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In <1992Aug27.023154.7463@athena.mit.edu> ccrazy@athena.mit.edu (Ellen Kranzer) writes:

> Position Open:  Project Officer for Electronic Communications
> Organization:  Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities 
> (LASPAU).

> Responsibilities:  Cooperates with LASPAU staff to ensure that Fulbright 
> scholars are connected to BITNET and the Internet at their host 
> universities.  Develops an electronic network of Fulbright scholars in the 
> United States and Fulbright alumni in Latin America.  On behalf of and in 
> cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean universities -- with the 
> assistance of consultants to LASPAU -- develops and oversees plans to 
> provide "value added services" to increase  electronic-mail message volume 
> and the number of users in Latin American and Caribbean academic and 
> research institutions.  Maintains electronic mail lists for other projects. 
> Reports to Program Director.   

> Hiring Salary:$26,400 - 33,800/year

Boy, seems like LASPAU is willing to dump $30k a year on an unnecessary task.

All you really have to do, LASPAU, is identify (using this very medium) the
existing email systems throughout Latin America, and get your scholars off
their collective asses and hooked up.  Virtually all Latin American countries
have academic or non-profit email systems (reachable or connected to the
Internet and/or Bitnet) of one sort or another.  The few that don't have 
X.25 public data networks which allow users to connect to email systems in
other countries (neighboring or otherwise).

Cesar Galindo (the Mexican PhD candiate in computer science, who was doing
work with LASPAU) -- I think that's his name -- should know all of this!

 -Theodore Hope
  Proyecto Huracan - Fundacion Nahual
  San Jose, COSTA RICA