[Computerbank] Salon.com Technology | Building the underground computer railroad

[Romana Challans]

*sigh* was there a reason I bothered?:)

A simple point - we dont have to do either/or people....sharing contacts 
overseas, exchanging links on website, may get us somwhere. It may just get 
us nothing but a link.

But it certainly reinforces us acting like a community.

The East Timor thing sounds great btw:)

romana:)


On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:22 pm, Dave Fregon shared:
> There's something similar happening in Australia called the East Timor
> Community Computer Project http://www.etccp.org.au.
>
> They take containerloads of PC's over to East Timor, and have a few members
> over there building and teaching.
>
> I'm sure they would love to hear from CAI,  I myself would like to see some
> mutual aid in this direction, only 600km (from memory) from Darwin , it's a
> great cause, and from past emails with Margret, they also have planned
> bringing a student over here to learn how to fix laptops etc, he's keen and
> has translated computer texts into the native trading tongue of East Timor.
> Maybe something in regards training etc??
>
> Maybe something could be arranged with regard to CAI and helping out this
> group, rather than looking overseas to the USA? We have a lot in our
> general area of the world where we can network for mutual aid... the folk
> involved are some of the most friendly and accessible people I know.
>
> I've CC'd Margret the Melbourne contact, for her interest, I hope that's ok
> ..
>
> Dave Fregon
>
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:18, Romana Challans wrote:
> > http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/23/antiglobal_geeks/index.html
> >
> > I think we need someone to comment asap on this please - lets carpe
> > publicity!!!
> >
> > Also, we shld be making contact with group featured - links etc on
> > websites....
> >
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