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Re: mobile access

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From: Erik Nielsen
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




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Cornell University
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USA


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