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Hi Pete,

Your message about community based digital post offices is interesting.
I have been doing some work for the UN Food and Agriculture on Internet
use for rural and agricultureal development and I have been doing lots of
travellling
I am in Chile at the moment, telneting into Guelph)

I have noticed that T(elecentres(and CyberCafes are springing up
everywhere.  I have been to such outfits in Senegal, Egypt, the
Netherlands and Mexico.  They provide email and www access to people who
cannot aford computers, or who are travelling and want to telnet to their
home accounts.  Typical charges are about $3 U.S. per hour.  In Senegal
you can send individual email messages for about $0.25 U.S. each.

I have heard that in Malaysia
I need to verify this) that their are village email postiffices that work
sort of like the old telegraph systems of the past.  Each village has its
own email address and individual messages are delivered to people once
they are printed out.

I am proposing that FAO considere supporting similar initiatives in rural
and remote communities of Africa and Latin America, housed within NGOs
that are open to local community members.  Some services of a similar
sort are already operating in Chile and Mexico.

I too would welcome information on such services in other regions.

Cheers,
Don Richardson
devmedia list-facilitator)