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From: Laura Agustin
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00
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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