROUGH INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (CARITIN) A PROJECT OF THE FOUNDATION NETWORKS AND DEVELOPMENT (FUNREDES) October, 7th 1993 1-INTRODUCTION The Caribbean Region is commonly defined as an area of 24 island countries plus 4 mainland countries maintaining close ties with the Caribbean islands (Guyana, Belize, Surinam and French Guyane) -Note 1-. The 28 countries represent a total population of 35 millions, covering a total area of 727,000 km2. The population shares a common geographic and climatic area and a complex cultural background where commonalities and specificities are equally important. The relative cultural homogeneity emerged as a product of various factors: -the common climatic conditions, -the remaining pre-colombian heritage -Note 2-, -the colonial European history (French, Spanish, British, French and Dutch), -the large forced migrations from Africa, -the natural migrations from other regions (in particular India), and the relatively rapid (although uneven) melting of the various components, from which emerge a culture of "metissage" specific to the Caribbean. There are however large differences between the Caribbean countries: -In term of land area: from Guyana (215 000 km2) to Anguilla (91 km2). The 23 island countries cover only 235 000 km2 (88% of which is shared by the 4 larger islands: Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Porto Rico), while the mainland countries cover 492 000 km2. -In term of population: from Anguilla's 8000 inhabitants to Cuba's 12 millions. -In term of political status: 16 independent countries, one territory dependent on the Netherlands (Aruba, Curacao, the Dutch part of St Marteen -Note 5-, St Eustatius and Saba), two on the United States (US Virgin Island and Porto Rico), three on France (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane), and five on the United Kingdom (Caiman Islands, Turk and Caicos, UK Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Anguilla). -In term of level of economic development: from Haiti's US$ 320 GNP per head to the Bahamas US$ 12,000. _______________ N1: A larger definition encompasses countries like Venezuela and Colombia which hold tight economic and cultural relationships. A more larger definition incorporates the set of countries around the Caribbean Basin, thus including Centro America and Mexico. N2: Solely in mainland countries survived some original indian populations N5: The other part belongs to the French department of Guadeloupe _______________ The Caribbean countries are also divided by several factors: -the geographic factor: island and mainland countries scattered on the vast area of the Caribbean Basin, -the linguistic factor: three main blocks (Spanish, English and French) plus Dutch and Creoles, -the geopolitical factor: influence of the United States and of the European countries, -the economic factor: competition for tropical exports and tourism, lack of complementarity. The current world evolution which shows the emergence of two opposite trends (the grouping of regions within economical common structure and, in parallel, the demand of recognition from cultural minorities) is of particular acuity in that region where the touristic flows increase at the same speed as the volume of emigration. The progress of the NAFTA arises concerns within the region and should also act as an indirect integration incentive. For all countries of the area, the prospect for development lies on a better cultural, economic and political integration. Annex 1 and 2 show, for each country, the political status, the basic indicators and the level of participation in existing integration schemes (Lome IV, CARICOM, OECS, CBI). 2-INTEGRATION BARRIERS A first level diagnostic shows that languages differences are not the mere explanation for difficulties in integration, since divisions exist inside common linguistic areas. The main barrier to overcome the politic and economic resistances and the first obstacle to the Caribbean integration process rather lies in the lack of organized regional communication. The numerous intents to seed the integration process at the cultural level present the characteristics to come short in term of momentum and consequent follow-up. The important efforts made at the economic level (Lome Convention, OECS, and, above all, Caricom) have not yet reach the point of triggering a global integration process (the Caribbean Basin Initiative should not be taken as an integration program but rather as an export and investment development scheme). Beside the Caribbean culture and its natural tendency to make people take their time in every aspect of their social life, apart some understandable fear about regional competition, the weakness of the global outcome gained from the various actions is better explained by the very poor level of regional communication. Each country is mostly oriented, in term of communication, toward one of the related foreign countries. In term of Science and Technology, little is done to share with the neighbor country (except maybe within the English speaking area, particularly trough the University of West Indies, which have campuses in various places). The existing integration efforts have to struggle against the difficulties for day to day intra-Caribbean communication which represent a painful and critical overhead. At the difference of other regions, the essence of the Caribbean makes the concept of frontier rather inapplicable, thus preventing the natural mechanism which, from commerce and personal direct dealing make two countries sharing a frontier start develop some kind of articulation and feeling of belonging to the same commercial zone. It is significant to observe that the sea and air means of transportation usually show a star topology which makes the travel distance between two countries equal to the diameter of the circle (except touristic operations where the only integration which occurs is that of the perspective of visiting persons, realizing after several stops that, as different as they may appear, these people share, not always consciously, a lot of commonality). The diagnostic is clear and neat: what is lacking is a transport infrastructure! Useless to state the right direction to solve the problem is not necessarily to start by sea or air transportation (forget about terrestrial...), but rather by information highways. The existence of an organized information infrastructure would effect considerably the future of this region and may even drive the launching of more conventional transportation systems... The new information and communication technologies represents a unique opportunity to tight the relationships between Caribbean people, arise consciousness on their common background, level up the motivation for common actions, boost the productivity of current actions, and eventually drive political changes in the common interest of the countries sharing this tropical area. An effective strategy to reach the whole community is to target growing and concentric circles from the intellectual communities (scientists and cultural oriented), to socially important communities (health, education...), the business, the politic, and the rest of the population (somehow like the Internet is emerging). The building of an information infrastructure, by its nature, must go much beyond the scope of the transmission and the transport layer of networks and focus primarily the couple "users/services". The two main priorities, beside the realization of effective and efficient information transport mechanisms, are: 1) to identify, organize and train the information users so that they could gain benefits of the new technologies of information and communication; 2) to organize the information services within the region. The subsequent project, based on field actions already executed in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and supported by an explicit and proven methodology (see references 3), aims to concentrate on the construction of an information infrastructure within the Caribbean with a deliberate focus on users and services. 3-BASICS OF THE PROJECTS The project consists in creating, in each country, a national information network for the research and academic community (extensible to other sectors), with the following main focus: -the creation of open, participative and pluralistic user groups, -the systematic dissemination of the information services and preparation of users, -the systematic organization of electronic conferences and directories oriented toward regional objectives, -the systematic organization of information bases oriented toward regional objectives. The subregional integration factor will be present in each element: -the methodology for creation of user groups integrate as a prime factor the relationship with the other countries of the region (starting by the closest), -the user training workshop are organized for groups of countries, thus allowing contacts and further partnerships, -the choice of applications, conferences and directories is driven by the integration factor. The linguistic factor is clearly a key element of the project. The project has to consider three languages as mandatory: Spanish, English and French. However, in order to go beyond the overhead represented by this point, the project must commit to deeply incorporate the recent developments in automatic language translation (which, by the way, could find in the electronic highways a field of experiment particularly appropriate). The project is divided in five parts (two of which have already been done, and one being under process): A- The elaboration of a specific methodology for building national academic and research networks. This step has already been completed (see references 3). The methodology needs only to be adjusted depending of the most recent technological changes and local conditions. B- The realization of the Dominican Republic national network, with a strong integration factor with Haiti. This step is already done: the user group has been organized, users has received training, and basic e-mail is functioning since 1.5 years. Some further steps are required such as the installation of full Internet capacity and the organizing of the application layer. C- The realization of the Haitian national research network, with a strong integration factor with Dominican Republic. The plan was to do it together with the Dominican network. The political turmoils in Haiti made it very difficult. Few months ago, the project restarted with more strength, the progress are now consistent (a group has be formed with experimental Internet access, an electronic conference started, and soon some 50 users will be installed). A decisive move should be undertaken with the forecasted return of democracy. The project is all set-up but budgets are required to organize the technical solutions. The first level of evaluation of the amount of budget required to cover the full process is in the order of 200,000 US$. The estimated duration for completion evaluated at 6 months. D- The CARITIN project feasibility study. Create the ground for the project: -Establish the criterias for selecting a representative group of countries. -Evaluate the regional integration levels (information, human and economic flows). -Identify the intra Caribbean cooperation institutions, public and private. -Identify the current and planned projects having some level of connexity. -Diagnostic the situation specific to each country in term of research, information, telecommunications, information and transport networks. -Make the appropriate contacts and identify project partners and user group foundations. -Provide a stage plan for the user and services project. Define precisely the budget and the development plan. The first level evaluation for the feasibility study budget turns around 200,000 US$. PARTNERS: Some Organizations have already announce their interest in participating in the CARITIN project (UNESCO/CRESALC, FAO, ENDA-CARIBE, CIECA, CERLAC) and could participate in their respective fields of competence. E-A User group step. In each participating country, help federate the various institutions of the Science and Technology domain into a non-profit association scheme. Help create the conditions for participation of the institutions and the end-users in a national priority task. Duration= 18 months F-An application step. In each participating country, create the conditions for the installation of national data bases accessible from the Internet and start a set of pilot application oriented projects. Duration= 18 months The differences in the step of development of the various countries argue for a moderate level of overlap between the tasks: x Year x Year x Year x 1 2 3 ^________._________^_________._________^_________.__________^ AAAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBBBBBBB CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 4-BACKGROUNDS/ANTECEDENTS The development of research networks in the Caribbean has not been driven by a pattern of commonality. The main lines are: -Porto Rico started long ago and is now in a very advanced stage (full Internet capability, internal fiber optic, 2 connections at 64kbps to the USA). -Cuba started a decisive effort in 1991 and the network is well in term of user growth. The network is still UUCP only and the experiment is suffering at the level of the external connectivity. There is a strong expressed will for sub regional cooperation. -Dominican Republic started, based on the Redalc methodology, in 1991 and the growth followed the forecasted pattern. Plans are being made to go full Internet and open the room for applications. -For the English speaking islands, there is a project, funded by OAS and executed by the Porto Rico University named CUNET (Caribbean University Networks). The project concentrates in the minimum transport and transmission infrastructure (a UUCP node connected to Porto Rico by dial-up connections). OAS pays for the Porto Rico expertise in installation and training technicians, for the travel expenses of the team and for the dial-up connections. Besides the classical star scheme for the connections, the main limitations of the project is the lack of user and institutional policy. The growth is unpredictable and highly dependent of the personality of the selected technicians. There is no systematic survey of the user base, the impression from the user point of view, is that the user base is limited, except in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago where a stronger growth is reported. -Guadeloupe integrated EARN France after a very long and cumbersome process. Also, there is an Orstom Rio connection. Martinique is not yet connected. -In Haiti, following the REDALC methodology, the effort started last May, and is very promising. -We are aware of some efforts based on BBS technology, sometimes with link to the Internet (Ambionet from ECLAC, Jamaica). Caricom is managing, with the support of IDRC a project oriented toward decision makers with an expressed will for the creation of a subregional backbone for network transmissions. -Also there is an active USENET group on Caribbean cultures gathering some 50 people from the region. FUNREDES have openned few months ago three electronic conferences (in CONICIT.VE) which are progressively gaining activities: SALSA@CONICIT.VE, for the whole Caribbean, KISKEYA, for the Dominican Republic, HAITI-L for Haiti, ECOCARIB (for CIECA), about economical matters on the Caribbean and TRAMIL (for ENDA) about medicinal plants. In term of cooperation or integration from networking the only relevant actions are: -REDALC Workshop, user and institution oriented (concerning Porto Rico, Haiti and Dominican Republic) -REDID project (Dominican Republic) with cooperation with Venezuela, Porto Rico, Haiti and Cuba. -CUNET Workshop, technician oriented -A Caribbean Network Integration Workshop was organized by the Redalc Office in cooperation with Cuba CENIAI and Venezuela (CONICIT). The project was ready to be started, but local circumstances in Cuba obliged to cancel. However most of the material is still usable, and it is forecasted to restart the idea during the next LAyC networking regional meeting scheduled in Caracas, October 93. 5-FUNDING STRATEGY. The size of the projects and the diversity of the countries involved call for a non unique source funding mechanism: the EEC (Lome Convention), Canada and the USA should be invited to participate. 6-ANNEX 1: Caribbean countries political status, basic indicators (Source: Jean Marie Burgaud) ______________________________________________________________________ COUNTRIES POLITICAL AREA POPUL. GNP/ HIGHER STATUS KM2 1990 CAPITA EDUCATION (2) 1990 ENROLMENT US$ (3) (5) ______________________________________________________________________ ANGUILLA UK 91 7000 na na ANTIGUA & BERMUDA IND (UK,1981) 440 65000 4600 na ARUBA NETHERLANDS 250 61000 na na BAHAMAS IND (UK,1973) 13940 247000 4900 4900 BARBADOS IND (UK,1966) 430 255000 6540 5227 BELIZE IND (UK,1981) 22960 189000 1970 na CAIMAN ISLANDS UK 259 27000 na na CUBA IND (SPAIN, 1898) 110860 10608000 2972 (4) na DOMINICA IND (UK, 1978) 750 72000 1940 60 DOMINICAN Rep. IND (SPAIN, 1844) 48444 7170000 820 123745 GRENADA IND (UK,1981) 340 91000 2120 535 GUADELOUPE FRANCE 1779 390000 na na GUYANA IND (UK, 1966) 214970 796000 370 2328 FRENCH GUYANA FRANCE 91000 98000 na na HAITI IND (FRANCE, 1804) 28000 6486000 370 6829 JAMAICA IND (UK, 1962) 10990 2420000 1510 12504 MARTINIQUE FRANCE 1101 360000 na na MONTSERRAT UK 100 11000 na na NETHERL. ANTILLES NETHERLANDS (1) 740 175000 na na PORTO RICO USA 9104 3530000 na na St KITTS & NEVIS IND (UK, 1983) 270 42000 3340 167 ST LUCIA IND (UK, 1979) 620 133000 1900 367 ST VINCENT IND (UK, 1979) 340 107000 1610 736 SURINAME IND (NETH., 1975) 163265 422000 3050 3402 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO IND (UK, 1962) 5130 1236000 3470 4939 TURKS & CAICOS UK 430 12000 na na UK VIRGIN ISLANDS UK 150 16000 na na US VIRGIN ISLANDS USA 344 107000 na na ______________________________________________________________________ (1) Two leeward islands (Curacao and Bonaire) plus three windward islands (Dutch part of St Martenn, St Eustatius and Saba) (2) Source: CELADE (Centro Latinoamricano de Demografia) (3) Source: World Bank (Social Indicators of Development) (4) Global Social Product at official rate of PS 1= US$ 1 (5) Source: Unesco, Statistical Yearbook, 1990 (years 85-86) 7-ANNEX 2: Caribbean countries participation in integration schemes (Source: Jean Marie Burgaud) _________________________________________________________________ RELATION WITH THE EC CARICOM OECS CBI LOME IV EC TERITORY OCT _________________________________________________________________ ANGUILLA * ANTIGUA & BERMUDA * * * * ARUBA * BAHAMAS * * * BARBADOS * * * BELIZE * * * CAIMAN ISLANDS * CUBA DOMINICA * * * * DOMINICAN Rep. * observer * GRENADA * * * * GUADELOUPE * GUYANA * * * FRENCH GUYANA * HAITI * observer * JAMAICA * * * MARTINIQUE * MONTSERRAT * * * NETHERL. ANTILLES * * PORTO RICO associated St KITTS & NEVIS * * * * ST LUCIA * * * * ST VINCENT * * * * SURINAME * TRINIDAD & TOBAGO * * * TURKS & CAICOS * UK VIRGIN ISLANDS * US VIRGIN ISLANDS associated _________________________________________________________________________ 8-ANNEX 3: LIST OF ACRONYMS BBS: Buletin Board System, structured information consultable by calling a computer via telephone lines. CARICOM: Caribbean Community. CARITIN: Caribbean Integration Through Information Infrastructure, a Project of FUNREDES. CBI: Caribbean Basin Investment, an incentive exportation system of the USA for creation of plants in the Caribbean. CERLAC: Center for Economical Research on Latin America and the Caribbean from York University, Canada. CIECA: Centro de Estudio Economico del Caribe, a Dominican NGO. CONICIT: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia de Venezuela, Science and Technology Official Council. CRESALC: Centro Regional de Educacion Superior en America Latina y el Caribe, a Unesco regional center for higher education. CUNET: Caribbean University Network, a project from OAS. EARN: European Academic Research Network. EEC or EC: European (Economic) Community. ENDA: an international NGO focusing agronomic and ecologic themes. FAO: an Organization from United Nations. GNP: Gross National Product. IDRC: an Organization from Canadian cooperation. ISOC: Internet Society. NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement. OAS: Organization of American States. OCT: Overseas Countries and Territories (July 25, 1991 decision of Association of the Council of Ministers of the European Comunities). OECS: Organization of East Caribbean State. ORSTOM: a French research institute specialized in tropical matters. REDID: Red Dominicana de Intercambio para el Desarrollo, National Research Network of Dominican Republic. REHRED: Reseau Telematique haitien pour la recherche et le developpement, National Research Network of Haiti. UK: United Kingdom. UNESCO: United Nations for Education Science and Communication. USENET: a Unix (Unix is an operating system) based conferencing system. UUCP: Unix to Unix Control Program (Unix is an operating system), a protocol of communication. 9-REFERENCES INTEGRATION TROUGH NETWORKING -"Integrar la comunidad academica latinoamericana: un desafio para las redes telematicas", D. Pimienta, pp331-367, en "Calidad, Tecnologia y Globalizacion en la Educacion Superior Latinoamericana", UNESCO/CRESALC, 7/92. -"La Comunicacion Mediante Computadora: una esperanza para el sector cientifico del tercer mundo: la experiencia REDALC en America Latina", Taller de Vigilia Tecnologica, Daniel Pimienta, Caracas, 3/93 -METHODOLOGY -"Research Networks in Developing Countries: Not Exactly the Same story!", D. Pimienta, Proc. of INET93, San Francisco, 8/93 -"REDALC Methodology", D. Pimienta, Matrix News, 9/93 -REGIONAL NETWORKING ACTIVITIES -"Latin American and Caribbean, Networking Perspectives", D. Pimienta, ISOC News, Vol.1, N?1, 92. -"The Dominican Network", D. Pimienta, ISOC News, Vol.1, N?3, 92 - "REDID project document", FUNREDES (see gopher.psg.com) -"A Caribbean Networking Survey", D. Pimienta, ISOC News, Vol.2, N?1, 93 -"Toward the Haitian Network", D. Pimienta, ISOC News, Vol.2, N?2, 93 -"Plan for the Haitian Network", D. Pimienta, Matrix News, 8/93 -Document du projet REHRED, Groupe d'initiative Reseau Haitien, 5/93 (ask Funredes) -CUNET Brochure, OAS, (see gopher.psg.com) -Document for La Havana Caribbean Integration meeting (ask FUNREDES) From am146@umail.umd.edu Wed Jun 14 08:56:02 1995 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Wed" "14" "June" "1995" "08:56" "PDT" "am146@umail.umd.edu" "am146@umail.umd.edu" nil "271" "CUNet update" "^Date:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from psg.com by rip.psg.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sLunS-00030WC; Wed, 14 Jun 95 08:56 PDT Received: from imssys.imssys.com by psg.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #2) id m0sLunQ-00000vC; Wed, 14 Jun 95 08:56 PDT Message-Id: Received: from umail.umd.edu by imssys.imssys.com; Wed, 14 Jun 95 11:48 EST Content-Length: 9990 Content-Type: text X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 08:56 PDT From: am146@umail.umd.edu Subject: CUNet update To: randy@psg.com Status: RO Randy, A new site has been added in St. Lucia at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, see appendix listing for site details regards Archie APPENDIX A ------------------------ COUNTRY NODE ADDRESS ADMINISTRATOR Antigua @uhsa.edu.ag - George S. Daniel UHSA School of Medicine P.O. Box 510 Saint Johns, Antigua Tel: (809) 460-1391 Fax: (809) 460-1477 e-mail: daniel@uhsa.edu.ag Bahamas @cob.edu.bs Barbara Ambrister Computer Center College of the Bahamas P.O. Box 4912 Nashua, Bahamas Tel: (809) 323-8550 Fax: (809) 326-7834 E-mail: ambri@cob.edu.bs Barbados @uwichill.edu.bb - Robert Williams Computer Center Univ. of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus P.O. Box 64 Bridgetown, Barbados Tel: (809) 425-1310 Fax: (809) 425-1327 E-mail: williams@uwichill.edu.bb Belize @ucb.edu.bz - Brian Candler Univ. College of Belize PO Box 990 Belize City Belize, Central America Tel: (501) 2-32732 Fax: (501) 1-30255 E-mail: brian@ucb.edu.bz Dominican Republic @pucmm.edu.do - Flavio Moncion Radames Mejia Pontificia Univ. Catolica Madre y Maestra Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana Tel: (809) 535-0111 Fax: (809) 535-0053 E-mail: fmoncion@pucmm.edu.do Grenada @gnc.edu.gd - Loretta Simon Grenada National College Tanteen St. George's, Grenada. Tel: (809) 440-2652 Fax: (809) 440-2123 E-mail: lindy@gnc.edu.gd Guyana @iica.org.gy Jerry LA GRA Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture P.O. Box 10-1089 Georgetown, Guyana, S.A. Tel: (592) 2-68347 or 63413 Fax: (592) 2-58358 E-Mail: jerry@iica.org.gy @jbs.org.gy Govind Jagroop Independent Researcher 55 Fourth Street Alberttown Georgetown, Guyana Tel: (592) 2-63691 E-Mail: system@jbs.org.gy @uog.edu.gy R. Samaroo Computer Studies University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus Box 101110 Georgetown, Guyana Tel: (592) 2-63691 Fax: (592) 2-54885 E-Mail: system@uog.edu.gy Jamaica @cast.edu.jm - Junior Crawford 237 Old Hope Road Kingston 6, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-1610 Fax: (809) 927-1925 E-mail: junior@cast.edu.jm @uwimona.edu.jm - Keith Manison Senate House Principal's Office Univ. of the West Indies Mona Campus Kingston 7, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-2781 Fax: (809) 927-2156 E-mail: manison@uwimona.edu.jm St. Lucia @isis.org.lc - Albert Daniels ISIS P.O. Box GM 717 Castries, St. Lucia Tel: (809) 452-3702 Fax: (809) 453-7690 E-mail: adaniels@isis.org.lc @salcc.edu.lc - Carson Millar Sir Arthur Lewis Com. College Morne Fortune Castries, St. Lucia Tel: (809) 452-5507 Fax: (809) 452-7901 E-mail: root@salcc.edu.lc St. Vincent and the Grenadines @mcw.gov.vc - Donnie De Freitas Min. of Communications and Works. P.O. Box 58 Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Gernadines Tel: (809) 457-2279 Fax: (809) 456-2168 E-mail: system@mcw.gov.vc Suriname @uvs.edu.sr - Gerold Van Dijk Univ. Computer Center Univ. of Suriname Leysweg, POB 9212 Paramaribo, Suriname Tel: (597) 4-65558 Fax: (597) 4-62291 E-mail: gerold@uvs.edu.sr Trinidad @cariri.gov.tt - Sharon Laurent and Tobago CARIRI Tunapuna Trinidad and Tobago E-mail slaurent@cariri.gov.tt @niherst.gov.tt - Kathy-Ann Joseph NIHERST 20 Victoria Avenue Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 625-4145 Fax: (809) 625-4161 E-mail: kathy@niherst.gov.tt @ldc.uwi.tt - Patrick Hosein Faculty of Engineering University of the West Indies St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 645-3232 x2514 Fax: (809) 662-4414 E-mail: hosein@ldc.uwi.tt @ima.gov.tt Alan Duncan IMA Hilltop Lane Chaguaramas Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 634-4291-4 Fax: (809) 634-4433 E-mail: aduncan@ima.gov.tt @sam.edu.tt - Vinod Bridglalsinhg vinod@sam.edu.tt NODES IN TESTING STAGE St. Kitts and Nevis Ira Mamohon College of Further Education P.O. Box 186 Bassetrre, St. Kiits, W.I. Tel: (809) 456-2090 Fax: (809) 456-5202 E-mail: root@cfe.edu.kn From codemail!dpimient!pimienta!daniel@upr2.clu.net Mon Jun 12 10:20:10 1995 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil t t nil] [nil "Mon" "12" "June" "1995" "12:01:18" "EST" "Pimienta Daniel" "pimienta!daniel@redid.org.do" nil "494" "Daniel Pimienta on Caribbean Networking 95.06.12" "^Date:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil] nil) Message-ID: <2fdc70d2.dpimient@pimienta> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:01:18 EST From: Pimienta Daniel To: Steve Huter , Olivier Crepin-Leblond , Randy Bush Cc: Lista Salsa , Lista Kiskeya , Lista Haiti Subject: Daniel Pimienta on Caribbean Networking 95.06.12 Status: RO Dear colleagues, FUNREDES is completing the information you have taken the initiative to publish in your gopher about networking in the Caribbean. Please, feel free to update your information base with this note (or with selected parts of it). GOPHER.PSG.COM -------------- First of all, let us congratulate you for the useful and comprehensive work you are realizing in collecting data on networks in Developing Countries. Only recently, thanks to the first Internet full connection in the Dominican Republic (see note 1), we could get to visit and browse and enjoy it. We also want to thanks you for presenting, in your gopher, information about our organization (FUNREDES) and REDID (the Dominican research network). We sincerely appreciate this contribution in defense of pluralism. The conditions are (at last!) present for the creation of REDID and FUNREDES.ORG internet nodes and subsequent gophers and webs (see note 2). It will take an estimated 4 months to get them in operation. We will then inform you and we could proceed to organize the required linkages. As for Haiti (REHRED), I am afraid it will take an additional 3 months to get there (see note 3). Meanwhile, we will try to provide you with more accurate and up to date information. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CARIBBEAN NETWORKS TRAFFIC FIGURES ---------------------------------- In our last trip to , we discovered, with a tremendous interest (we have been so eager to get them for years!), the CUNET traffic figures. The report of CUNET is misleading when it present the .DO figures. It should be specified that these figures are limited to PUCMM.EDU.DO (the CUNET component of Dominican Rep.) and that they do not include REDID.ORG/EDU.DO. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ As you may know, the .DO domain, still under management in Puerto Rico, is shared by the two networks. With the imminent creation of, at least, two more Internet commercial providers (in fierce competition) and the migration of REDID to the Internet, the managing of the .DO by a Dominican entity is soon becoming a priority. This is a touchy issue, requiring fair concertizing between the involved entities. FUNREDES is taking actions to initiate and smooth the process. As for the correspondent traffic and user figures for REDID.DO, they are shown in note 4 and 5. ***************************************************************** * You will notice that REDID ALONE * * represents as much traffic as the ENTIRE CUNET * * (including the CUNET .DO component) * ***************************************************************** To enhance the Caribbean perspective it will be worth having more data, in particular the corresponding Jamaican and Cuban figures. For Cuba, I hope the CENIAI Director can show the figures. For Jamaica, I hope the people of University of West Indies could provide corresponding figures. COMMENTING THE FIGURES ---------------------- In the persistent lack of user directories (or total user numbers) from CUNET, these figures are the closest way we got for approximation of the numbers of users in CUNET (see note 6). For those interested in methodology evaluation matters, they offer the most reliable indication, 3 years after the parallel start of REDID and CUNET. REDID was designed with the "REDALC methodology" (see note 7) which focuses in building the user base and institutions and relies in partnership with telecom operators (the Codetel company have been helpfully supporting the entire international and national telecommunication costs of REDID, since may 1992). WHAT IS AT STAKE BEHIND THE FACTS? ---------------------------------- The point is hardly to compare projects in terms of methodology vs results. The question about what project is doing better is secondary. The real issue is, independently of how and with what project, ========================================= = TO GET MORE PEOPLE USING THE NETWORK = = IN THE CARIBBEAN RESEARCH COMMUNITY. = ========================================= The installed base of CUNET is a lot better than nothing, but let's be fair: it is not enough. The traffic figures alone speak for themselves (and networking is much more than traffic). The critical point is that, as an undesirable side effect of the excellent marketing of CUNET, funding agencies tend to consider that the RESEARCH NETWORKS PROBLEM IS SOLVED IN THE CARIBBEAN. =============================================================== = Unfortunately, THIS IS JUST NOT TRUE, although it does lead = = to DRAWING AWAY the badly needed SUPPORT, that otherwise = = would have been available for around here. = =============================================================== A CRUDE DIAGNOSTIC OF THE CARIBBEAN NETWORKING ---------------------------------------------- This issue calls for prompt action. It begins by recognizing the objective real situation. The rest should follows naturally, namely the assignment of the required resources, with participation of the key players in this field. The Caribbean is not another northern district (indeed it is not quite Latin America either), it has proved to hold a delicate mixture of values demanding a tactful approach. It's still a long way to Caribbean integration, even in the cyber-Caribbean... FUNREDES have repeatedly insisted that a "user connectivity" component was still missing to facilitate the research and academic users growth and institutionalization (as it is tried, for instance in Cuba and the Dominican Republic). By "user connectivity" (instead of "physical connectivity") we mean a comprehensive set of actions, from decision makers sensitization, user training, user group forming, to the production and organization of national and regional information base. The reinforcing of the level of institution and the technology transfer being the key criteria of success, besides the number of real and satisfied users. FUNREDES have been unsuccessful so far to convey this message to those interested in the Caribbean and susceptible to support actions. As a matter of fact: 1) REDID received no further support after 1993, and its operation and growth have been, as a consequence, seriously affected in the period mid-1994 to mid-1995, with a total traffic decrease. With a total investment of say 75,000 US$, REDID would have turned today more than 70% of the targeted researchers into real users (instead of 25%). This is less than the cost of standing a regional meeting for making decision about what to do to solve the very problem of the Dominican network :-(. 2) FUNREDES, although a consistently active and productive field player in the Caribbean, since 1988 (see note 8), has never been called to participate in the consultive or decision regional meetings on Caribbean networks, and, furthermore, is totally absent from the list of funded NGOs in that region and in that field. It is ironical and sad to confess than FUNREDES, a non profit field oriented organization, have more success getting support from private companies than from the "funding" agencies... CONCLUSION ---------------------------------------------------------------- If the grass-root people are going to disappear, because of the lack of support, who will implement the nice strategies discussed in the regional meetings where several international functionaries gathered from all over the world to decide the future of other people who are not even involved in the process? How about a 10% "field tax" collect on these meetings to go to the people who are doing the job, back in the field? That will probably be enough to maintain the field organizations alive without preventing these meetings to happen... ----------------------------------------------------------------- One can expect that the simple facing of these figures will give some matter for reflection to the funding agencies about the productivity of their investments and about the real importance and productivity of those who are struggling in the field, with reduced support, to keep grass-roots efforts going on. How about a fair and constructive vision of Caribbean Networking? Best regards from the Dominican Republic, ========================================================================== Daniel Pimienta and colleagues from Foundation Networks and Development (FUNREDES) PO BOX 2972- Santo Domingo tel: + 1 809 535 2422 Dominican Republic fax: 535 6646 Santo Domingo pimienta!daniel@redid.org.do pimienta@aacr.us.net ========================================================================== NOTE 1: INTERNET IN THE DOMINICAN REP. -------------------------------------- May 4th, the private company AACR announced the start of its service and its willingness to cooperate for totally free access to REDID members. This was reported in KISKEYA and SALSA lists. The two other telecom operators CODETEL and TRICOM are about to market their respective services (and, hopefully, complementary or alternative offers to REDID). NOTE 2: FUNREDES AND REDID INTERNET NODES ------------------------------------------ -FUNREDES got, as a donation from SUN Corp., two Sparc Servers which will provide for the two respective nodes. -AACR offered, free of charge, the Internet connectivity via its own infrastructure, for both nodes. -CID (a British cooperation agency) is going to take care of the cost of the person to drive the technical efforts for both nodes. -FUNREDES is in the process to recruit this Unix/Internet skilled person to move along. NOTE 3: HAITI NETWORK UPDATE ---------------------------- -REHRED is still waiting funds for its technical connectivity setup (here again, the request was around 75,000 US$, and times goes on!). -REHRED steering committee is keeping on the work for the institutional and organizational layers. More people/institutions are getting involved in the process (meanwhile, most are using the commercial e-mail service available -ACN- as standard customers). -Christian Aid is supporting a part of the FUNREDES effort to assist REHRED; Senaida Jansen is about to go in mission to help the coordination group and FUNREDES is committed for a training effort to be held last trimester 95. NOTE 4: REDID TRAFFIC DATA -------------------------- These results are obtained from partial data collected from both the codemail node and the UPR2 node. We are in the process to complete the data and cross-check the results. Meanwhile, one can use the average figures since there are strong and relatively stable patterns. Stable observed patterns (period from 10/94 to 5/95): Percentage of REDID in-bound messages: 50% Percentage of out-bound messages: 50% -Of which, incoming: 80% -Of which, outgoing: 20% AVG DAILY External incoming (from Internet to REDID) = .8 Mbytes AVG DAILY External outgoing (from REDID to Internet) = .2 Mbytes AVG DAILY Internal (from REDID to REDID) = 1.0 Mbytes ___________________________________________________________________ AVG DAILY Total = 2.0 Mbytes Which makes the 30x2. = 60 Mbytes monthly figure we used. NOTE 5: REDID USER FIGURES -------------------------- REDID publish on a regular basis its user listing. After the difficult period of 1994/95, in terms of user support and installation (as a consequence from the absence of external support), REDID is in the process to reinforce its operation (with the cooperation of FUNREDES) and to update the listing. There are now some 120 end-users from 60 member institutions (not all of them having "real users"). The growth factor which have been relatively stable, between 1 and 2 new institutions per month, should climb now to an estimated 3 to 6 with the improvment of the operation and the strong Internet media attention in the country. The number of user per institutions varies from one unit to a maximum of 26 and 16, respectively for UNDP and PUCMM in Santiago (among the rare institutions having been capable to organize the REDID access via LAN). The NGOs are the most active users of REDID. Although connections are organized in several universities, the systematic in-networking of the Dominican universities is still a pending item in the national agenda (this issue escapes from REDID responsibility). Besides REDID and CUNET/PUCMM.DO, several BBS initiatives (as in INTEC) are trying to fill the gap, still open, for the students connectivity. NOTE 6: CUNET USER FIGURES EXTRAPOLATION ---------------------------------------- If one uses, as a projection factor, the ratio "data volume/user" of REDID (during the period 10/94 til 4/95) and backup it with some traffic assumptions, it is possible to guess some user figures for CUNET. Obviously, this is just an extrapolation, provided for the sake of comparison, and should be treated then as such. I wish that Cunet node administrators will correct the extrapolated figures and publish the real ones (together with the associated directories, so that to facilitate the in-Caribbean communication). -Traffic assumptions: Average data exchange volume per user per day= 16 Kbytes (which represents an average 4 messages of an average 4Kbytes). This comes from the simple scheme: 1/2 infrequent users (few msg. per week) Avg. daily= 4 Kbytes 1/4 average users (few msg. per day) Avg. daily= 12 Kbytes 1/4 frequent users (few tenth of msg.per day) Avg.= 44 Kbytes ________________________________________________________________ Total average = 16 Kbytes Which makes an average .5 Mbytes per user per month. The variance is obviously very high, and then the extrapolation process is uncertain where the user figures is very low, as in most Cunet nodes (one single active user may generate as much as 20 times more Bytes than a slow one!). It is worth noting that: -The monthly figure obtained does correspond to the REDID collected data. -Subscribed persons without an e.mail address defined or with a null traffic e.mail address are NOT considered users until they start to effectively use the services. -Some network administrators are not respecting this obvious rule, confusing administrative paperwork with electronic communication, and this is why, in the absence of homogenous data, the traffic volume is the most relevant parameter for the evaluation of the state of a network. For the CUNET node, the average of the published data has been used. USER COMPARISON TABLE ================================================================ ISO-CODE AVG MBytes PROJ. POPULATION COUNTRY COUNTRY Per Month USERS (MILLION) Antigua and Bermuda AG 1.06 2 .07 Bahamas BS 4.15 8 .25 Barbados BB 8.59 17 .26 Belize BZ 13.74 28 .19 Dominican Rep CUNET DO 3.62 7 7.00 ***Dominican Rep REDID DO 60.00 120 7.00 Grenada GR 0.63 1 .10 Guyana GY 0.10 1 .80 St. Lucia LC 11.72 24 .14 Vincent and Gren. VC 0.79 2 .11 Suriname SR 2.29 5 .42 Trinidad/Tobago TT 17.14 34 1.30 _________________________________________________________ TOTAL CUNET 66.92 129 10.64 TOTAL REDID 60.00 120 7.00 ================================================================ Note: If one takes into account the size of the population, some CUNET nodes (such as St Lucia and Belize) hold notable figures in terms of market penetration. It will be worth studying what factors have produced those interesting results. NOTE 7: REDALC METHODOLOGY REFERENCE ------------------------------------ -"Crear redes de investigadores en paises en desarrollo es otra historia", FUNREDES, 7/92 -"Research Networks in Developing Countries: Not exactly the same Story!", Proceeding of INET93, San Francisco, 8/93, FAB1-11 Stored in GNET electronic archive (FTP directory "global_net", file "research_net_guide.txt)) -"REDALC Methodology", Matrix News, 9/93 (shorter version) The Chapter V ("A private hot tub vs. a public swimming pool") is particularly relevant to the point we are making, as it tries to show, in a humoristic fashion, that: "Building a network has much to do with the gathering of people under a common and structures organizational scheme than installing hardware and software". NOTE 8: LIST OF FUNREDES ACTIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN -------------------------------------------------- 1***>REDALC WORKSHOP, Santo Domingo, 8/91: REDALC (Red de America Latina y el Caribe) is a project of Union Latina, funded by European Union and with the participation of Unesco and Funredes. The feasibility study of the project established the methodological framework for all the subsequent actions of the group. The partners will publish, by the end of the year, a comprehensive document about LA&C networking. There is no plan for execution though. The REDALC Workshop, with official guests from Dominican Rep., Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico had a strong Caribbean component and served as genesis for the launching of the Peruvian, Dominican and Haitian networks. STATUS= Executed. 2***>IMPACT STUDY OF NETWORKS IN ANTILLES FRANCAISES, with Conseil Regional on European Union budget. STATUS= Completed, June 92. 3***>REDID, May 92-May 95: successively, PTT negotiation, launch, operation, technology transfer, technical assistance for the Dominican research network. STATUS=well and alive, migration to Internet on the way. 4***>REDID USER WORKSHOP, July 92: the first organized effort in the region to provide comprehensive and massive USER TRAINING (some 100 people attended this effort sponsored by European Union, co-organized with Unesco/Cresalc which allow the gathering of several key people in that field). STATUS= Executed and documented. 5***>CARIBBEAN NETWORKS FIRST REGIONAL WORKSHOP, May 93: the first project for the meeting of all Caribbean networks field actors, organized by the Cuban, Venezuelan and Dominican people. STATUS= Last week cancelled because of lack of funding, never reorganized for the same reason. Numerous meeting has been later organized in the Caribbean about networking, none with the presence of the principal field actors. Each year since 1991, a regional meeting is organized for LA&C networks, the absence of representation of the majority of the Caribbean networks is unfortunately the norm. 6***>REHRED WORKSHOPS, May 93: the first step towards the Haitian network. STATUS= Executed and documented 7***>REHRED, may 93-may 95: the process for creation of the Haitian research network, difficult but stubborn move, in spite of the political turmoils and the persistent lack of funding (is not that surprising?). STATUS=On the move but badly need funding. 8***>KISKEYA@CONICIT.VE, mid-93; listserv for Dominican Rep. researchers (150 subscribed). STATUS= (average) ACTIVE 9***>SALSA@CONICIT.VE, mid-93: Listserv for the Caribbean (170 subscribers). STATUS= (slow) ACTIVE 10***>HAITI-L@CONICIT.VE, mid 93: Listserv for Haitian researchers (140 subscribers). STATUS= (quite) ACTIVE 11***>SALSA-TRAN, beg. 94: Project to provide automatic language translation in the SALSA listserv so that to facilitate in-Caribbean communication. STATUS= Waiting for funding. 12***>NEO-LISTSERV, 10/93: Project to enhance the management of our listservs with the coupling of an electronic archive and the creation of reference notes by an information specialist. STATUS= Waiting for funding. 13***>CARITIN (Caribbean Integration Through Information Network), 10/93: a comprehensive project for adding user connectivity and contents in the Caribbean networks. STATUS= Waiting for funding (and also for feed-back). Note: If PSG.COM wish so we could provide a copy to be stored. 14***>SAMANA: a project to gather a brain force (in Samana, Dominican Republic) to overlook the impact of the Internet in the South. STATUS= Defined, waiting for funding. 15***>TELESINERGIA: a project defined to coordinate mixed joint-ventures in the Caribbean Basin for the constitution of a competitive force to target the information market. Twenty one Caribbean related institutions have signed formal agreements to cooperate with TELESINERGIA. Taking into account the Internet evolution toward a commercial media and in answer to the NGOs funding crisis, FUNREDES have conceived its new strategical project and an original contribution to the above mentioned evolution. STATUS= Fund hunting expected soon thanks to Bolivar Program's "Enlace" mechanism. 16***>CARIBBEAN RIGHTS NETWORKING and TEACHING: Funredes has been requested, by Huridocs and Caribbean Rights, to help Caribbean Human Rights Branches their way to networking. Action made locally, end of 94, in Barbados (helping the branch connection to Cunet and training) and in Haiti. Actions to start for remote coordination with Cunet administrators now. Regional action planned last trimester in Santo Domingo for user training. STATUS= ON ITS WAY. 17***>GENDER AND NETWORKS IN THE CARIBBEAN: STATUS= DEFINITION STAGE 18***>COMPUTER MEDIATED EDUCATION FOR CARIBBEAN INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT: In partnership with ADEP-Martinique (Association pour le Developpement de la Pedagogie) and UAG (Universite Antilles-Guyane), this project targets the valorization of cultural, linguistic, social and touristic assets of the Caribbean, by the use of new information technologies. STATUS= DEFINITION STAGE 19***>TRAINING AND FORMING VIRTUAL COMMUNITY: Assistance from FUNREDES to ENDA-CARIBE for networking activities in the Caribbean. STATUS=ON-GOING 20***>FUNREDES INTERNET NODE AND WEB (with a clear Caribbean orientation) STATUS=STARTING NOW From Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu Tue May 30 13:56:20 1995 Message-Id: <9505261557.AA04282@umailsrv1.UMD.EDU> Date: Tue, 30 May 95 16:56 EDT From: Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu (am146) Subject: UUCP Traffic for Selected Caribbean nodes To: Steven G Huter Cc: randy@psg.com Status: RO Unofficial UUCP Traffic for CUNet nodes Prepared by Archie Marshall am146@umail.umd.edu ISO Country Code UUCP TRAFFIC (MBytes) ================================================================== OCT 94 NOV 94 DEC 94 JAN 95 FEB 95 ========================================== AG 1.24 0.91 0.87 1.25 1.03 BS 6.89 3.24 2.40 3.31 4.89 BB 5.07 4.81 7.65 9.78 15.66 BZ 13.92 9.78 12.63 16.05 16.31 DO 2.78 3.66 4.85 4.57 2.25 GD 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.07 0.19 GY 0.00 0.22 0.01 0.10 0.15 JM N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A LC 10.05 7.78 10.62 17.52 12.63 VC 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.29 1.29 SR 1.56 1.15 2.10 3.47 3.19 TT 10.46 9.67 13.96 24.88 26.74 ===== ====== ====== ======= ====== TOTAL 51.97 41.22 55.09 82.29 84.33 Note: Jamaica has migrated from UUCP based networks to full Internet connected networks. This data is provided for Research and Educational use only. Country ISO code Antigau and Barbuda AG Bahamas BS Barbados BB Belize BZ Dominican Republic DO Grenada GD Guyana GY Jamaica JM St. Kitts KN St. Lucia LC St. Vincent and the Grenadines VC Suriname SR Trinidad and Tobago TT Raw traffic data supplied by the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and the Commomwealth of Learning (COL). From Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu Fri May 26 08:20:26 1995 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil] [nil "Fri" "26" "May" "1995" "11:19" "EDT" "Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu" "Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu" nil "321" "Caribbean networks update (5/95) " "^Date:" nil nil "5" nil nil nil nil] nil) Message-Id: <9505261519.AA29609@umailsrv1.UMD.EDU> Date: Fri, 26 May 95 11:19 EDT From: Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu (am146) Subject: Caribbean networks update (5/95) To: Steven G Huter Cc: randy@psg.com Status: RO CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT Introduction The OAS funded CUNet project has developed considerable over the past six months, adding new UUCP sites and expanding old ones. The addition of new UUCP nodes in Belize, Guyana, St. Vincent and Trinidad has driven user levels well above the two thousand (2,000) mark. The awareness created by CUNet developments coupled with that of Internet commerce has created the scope for the development of commercial Internet services within the Caribbean. Local telecommunication companies are quickly realizing the potential of the new market and are putting in place links to deal with potential demands. The first was developed in Barbados by the local telecommunication provider - BET, with Antigua, Jamaica and Trinidad to follow soon. Network Development Telecommunications cost is still racking havoc on the development of full Internet connectivity in the academic sector of Caribbean. Moves toward mutual collaboration between institutions within the this sector has lead to the development of full Internet connectivity in Jamaica (The JAMNet project). Other islands like the Bahamas, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Trinidad are expected to follow soon. On the other hand new sites are being developed on the UUCP side of the network, doubling usage every six (6) months. UUCP Network Developments Guyana implemented its first sites in early 1995 and by the end of January three (3) CUNet sites all fully operational. it all began in late October 1994 when we began testing a CUNet node implementation at the IICA office in Georgetown. A month later, an independent researcher in Guyana with his counterpart in the US began experimenting with UUCP dial-up nodes implementation in the same city, in an effort to sensitize more people to the use of the Internet in Guyana. As a result they requested to join the CUNet project and a second node was established in Georgetown in early January 1995. The third and final node began testing on January 23, 1995 at the University of Guyana and is now fully operational. Both countries have been registering steady growth as indicated by the traffic statistics in the document Caribbean UUCP Traffic. In April 1995 we began testing another CUNet node in St. Kitts on a shared telephone line. An additional telephone line has since been requested by the Ministry of Education and this node will be fully operational as soon as the requested telephone line is installed. All other existing sites (see Appendix A) have experienced tremendous growth, with many planned expansions over the next couple of months. As the expansion continues new sites are expected in Dominica, where we are presently in dialogue with the Ministry of Education; St. Lucia, where a second site is presently in testing at the Sir Arthur Lewis College; and non OAS member states like BVI and Cayman. APPENDIX A ------------------------ COUNTRY NODE ADDRESS ADMINISTRATOR Antigua @uhsa.edu.ag - George S. Daniel UHSA School of Medicine P.O. Box 510 Saint Johns, Antigua Tel: (809) 460-1391 Fax: (809) 460-1477 e-mail: daniel@uhsa.edu.ag Bahamas @cob.edu.bs Barbara Ambrister Computer Center College of the Bahamas P.O. Box 4912 Nashua, Bahamas Tel: (809) 323-8550 Fax: (809) 326-7834 E-mail: ambri@cob.edu.bs Barbados @uwichill.edu.bb - Robert Williams Computer Center Univ. of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus P.O. Box 64 Bridgetown, Barbados Tel: (809) 425-1310 Fax: (809) 425-1327 E-mail: williams@uwichill.edu.bb Belize @ucb.edu.bz - Brian Candler Univ. College of Belize PO Box 990 Belize City Belize, Central America Tel: (501) 2-32732 Fax: (501) 1-30255 E-mail: brian@ucb.edu.bz Dominican Republic @pucmm.edu.do - Flavio Moncion Radames Mejia Pontificia Univ. Catolica Madre y Maestra Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana Tel: (809) 535-0111 Fax: (809) 535-0053 E-mail: fmoncion@pucmm.edu.do Grenada @gnc.edu.gd - Loretta Simon Grenada National College Tanteen St. George's, Grenada. Tel: (809) 440-2652 Fax: (809) 440-2123 E-mail: lindy@gnc.edu.gd Guyana @iica.org.gy Jerry LA GRA Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture P.O. Box 10-1089 Georgetown, Guyana, S.A. Tel: (592) 2-68347 or 63413 Fax: (592) 2-58358 E-Mail: jerry@iica.org.gy @jbs.org.gy Govind Jagroop Independent Researcher 55 Fourth Street Alberttown Georgetown, Guyana Tel: (592) 2-63691 E-Mail: system@jbs.org.gy @uog.edu.gy R. Samaroo Computer Studies University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus Box 101110 Georgetown, Guyana Tel: (592) 2-63691 Fax: (592) 2-54885 E-Mail: system@uog.edu.gy Jamaica @cast.edu.jm - Junior Crawford 237 Old Hope Road Kingston 6, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-1610 Fax: (809) 927-1925 E-mail: junior@cast.edu.jm @uwimona.edu.jm - Keith Manison Senate House Principal's Office Univ. of the West Indies Mona Campus Kingston 7, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-2781 Fax: (809) 927-2156 E-mail: manison@uwimona.edu.jm St. Lucia @isis.org.lc - Albert Daniels ISIS P.O. Box GM 717 Castries, St. Lucia Tel: (809) 452-3702 Fax: (809) 453-7690 E-mail: adaniels@isis.org.lc St. Vincent and the Grenadines @mcw.gov.vc - Donnie De Freitas Min. of Communications and Works. P.O. Box 58 Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Gernadines Tel: (809) 457-2279 Fax: (809) 456-2168 E-mail: system@mcw.gov.vc Suriname @uvs.edu.sr - Gerold Van Dijk Univ. Computer Center Univ. of Suriname Leysweg, POB 9212 Paramaribo, Suriname Tel: (597) 4-65558 Fax: (597) 4-62291 E-mail: gerold@uvs.edu.sr Trinidad @cariri.gov.tt - Sharon Laurent and Tobago CARIRI Tunapuna Trinidad and Tobago slaurent@cariri.gov.tt @niherst.gov.tt - Kathy-Ann Joseph NIHERST 20 Victoria Avenue Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 625-4145 Fax: (809) 625-4161 E-mail: lars_j@niherst.gov.tt @ldc.uwi.tt - Patrick Hosein Faculty of Engineering University of the West Indies St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 645-3232 x2514 Fax: (809) 662-4414 E-mail: hosein@ldc.uwi.tt @ima.gov.tt Alan Duncan IMA Hilltop Lane Chaguaramas Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 634-4291-4 Fax: (809) 634-4433 @sam.edu.tt - Vinod Bridglalsinhg vinod@sam.edu.tt NODES IN TESTING STAGE St. Kitts and Nevis Ira Mamohon College of Further Education P.O. Box 186 Bassetrre, St. Kiits, W.I. Tel: (809) 456-2090 Fax: (809) 456-5202 St. Lucia Carson Miller Sir Arthur Lewis Community College Morne, Fortune Castries St. Lucia, W.I. Tel: (809) 452-5507 Fax: (809) 452-7901 From lowcost-net-owner@psg.com Wed Mar 29 14:35:18 1995 To: lowcost-net@psg.com Subject: Document Submission From: g.richards@canrem.com (G Richards) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 17:00:00 -0500 Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario) Status: RO To the Moderator. I have been recently on contract with the Caribbean Development Bank in Barbados (West Indies) assisting them with their Internet Initiative. I have in the process accumulated some research findings wrt Internet initiatives/projects/services currently provided or being finalized. I submit the attached for your consideration: ======================== TITLE: CURRENT PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES (IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING CARIBBEAN) CONTAINING AN INTERNET OR REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS COMPONENT DATE: Current as of December 1994 AUTHOR: George Richards - Consultant, Toronto, CANADA (g.richards@canrem.com) Voice: (416) 282-8964 FAX : (416) 282-9802 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement: This data was compiled as part of a study commissioned by the Caribbean Development Bank - CDB (Management Services and Administration Department - MS&A). This document is therefore published with the permission of Mrs. Kathleen Gordon (Deputy Director MS&A). The author also wished to acknowledge the assistance of the staff and management of the Caribbean Development Bank - Project Department without whose input this document would not have been possible. Thanks also to Mr Archie Marshall (CUNet Consultant OAS), for his useful list of country contacts. Disclaimer The author is soley responsible for the content of this document. Information was derived in large part by contact with the resources described above. The author would appreciate being advised of any errors and omissions, and regrets any inconvenience caused by any such inaccuracies. Scope: The region addressed by this document are the Borrowing Member Countries (BMC's) of the Caribbean Development Bank, and others. Of these countries only the countries where response or data was available are mentioned. These include: Antigua Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Dominica Grenada Guyana Jamaica St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines St. Kitts, Nevis and Montserrat Trinidad & Tobago Background: This document was developed during the project identification phase of the CDB's current INTERNET initiative. This project is intended to enable improved regional and international telecommunications access and INTERNET connectivity to institutions, associations, consultants and Financial Intermediaries of the CDB. The purpose of the document is to identify the many and sometimes overlapping regional initiatives funded by one or more of the many multilateral lending agencies in the region. As such, further overlap would be avoided, and where possible, the stated objectives of some of these initiatives (that were still in their early stages) might be redefined. It appears that this objective has been somewhat successful in drawing together the principals of many current projects. Preamble: The information on the following projects/initiatives has been obtained (for the most part) through communication with the coordinators of many of these projects. The information presented has been supplied by these respondents and may therefore contain errors and omissions because of insufficient time and resources (on the part of the author), to verify and corroborate these statements. As additional information becomes available, this document will be enhanced and updated to reflect the current status of Internet access in the english speaking Caribbean. Current Initiatives/Services a) Agency and Institutional 1. UWIDITE 2. CUnet (An OAS initiative) - Caribbean Academic & Scientific Network 3. SEDU (OECS/UNDP/IDRC/CDB)- Small Enterprise Development Unit 4. UNDP - SIDSNET - Small Island Development Network 5. UNECLAC - AMBIONET - Ecomomic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean 6. ACCURIL - Association of Caribbean University Research and Institutional Librarians 7. CANA (ITU) - Caribbean News Agency 8. WMO (UNDP) - World Meteorological Organization 9. CET - ASYCUDA (UNDP / GDB) - Common External Tarriff 10. RSSA (CDB / EC) - Regional Space Agency 11. UWI - # Campus Link (IDB) 12. CAPACITY / 21 13. PAHO - Pan American Health Organization 14. IICA - Inter American Institute for cooperation in Agriculture This list excludes institutions and agencies that have independently contracted for direct dialup service with service providers in the US, UK, etc. b) Commercial 15. Barbados - Instant Access - The Junction - BET / Caribbean OnLine (Barbados External Telecoms) - Sandlinx / RBS - Regional Business Systems 16. Trinidad - Opus Network - TSTT - Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago 17. Jamaica - INFOCHANNEL - TOJ (Telecommunications of Jamaica) - IAI/ICL - Fujitsu ICL (Caribbean) 18. Bermuda - IBL (Internet Bermuda Ltd.) - Bermuda Communications 19. Bahamas - IBL (Bahamas) 20. USVI - ATN (CANTO) - Atlantic Telephone Networks c) Private 21. AMOCO ( American Oil Company) 22. TEXACO These services are limited to /for use by these corporations only These private corporations (multinationals) have established their own communications infrastructure based on satellite linkage to their parent in the continental USA. Essentially they bypass the local communications carriers for voice, fax, video and data. Their use is primarily for inter-company messaging and because of security concerns, their use of internet may be limited at present. d) Other Services 23. Compuserve (South America - Venezuela , and Puerto Rico) 24. Prodigy (As above) e) New Infrastructure 25. The OAS fibreoptic linkage Florida-Jamaica-Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Now operational 26. The ECFI (Eastern Caribbean Fibre Initiative). Tortola via all larger Eastern Caribbean Islands through to Trinidad & Tobago. Bridge to Venezuela and then via South/ Central America Fibre link to USA. These initiatives are funded by consortia of regional (Cable & Wireless) and offshore carriers (AT&T ), and other European Carriers (France). They are intended primarily to expand existing voice/data capabilities, but have the capacity to support significant new internet capability. Description of Selected Initiatives 1. UWIDITE (UWI - University of the West Indies) Objective: Distance education communications between UWI campus and non-campus sites. Participating Agencies: UWI, regional governments, Cable & Wireless and other equipment suppliers Area/Region: Belize, Jamaica, Cayman, Eastern Caribbean (excl Guyana) Scope of Initiative: Video and Audio conferencing with minimal Internet (e-mail) via dedicated switched lines through St. Lucia. Timing of Implementation: First Phase complete. Second phase pending phase approvals and equipment upgrades. Funding: CDB (Caribbean Development Bank) Structure/Administration: Campus-based local administrators Network control in Jamaica (Mona Campus). 2. CUNet (Caribbean Academic and Scientific Network) Objective: To enable linkage within and from educational institutions within the region Participating Agencies: OAS,the local educational institution, and local government, UWI. Area/Region: English, Spanish and Dutch states and island institutions from Belize thru to Suriname. Scope of Initiative: UUCP internet mail and conferencing. Full internet service planned in states where infrastructure is available (eg. Jamaica, Bahamas, etc.) Timing of Implementation: UUCP operational. Full Internet ongoing. Funding: OAS - Capital Costs Internet connection costs - NSF Local leased lines - local institutions Some of the local sites and networks comprising CUnet include: Belize - University College (BELINET) - PRIDE - Center for Environmental Studies - Center for Development Training - Society for Promotion of Education and Research - Institute for Central American Development Studies - CARICOM (Fisheries Division) - Belmopan Junior College - National Library Service Jamaica - UWI - Mona Campus (JAMNET) - CAST (College of Arts Science & Technology) Trinidad- UWI - Trinidad (St. Augustine) Campus - NIHERST - Trinidad - CARIRI (Caribbean Industrial Research Institute) - Caribbean Union College Bahamas - College of Bahamas St. Andrews High School Respect Academy Suriname- University of Suriname Barbados- UWI - Cave Hill Campus Antigua - UHSA School of Medicine Grenada - National College St.Lucia- ISIS Guyana - University of Guyana St.Vincent- Ministry Communications & Works 3. SEDU (Small Enterprise Development Unit) Objective: To foster and support Small Scale Enterprise Participating Agencies: IDRC Area/Region: Eastern Caribbean (OECS) Scope of Initiative: Not Known Timing of Implementation: Ongoing Funding: Not Known 4. UNDP / SIDSNET - Small Island Development Network Objective: Regional node for worldwide UNDP Small Island Development Initiative Participating Agencies: UNDP, Country governments, other agencies Area/Region: Caribbean Region (reporting to central coordinating body at UNDP New York) Scope of Initiative: All aspects of developmental planning and information exchange Timing of Implementation: Dependant on Regional initiatives Funding: UNDP - Research and facilitation Regional Governments - Self sustaining From Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu Wed Oct 26 14:33:18 1994 Message-Id: <9410262132.AA29923@umailsrv1.UMD.EDU> Return-Path: Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 17:32 EDT From: Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu (am146) Subject: Re: JamNet, etc. To: sghuter@psg.com (Steven Huter) Cc: randy@psg.com, Archie MARSHALL Status: RO Steven, Here is an update for your gopher..to October 1994... regards Archie CARIBBEAN, ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC NETWORK (CUNet) DEVELOPMENTS. prepared by: Archie Marshall am146@umail.umd.edu Preface In 1991, the Organization of American States(OAS) approved the initiative entitled "Hemisphere-Wide Inter-University Scientific and Technological Information Network"(RedHUCyT). Under this project the Caribbean Academic, Scientific and Technological Network(CUNet) was established to provide the basic infrastructure for electronic information exchange and the development of Internet connectivity. The infrastructure of this network is to serve as basis for the integration and coordination of efforts through the sharing of experiences, information, methodology, protocols, technical standards, problems and solutions related to the development of science, education and technology in the region. This project allowes for the development of dial-up UUCP and full TCP/IP Internet connected networks in Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Presently, there other nodes are being tested in Guyana, we expected that they will all be fully functional by the end of 1994. CONNECTIVITY WITHIN THE CARIBBEAN The Internet is now a buzz word in the academic and business community of the Caribbean region. Private sector companies both multi-national and local are very interested in the Internet services and some local telecommunication companies are just making moves to offer commercial connections within the region. Until recently, the private sector within the region made only limited use of the Internet services. Ninety nine percent (99%) of the traffic generated in this sector came from private companies that were either directly involved with or servicing academic and research institutions. Electronic mail was the only service available in most places, mostly through CUNet nodes. Other companies were interested in unrestricted use and only the universities and colleges had any links what so ever. Further to this many private sector entities had no exposure to the Internet at all. Access to full Internet interactive services became a reality towards the middle of this year for at least two participating institutions, with the development of full connectivity for the academic sector of Jamaica. JAMNet - the Jamaica Internet project was completed under the CUNet project connecting the University of the West Indies Mona campus and College of Arts, Science and Technology through Sprintlink and the National Science Foundation network(NSFNet) to the Internet. While new UUCP nodes were developed in St. Vincent and Guyana adding to the over twenty(20) UUCP sites scattered throughout ten(10) countries of the Caribbean region. These developments have impacted significantly on all sectors of region and as a result some local telecommunication companies are trying to move as fast as they can to make Internet connectivity available to everyone on a commercial basis through the Commercial Internet Exchange. The first commercial site was implemented around mid September by BARTEL, the Barbados local telecommunication provider. Developments in the Primary and Secondary Schools The development of connectivity at the secondary school level throughout the region has progressed slowly. Real participation by schools started in Bahamas sometime around April 1994 with teachers using the existing networks at the College of the Bahamas to gain access to the Internet. To date teachers at St. Andrews High and Respect Academy, both located in the Bahamas, are very active. Other efforts in St. Lucia and else where to get schools involved are being hampered by the lack the of knowledge and the equipment to dedicated to this effort. Much is being done to address the problems faced by schools at this time. It is expected that over the next couple of months usage within this sector will improve as key individuals become more familiar with the Internet services. For More information on the CUNet project contact Dr. Saul Hahn at the Organization of American States, Washington DC. E-mail:shahn@umd5.umd.edu POSSIBLE FIGURE HERE..... APPENDIX A THE PRESENT ACTIVE SITES ON THE CUNet NETWORK ARE: COUNTRY NODE ADDRESS ADMINISTRATOR Antigua @uhsa.edu.ag - George S. Daniel UHSA School of Medicine P.O. Box 510 Saint Johns, Antigua Tel: (809) 460-1391 Fax: (809) 460-1477 e-mail: daniel@uhsa.edu.ag Bahamas @cob.edu.bs Barbara Ambrister Computer Center College of the Bahamas P.O. Box 4912 Nashua, Bahamas Tel: (809) 323-8550 Fax: (809) 326-7834 E-mail: ambri@cob.edu.bs Barbados @uwichill.edu.bb - Robert Williams Computer Center Univ. of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus P.O. Box 64 Bridgetown, Barbados Tel: (809) 425-1310 Fax: (809) 425-1327 E-mail: williams@uwichill.edu.bb Belize @ucb.edu.bz - Brian Candler Univ. College of Belize PO Box 990 Belize City Belize, Central America Tel: (501) 2-32732 Fax: (501) 1-30255 E-mail: brian@ucb.edu.bz @cet.edu.bz Peter Dacoff Center for Employment Training. Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 44798 Fax: +501 2 33659 E-mail: pete@cet.edu.bz @ndacf.org.bz Glenda Crawford PRIDE Belize 56 Barrack Road Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 33440/32131 Fax: +501 2 31825 E-mail: glenda@ndacf.org.bz @spear.org.bz Lusiola Castillo Society for the Promotion of Education and Research PO Box 1766 Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 31668/33476 Fax: +501 2 32367 E-mail: lcas@spear.org.bz @bces.org.bz Evan S. Cayetano Belize Center for Environmental Studies 55 Eve St Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 32348 Fax: +501 2 32347 E-mail: evan@bces.org.bz @icads.org.bz Liz Miller Belize Coordinator Institute for Central American Development Studies 2 Palm Lane Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 71038 Fax: +501 2 77600 E-mail: liz@icads.org.bz @cframp.gov.bz Paul Fanning CARICOM Fisheries Management Unit PO Box 642 Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 34443 Fax: +501 2 34446 E-mail: pfanning@cframp.gov.bz @bcj.edu.bz Juan Carlos Namis Belmopan Junior College PO Box 340 Belmopan BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 8 23680/23681 Fax: +501 8 23735 E-mail: jcnamis@bjc.edu.bz @nls.gov.bz Joan Kolias National Library Service PO Box 287 Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 73401 Fax: +501 2 33415 E-mail: joan@nls.gov.bz Dominican Republic @pucmm.edu.do - Flavio Moncion Radames Mejia Pontificia Univ. Catolica Madre y Maestra Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana Tel: (809) 535-0111 Fax: (809) 535-0053 E-mail: fmoncion@pucmm.edu.do Grenada @gnc.edu.gd - Loretta Simon Grenada National College Tanteen St. George's, Grenada. Tel: (809) 440-2652 Fax: (809) 440-2123 E-mail: lindy@gnc.edu.gd Jamaica @cast.edu.jm - Courtney Walker 237 Old Hope Road Kingston 6, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-1610 Fax: (809) 927-1925 E-mail: root@cast.edu.jm @uwimona.edu.jm - Keith Manison Senate House Principal's Office Univ. of the West Indies Mona Campus Kingston 7, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-2781 Fax: (809) 927-2156 E-mail: manison@uwimona.edu.jm St. Lucia @isis.org.lc - Albert Daniels ISIS P.O. Box GM 717 Castries, St. Lucia Tel: (809) 452-3702 Fax: (809) 453-7690 E-mail: adaniels@isis.org.lc St. Vincent and the Grenadines @mcw.gov.vc Donnie De Freitas Ministry of Communications and Works. P.O. Box 58 Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Gernadines Tel: (809) 457-2279 Fax: (809) 456-2168 E-mail: system@mcw.gov.vc Suriname @uvs.edu.sr - Gerold Van Dijk Univ. Computer Center Univ. of Suriname Leysweg, POB 9212 Paramaribo, Suriname Tel: (597) 4-65558 Fax: (597) 4-62291 E-mail: gerold@uvs.edu.sr Trinidad @cariri.gov.tt - Sharon Laurent and Tobago Caribbean Industrial Research Institute, Tunapuna P.O. Tunapuna Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 662-7161 slaurent@cariri.gov.tt @niherst.gov.tt - Kathy-Ann Joseph National Institute of Higher Education, 4 Serpentine Place St. Clair Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 628-8523 Fax: (809) 622-7880 E-mail: Kathy@niherst.gov.tt @ldc.uwi.tt - Patrick Hosein Faculty of Engineering University of the West Indies St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 663-2001/ 2007 Fax: (809) 662-4414 E-mail: hosein@ldc.uwi.tt @cuc.edu.tt - David Gates Caribbean Union College P.O. Box 175 Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 662-2241/ 2 Fax: (809) 662-1197 E-mail: system@cuc.edu.tt @sam.edu.tt - Vinod Bridglalsinhg vinod@sam.edu.tt NODES IN TESTING STAGE Guyana - Anthony Willis Office of the Vice Chancellor University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus Box 101110 Georgetown, Guyana Tel: (592) 2-63691 Fax: (592) 2-54885 REVISED CARIBBEAN CONNECTIVITY SUMMARY NUMBER OF ENTITIES WITH CUNet NETWORK CONNECTIVITY = 24 BITNET Col. 2 (Entities with international BITNET links.) b: minimal, one to five domestic BITNET sites, 18 entities B: widespread, more than five domestic BITNET sites, 33 entities IP INTERNET Col. 3 (Entities with international IP Internet links.) I: = operational, accessible from entire IP Internet, 54 entities i: = operational, not accessible via the NSFNET backbone, 2 entities UUCP Col. 4 (Entities with domestic UUCP sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet.) u: minimal, one to five domestic UUCP sites, 43 entities U: widespread, more than five domestic UUCP sites, 64 entities FIDONET Col. 5 (Entities with domestic FIDONET sites which are con- nected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet) f: minimal, one to five domestic FIDONET sites, 20 entities F: widespread, more than five domestic FIDONET sites, 59 entities OSI Col. 6 (Entities with international X.400 links to domestic sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet). o: minimal, one to five domestic X.400 sites, 8 entities O: widespread, more than five domestic X.400 sites, 23 entities Email connections to Albania, Algeria, Angola, Gambia, Malawi, Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar, and Vietnam have been reported but have not been verified or are not yet stable and hence are not included in the table or in the above totals. --u-- AG Antigua and Barbuda --u-- BS Bahamas (Commonwealth of the) -iu-- BB Barbados --u-- BZ Belize --uf- BM Bermuda ----- KY Cayman Islands --U-- CU Cuba (Republic of) ----- DM Dominica (Commonwealth of) --Uf- DO Dominican Republic --u-- GD Grenada b-u-- GP Guadeloupe (French Department of) ----- GY Guyana (Republic of) ----- HT Haiti (Republic of) -iu-- JM Jamaica ----- MQ Martinique (French Department of) ----- MS Montserrat bIUF- PR Puerto Rico ----- KN Saint Kitts and Nevis --u-- LC Saint Lucia --u-- VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines --u-- TT Trinidad and Tobago (Republic of) ----- VG Virgin Islands (British) ---f- VI Virgin Islands (U.S.) Copyright 1993 Lawrence H. Landweber and the Internet Society. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice. From Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu Wed Apr 6 11:39:39 1994 Message-Id: <9404061839.AA00524@umailsrv1.UMD.EDU> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 14:38 EDT From: Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu (am146) Subject: April '94 CUNet Update for your Gopher To: randy@psg.com Status: RO Randy, Please find April '94 CUNet Update for your Gopher...New additions for Antigua, Belize and Trinidad ... Regards Archie CARIBBEAN, ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC NETWORK (CUNet) DEVELOPMENTS. prepared by: Archie Marshall CUNet Consultant am146@umail.umd.edu Introduction. In 1991, the Organization of American States(OAS) approved the initiative entitled "Hemisphere-Wide Inter-University Scientific and Technological Information Network"(RedHUCyT). Under this project the Caribbean Academic, Scientific and Technological Network(CUNet) was established to provide the basic infrastructure for electronic information exchange and the development of Internet connectivity. The infrastructure of this network is to serve as basis for the integration and coordination of efforts through the sharing of experiences, information, methodology, protocols, technical standards, problems and solutions related to the development of science, education and technology in the region. This project allowed for the development of dial-up UUCP networks for electronic mail access to the Internet in Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Other nodes in testing stage are Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, all expected to be fully functional by mid 1994. CONNECTIVITY WITHIN THE CARIBBEAN The Internet concept is not new to the Caribbean and the demand for connectivity is high. Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad, St Lucia and many of the other islands are far advance in the concepts of integrating information technology into economic development. Many of them already have professional information societies working in this area. These developments however, are not limited to the research and academic arenas, they have extended deep into the private sector. Thus a competitive force has started a race towards the development of full Internet connectivity in some areas. So as not to have this shadowed by the commercial practices, the move towards mutual collaboration between the academic and the private sector is being encouraged. This not only fosters the Internet culture, but provide for the financial foundation that is need for sustainable development. To this end new UUCP networks were developed in Antigua, Bahamas, and Belize, while network development in Guyana and Saint Vincent is well into the equipment acquiring stages. All other existing sites (see appendix A) except Grenada and Suriname have experienced fifty to two hundred percent growth in their networks, thus, placing new demands on their existing infrastructure. As a result the JAMNet project, Jamaica's Internet project has been established under the CUNet project in Jamaica and BELINet in Belize. Other countries are expected to follow suit soon. JAMNet is a digital computer network which will provide high speed interconnectivity between Universities, Colleges, Research Institutions (both Public and Private) and the Internet, based on the communication architecture of the Internet "Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" in early 1994. This network is being undertaken by Jamaica, with the collaboration of the Organization of American States, Department of Scientific and Technological Affairs(OAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). BELINet on the other hand is extending the UUCP network links right through out Belize connecting colleges and schools to the CUNet site at the University College of Belize. This site then relays electronic mail messages to the Internet for all the other sites. The existence of a full connectivity project like JAMNet can provide the backbone for the establishment and linking of IP networks in other parts of the Caribbean region. This could have a significant impact on the scientific, academic and technological development within the region. With the introduction of the Internet technology comes the need for training. As a result considerable training within the areas of network Management, technical administration and Internetworking will have to be done. To this end training programs have been developed to standardize the level of training given under the CUNet project in these areas. The end result of which is the development of local personnel for the maintenance and development these systems. APPENDIX A THE PRESENT ACTIVE SITES ON THE CUNet NETWORK ARE: COUNTRY NODE ADDRESS ADMINISTRATOR Antigua @uhsa.edu.ag - George S. Daniel UHSA School of Medicine P.O. Box 510 Saint Johns, Antigua Tel: (809) 460-1391 Fax: (809) 460-1477 e-mail: daniel@uhsa.edu.ag Bahamas @cob.edu.bs Barbara Ambrister Computer Center College of the Bahamas P.O. Box 4912 Nashua, Bahamas Tel: (809) 323-8550 Fax: (809) 326-7834 E-mail: ambri@cob.edu.bs Barbados @uwichill.edu.bb - Robert Williams Computer Center Univ. of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus P.O. Box 64 Bridgetown, Barbados Tel: (809) 425-1310 Fax: (809) 425-1327 E-mail: williams@uwichill.edu.bb Belize @ucb.edu.bz - Brian Candler Univ. College of Belize PO Box 990 Belize City Belize, Central America Tel: (501) 2-32732 Fax: (501) 1-30255 E-mail: brian@ucb.edu.bz @cet.edu.bz Peter Dacoff Center for Employment Training. Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 44798 Fax: +501 2 33659 E-mail: pete@cet.edu.bz @ndacf.org.bz Glenda Crawford PRIDE Belize 56 Barrack Road Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 33440/32131 Fax: +501 2 31825 E-mail: glenda@ndacf.org.bz @spear.org.bz Lusiola Castillo Society for the Promotion of Education and Research PO Box 1766 Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 31668/33476 Fax: +501 2 32367 E-mail: lcas@spear.org.bz @bces.org.bz Evan S. Cayetano Belize Center for Environmental Studies 55 Eve St Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 32348 Fax: +501 2 32347 E-mail: evan@bces.org.bz @icads.org.bz Liz Miller Belize Coordinator Institute for Central American Development Studies 2 Palm Lane Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 71038 Fax: +501 2 77600 E-mail: liz@icads.org.bz @cframp.gov.bz Paul Fanning CARICOM Fisheries Management Unit PO Box 642 Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 34443 Fax: +501 2 34446 E-mail: pfanning@cframp.gov.bz @bcj.edu.bz Juan Carlos Namis Belmopan Junior College PO Box 340 Belmopan BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 8 23680/23681 Fax: +501 8 23735 E-mail: jcnamis@bjc.edu.bz @nls.gov.bz Joan Kolias National Library Service PO Box 287 Belize City BELIZE, Central America Tel: +501 2 73401 Fax: +501 2 33415 E-mail: joan@nls.gov.bz Dominican Republic @pucmm.edu.do - Flavio Moncion Radames Mejia Pontificia Univ. Catolica Madre y Maestra Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana Tel: (809) 535-0111 Fax: (809) 535-0053 E-mail: fmoncion@pucmm.edu.do Grenada @gnc.edu.gd - Loretta Simon Grenada National College Tanteen St. George's, Grenada. Tel: (809) 440-2652 Fax: (809) 440-2123 E-mail: lindy@gnc.edu.gd Jamaica @cast.edu.jm - Courtney Walker 237 Old Hope Road Kingston 6, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-1610 Fax: (809) 927-1925 E-mail: root@cast.edu.jm @uwimona.edu.jm - Keith Manison Senate House Principal's Office Univ. of the West Indies Mona Campus Kingston 7, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-2781 Fax: (809) 927-2156 E-mail: manison@uwimona.edu.jm St. Lucia @isis.org.lc - Albert Daniels ISIS P.O. Box GM 717 Castries, St. Lucia Tel: (809) 452-3702 Fax: (809) 453-7690 E-mail: adaniels@isis.org.lc Suriname @uvs.edu.sr - Gerold Van Dijk Univ. Computer Center Univ. of Suriname Leysweg, POB 9212 Paramaribo, Suriname Tel: (597) 4-65558 Fax: (597) 4-62291 E-mail: gerold@uvs.edu.sr Trinidad @cariri.gov.tt - Sharon Laurent and Tobago slaurent@cariri.gov.tt @niherst.gov.tt - Lars Johnson/ Ian Furlong NIHERST 4 Serpentine Place St. Clair Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 628-8523 Fax: (809) 622-7880 E-mail: lars_j@niherst.gov.tt @ldc.uwi.tt - Patrick Hosein Faculty of Engineering University of the West Indies St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 663-2001/ 2007 Fax: (809) 662-4414 E-mail: hosein@ldc.uwi.tt @sam.edu.tt - Vinod Bridglalsinhg vinod@sam.edu.tt NODES IN TESTING STAGE Guyana - Anthony Willis Office of the Vice Chancellor University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus Box 101110 Georgetown, Guyana Tel: (592) 2-63691 Fax: (592) 2-54885 St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Donnie De Freitas Min. of Communications and Works. P.O. Box 58 Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Gernadines Tel: (809) 457-2279 Fax: (809) 456-2168 REVISED CARIBBEAN CONNECTIVITY SUMMARY NUMBER OF ENTITIES WITH CUNet NETWORK CONNECTIVITY = 9 BITNET Col. 2 (Entities with international BITNET links.) b: minimal, one to five domestic BITNET sites, 18 entities B: widespread, more than five domestic BITNET sites, 33 entities IP INTERNET Col. 3 (Entities with international IP Internet links.) I: = operational, accessible from entire IP Internet, 54 entities i: = operational, not accessible via the NSFNET backbone, 2 entities UUCP Col. 4 (Entities with domestic UUCP sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet.) u: minimal, one to five domestic UUCP sites, 43 entities U: widespread, more than five domestic UUCP sites, 64 entities FIDONET Col. 5 (Entities with domestic FIDONET sites which are con- nected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet) f: minimal, one to five domestic FIDONET sites, 20 entities F: widespread, more than five domestic FIDONET sites, 59 entities OSI Col. 6 (Entities with international X.400 links to domestic sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet). o: minimal, one to five domestic X.400 sites, 8 entities O: widespread, more than five domestic X.400 sites, 23 entities Email connections to Albania, Algeria, Angola, Gambia, Malawi, Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar, and Vietnam have been reported but have not been verified or are not yet stable and hence are not included in the table or in the above totals. --u-- AG Antigua and Barbuda --u-- BS Bahamas (Commonwealth of the) --u-- BB Barbados --u-- BZ Belize --uf- BM Bermuda ----- KY Cayman Islands --U-- CU Cuba (Republic of) ----- DM Dominica (Commonwealth of) --Uf- DO Dominican Republic --u-- GD Grenada b-u-- GP Guadeloupe (French Department of) ----- GY Guyana (Republic of) ----- HT Haiti (Republic of) --u-- JM Jamaica ----- MQ Martinique (French Department of) ----- MS Montserrat bIUF- PR Puerto Rico ----- KN Saint Kitts and Nevis --u-- LC Saint Lucia ----- VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines --u-- TT Trinidad and Tobago (Republic of) ----- VG Virgin Islands (British) ---f- VI Virgin Islands (U.S.) Copyright 1993 Lawrence H. Landweber and the Internet Society. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice. From Archie_MARSHALL@umailsrv0.UMD.EDU Wed Feb 16 14:36:44 1994 Message-Id: <9402162236.AA23104@umailsrv0.UMD.EDU> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 17:35 EST From: Archie_MARSHALL@umail.umd.edu (am146) Subject: Update for your Gopher To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush) Status: RO Randy, Please find update for your gopher on the ...included is the information on Bahamas... Regards Archie CARIBBEAN, ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC NETWORK (CUNet) DEVELOPMENTS. prepared by: Archie Marshall CUNet Consultant am146@umail.umd.edu Introduction. In 1991, the Organization of American States(OAS) approved the initiative entitled "Hemisphere-Wide Inter- University Scientific and Technological Information Network"(RedHUCyT). Under this project the Caribbean Academic, Scientific and Technological Network(CUNet) was established to provide the basic infrastructure for electronic information exchange and the development of Internet connectivity. The infrastructure of this network is to serve as basis for the integration and coordination of efforts through the sharing of experiences, information, methodology, protocols, technical standards, problems and solutions related to the development of science, education and technology in the region. This project allowed for the development of dial-up UUCP networks for electronic mail access to the Internet in Barbados, Belize, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Other nodes in testing stage are Antigua, Bahamas, Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, all expected to be fully functional by January 1994. JAMAICA'S INTERNET (JAMNet) JAMNet, the Jamaican Internet project is a digital computer network which will provide high speed interconnectivity between Universities, Colleges, Research Institutions (both Public and Private) and the Internet, based on the communication architecture of the Internet "Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" in early 1994. The key players the College of Arts, Science and Technology, and the University of the West Indies, Mona already have some considerable network facilities on their campuses. These campus networks are based on Netware IPX and the TCP/IP protocols. The University completed its FDDI ring which links its Supercomputer with the rest of the campus networks via TCP/IP. CAST on the other hand has established an ethernet backbone tunneling both IPX and TCP/IP on its campus. JAMNet is being undertaken with the collaboration of the Organization of American States, Department of Scientific and Technological Affairs(OAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The existence of the JAMNet network could provide a backbone for the establishment and linking of IP networks in other parts of the Caribbean region. This could have a significant impact on the scientific, academic and technological development within the Caribbean region. THE PRESENT ACTIVE SITES ON THE CUNet NETWORK ARE: COUNTRY NODE ADDRESS ADMINISTRATOR Bahamas @cob.edu.bs Barbara Ambrister Computer Center College of the Bahamas P.O. Box 4912 Nashua, Bahamas Tel: (809) 323-8550 Fax: (809) 326-7834 e-mail: ambri@cob.edu.bs Barbados @uwichill.edu.bb - Robert Williams Computer Center Univ. of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus P.O. Box 64 Bridgetown, Barbados Tel: (809) 425-1310 Fax: (809) 425-1327 e-mail: williams@uwichill.edu.bb Belize @ucb.edu.bz - Brian Candler Univ. College of Belize College Street West Landivar Belize City, Belize Tel: (501) 2-32732 Fax: (501) 1-30255 e-mail: brian@ucb.edu.bz Dominican Republic @pucmm.edu.do - Flavio Moncion Radames Mejia Pontificia Univ. Catolica Madre y Maestra Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana Tel: (809) 535-0111 Fax: (809) 535-0053 e-mail: fmoncion@pucmm.edu.do Grenada @gnc.edu.gd - Loretta Simon Grenada National College Tanteen St. George's, Grenada. Tel: (809) 440-2652 Fax: (809) 440-2123 e-mail: lindy@gnc.edu.gd Jamaica @cast.edu.jm - Courtney Walker 237 Old Hope Road Kingston 6, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-1610 Fax: (809) 927-1925 e-mail: root@cast.edu.jm @uwimona.edu.jm - Keith Manison Senate House Principal's Office Univ. of the West Indies Mona Campus Kingston 7, Jamaica Tel: (809) 927-2781 Fax: (809) 927-2156 e-mail: manison@uwimona.edu.jm St. Lucia @isis.org.lc - Albert Daniels ISIS P.O. Box GM 717 3 Castries, St. Lucia Tel: (809) 452-3702 Fax: (809) 453-7690 e-mail: adaniels@isis.org.lc Suriname @uvs.edu.sr - Gerold Van Dijk Univ. Computer Center Univ. of Suriname Leysweg, POB 9212 Paramaribo, Suriname Tel: (597) 4-65558 Fax: (597) 4-62291 e-mail: gerold@uvs.edu.sr Trinidad @cariri.gov.tt - Sharon Laurent and Tobago slaurent@cariri.gov.tt @niherst.gov.tt - Lars Johnson/ Ian Furlong NIHERST 4 Serpentine Place St. Clair Trinidad and Tobago Tel: (809) 628-8523 Fax: (809) 622-7880 e-mail: lars_j@niherst.gov.tt @sam.edu.tt - Vinod Bridglalsinhg vinod@sam.edu.tt NODES IN TESTING STAGE Antigua - George S. Daniel UHSA School of Medicine P.O. Box 510 Saint Johns, Antigua Tel: (809) 460-1391 Fax: (809) 460-1477 e-mail: daniel@uhsa.edu.ag Guyana - Anthony Willis Office of the Vice Chancellor University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus Box 101110 Georgetown, Guyana Tel: (592) 2-63691 Fax: (592) 2-54885 St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Donnie De Freitas Min. of Communications and Works. P.O. Box 58 Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Gernadines Tel: (809) 457-2279 Fax: (809) 456-2168 REVISED CARIBBEAN CONNECTIVITY SUMMARY NUMBER OF ENTITIES WITH CUNet NETWORK CONNECTIVITY = 9 BITNET Col. 2 (Entities with international BITNET links.) b: minimal, one to five domestic BITNET sites, 18 entities B: widespread, more than five domestic BITNET sites, 33 entities IP INTERNET Col. 3 (Entities with international IP Internet links.) I: = operational, accessible from entire IP Internet, 54 entities i: = operational, not accesible via the NSFNET backbone, 2 entities UUCP Col. 4 (Entities with domestic UUCP sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet.) u: minimal, one to five domestic UUCP sites, 43 entities U: widespread, more than five domestic UUCP sites, 64 entities FIDONET Col. 5 (Entities with domestic FIDONET sites which are con- nected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet) f: minimal, one to five domestic FIDONET sites, 20 entities F: widespread, more than five domestic FIDONET sites, 59 entities OSI Col. 6 (Entities with international X.400 links to domestic sites which are connected to the Global Multiprotocol Open Internet). o: minimal, one to five domestic X.400 sites, 8 entities O: widespread, more than five domestic X.400 sites, 23 entities Email connections to Albania, Algeria, Angola, Gambia, Malawi, Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar, and Vietnam have been reported but have not been verified or are not yet stable and hence are not included in the table or in the above totals. ----- AG Antigua and Barbuda --u-- BS Bahamas (Commonwealth of the) --u-- BB Barbados --u-- BZ Belize --uf- BM Bermuda ----- KY Cayman Islands --U-- CU Cuba (Republic of) ----- DM Dominica (Commonwealth of) --Uf- DO Dominican Republic --u-- GD Grenada b-u-- GP Guadeloupe (French Department of) ----- GY Guyana (Republic of) ----- HT Haiti (Republic of) --u-- JM Jamaica ----- MQ Martinique (French Department of) ----- MS Montserrat bIUF- PR Puerto Rico ----- KN Saint Kitts and Nevis --u-- LC Saint Lucia ----- VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines --u-- TT Trinidad and Tobago (Republic of) ----- VG Virgin Islands (British) ---f- VI Virgin Islands (U.S.) Copyright 1993 Lawrence H. Landweber and the Internet Society. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice. From shahn@umd5.umd.edu Mon Dec 13 12:49:46 1993 From: Saul Hahn Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 15:49:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199312132049.PAA10587@hamlet.umd.edu> To: devel-l@american.edu, golds@umd5.umd.edu, lhl@cs.wisc.edu, randy@psg.com, shahn@umd5.umd.edu Subject: CUNet correction Cc: goldstein@nsf.gov Status: RO CUNet-Update This is an update on the Caribbean Universities Network project, CUNet. I am pleased to inform you that Belize, as part of CUNet, has a fully operational node. CUNet is at present being administered by the Organization of American States (OAS), under the RedHUCyT umbrella project, with the collaboration of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and all the member institutions. We are embarking in a second phase which includes provisions for a full Internet connection for Jamaica using a leased 64Kbps fiber optics link to the NSF node in Homestead. We will continue expanding dial-up connectivity, through UPR, to all the remaining OAS Caribbean countries not yet in operation. In the next few weeks we expect nodes in Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Guyana, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to become fully operational. Some of these nodes are already up on an experimental basis. Current operational nodes are in: Barbados, Belize, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Suriname, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. Other nodes are in testing stage. I will keep you posted of further developments Best regards, Saul Hahn >To: Dr Saul Hahn >Subject: Belize joins CUNet >From: brian@ucb.edu.bz (Brian Candler) >Message-ID: >Date: Mon, 06 Dec 93 12:38:48 CST >Organization: University College of Belize >Status: RO >Dear Dr Hahn, >I am just writing to let you know that Belize's first CUNet >electronic mail node is now on-line. We have been polling >regularly since November 4th, and as a result of the OAS's kind >donation of a Telebit modem, our connection is now quite >reliable. >There are several other organisations in Belize which are >interested in getting connected; we are going to install a >dedicated phoneline so that other sites can dial in to UCB. >Hopefully, therefore, there will soon be other CUNet nodes >joining the network. >Thank you for the help and assistance you have provided, and I >look forward to working with CUNet and the OAS to further >develop networking in the region. >Best Wishes, >Brian Candler >(VSO computer specialist, UCB) --------------------------------------------+-------------------- >University College of Belize, PO Box 990, | Tel: +501 2 32732 >Belize City, BELIZE, Central America. | Fax: +501 2 30255 The following is a list of CUNet Coordinators, corresponding to institutions that are part of this network, connected and using e-mail regularly. Additional institutions as well as other Caribbean countries will be incorporated in the following weeks. Belize: >Brian Candler >(VSO computer specialist, UCB) --------------------------------------------+-------------------- >University College of Belize, PO Box 990, | Tel: +501 2 32732 >Belize City, BELIZE, Central America. | Fax: +501 2 30255 Jamaica: Archie Marshall 237 Old Hope Road Kingston 6, Jamaica College of Arts Science and Technology, CAST archie@cast.edu.jm Keith Manison Senate House , Principal's Office Mona Campus University of the West Indies manison@uwimona.edu.jm Suriname: Gerold H. Van Dijk University Computer Center University of Suriname Leysweg, POB 9212 Paramaribo, Suriname gerold@uvs.edu.sr Dominican Republic Flavio Moncion Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana fmoncion@pucmm.edu.do Trinidad and Tobago: Sharon Laurent Caribbean Industrial Research Institute, CARIRI Tunapuna Post Office slaurent@cariri.gov.edu Ian Furlong Lars Johnson National Institute of Higher Education, Research Science and Technology (NIHERST) Lars_J@niherst.gov.tt Saint Lucia: Albert Daniels Institute for Self Improvement, ISES adaniels@isis.edu.lc Albert H. Daniels P.O. Box GM 717 (809) 452-3702 (W) adaniels@isis.org.lc Castries, St. Lucia West Indies (809) 452-5560 (H) (809) 453-7690 (FAX) Grenada: Loretta Simon Grenada National College Tanteen lindy@gnc.edu.gd The node in Barbados has been only recently setup and may not be operational all the time. Please contact: Robert Williams williams@uwichill.edu.bb phone: 809-425-1310 Fax: 809-425-1327 For further information on CUNet you may also contact Archie Marshall, independent consultant to the OAS, at Archie@cast.edu.jm (Jamaica) or Archie_Marshall@umail.umd.edu (Internet) ==================================================== Saul Hahn, Ph.D Coordinator Basic Sciences and Networking Organization of American States Department of Scientific and Technological Affairs 1889 F-Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Tel (202) 458-3359, 3340 Fax:(202) 458-3167 ====================================================