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From: Laura Agustin
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00
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My own project works with people migrating from the South to the North, in
this case from Latin America to Europe, and crossing boundaries in Europe
without fixed addresses.  This summer I am going there with a laptop and
listservs to which people can send messages (they may be migrants or they
may be ngos or resident individuals). The laptop has telnet capacity to a
university account where mail will be received.

How can I solve the issue of connection to service providers? I am poor, I
will be staying wherever I can and sometimes that will be a place with no
place to plug in a telephone. Even if I can plug in the machine I won't have
accounts with service providers in every country I visit. I will want Web
access as well. I don't have connections in universities.=20

Does anyone see how this can work concretely? Europe of course is filled
with access, but how can outsiders plug into it?
I need to test this myself in person; the migrants are leaving from Latin
America and will in many cases be people who don't have even telephones,
much less know what the Internet is.

Thank you,
Laura Agust=EDn
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