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Article #468Re: mobile access
From: Erik Nielsen
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00
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I am also very interested in this -- if anyone has an answer -- please make sure that you send the "solution" to the entire list. Thanks, Erik Nielsen >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 hav= e >accounts with service providers in every country I visit. I will want Web >access as well. I don't have connections in universities. > >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 ******************************* Erik Nielsen Department of Communication Cornell University 336 Kennedy Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA en19@cornell.edu 607-273-7182 (voice) 607-255-7905 (fax)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105940,99184aa1b1fa724d X-Google-Attributes: gid105940,public From: Erik Nielsen <en19@CORNELL.EDU> Subject: Re: mobile access Date: 1997/04/08 Message-ID: <v03010014af6f34ed5db9@[132.236.155.181]> X-Deja-AN: 231462883 Sender: Media for Development in Democracy <DEVMEDIA@LISTSERV.UOGUELPH.CA> X-Sender: en19@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu Comments: ******************************************************** Newsgroups: bit.listserv.devmedia