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According to the bible (John S Quarterman's _The Matrix_), "the
Insitute for Global Communications (IGC), parent of Peacenet,
is setting up a system in Nairobi, Kenya". These folks now
have sites in the US, Canada, UK, Sweden, Nicaraugua, Ecuador, 
Brazil, Oz, and the USSR under the coalition name Association
for Progressive Communications. They use uucp connections
to give global access to local areas, and even bear the freight
for some of their more budget-strapped members. While some
of the regional sites may have links into whatever internets
they have going there, their main IGC/Peacenet/ECONET machine
in Menlo Park CA USA does uucp links to various US hubs, has
a network subscription through the DASnet forwarding service
(which can get you to telex and fax as well), and recently
got a direct Internet connection.

I haven't heard anything more about the Kenya site, but I
guess is may have something to do with the folks in Nairobi
getting their side of things ready.

Another possibility...

Once upon a time the notorious cowboy netrider Colorado Dave
Hughes talked about an associate of his who was putting
up some sort of packet radio BBS network in the Kenyan bush.
I wonder whatever became of that?

--jefu

* Jeffrey Shapard <jefu@twics.co.jp>                       "Connectivity   *
* Connect-activist and Operations Director, TWICS, Tokyo    is our biz..." *