NETWORKS & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
FUNREDES

EDITORIAL: The information system of FUNREDES

Santo Domingo, August 5th, 1996

The information sources Anonymous FTP, GOPHER and WWW of FUNREDES represent all the material that has been created since the very start of our project. In this way we hope to conserve the memory of the foundation with the purpose of sharing it with people interested in:

• The history of the scientific and academic networks in Latin America and The Caribbean
• The metodological aspects in relation to the development of the mentioned networks
• The results of the projects of certain national networks.
• The impact of the new technologies of information and communication, NTIC, in question of development.

The content of our information system is unique (more than 200 documents), it covers a bright variety of issues about development and the Internet in the South.

To process and organize this amount of information requires a lot of will and power, especially for an ONG with limited possibilities. We decided to no longer delay the publication of our information system though we know that we'll need some weeks more to complete the recollection, description, translation, and organization of all the contents. We hope you'll understand that and you'll be pacient.

We think this material could be interesting for:

 
• People who work with networks in this region or in different parts of the world.
• The representants of international cooperations, wether they are from multilateral or bilateral oganizations.
• People investigating about NTIC's, Latin America, The Caribbean or development in general.
• Any person who is interested in the mensioned themes.

Organization of FUNREDES' information system

Our information system consists of three levels: Anonymous FTP, GOPHER and WWW allow the user to access the same information in different ways (See technical information).

 
1. An anonymous FTP-Server lets users access the documents directly in different directories (proyectos, ponencias, publicaciones, notas de correo, misceláneos), following table (1).

        URL     : ftp://ftp.funredes.org
        login   : anonymous
        password: (your e-mail address)
    

   Note: People who only have an e-mail access can use FTP-mail.

    

2. A gopher-server lets the user navigate in a menue-structure to find a file. The menue consists out of:
    
   • Institutional data
   • Projects
   • Publicationes
   • Conferences (Information about conferences in which we participated as expositor)
   • Services

        URL: gopher://gopher.funredes.org:70

    

3. A WWW-Server lets users navigate via hypertext links to find the information he/she is looking for.

   Note: The documents about 'Projects' and 'Publications' can be found under 'Activities'.

        URL: http://www.funredes.org:70

THEMES
	
	Metodology					METO
	Socioeconomical vision				SOCI
	Users						USUA
	Information sources				RINF
	Information					INFO
	Education					EDUC
	Interface					IFAZ
	Health						SALU
	Networks					REDS
	Genre						GENR
	Democracy					DEMO
	Other TEIC					TEIC
	Observing Tecnology				VIGI
	Virtual Communities				COMU
	Global 						GLOB
	Telecom (relation)				TELE
	Librarians - Cybernauts				BIBL
	Formation, Sensibilisation			FORM
 
	REGION AND COUNTRY
 
	Dominican Republic				DO
	The whole world					WW
	Haiti						HT
	The Caribbean					CA
	Venezuela					VE	
	Africa						AF
	Latin America					AL
	Asia						AS
	Latin America and The Caribbean			AC
	Eastern Europe				 	EE
	
	Standard ISO 		XX
 
 
	LANGUAGE
 
	Spanish		C		English		E
	French		F		Italian	 	I
	Other		O
 
 
	YEAR
 
	From 1988 until 1996