@@38================================================================= Message-Id: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 13:22 PDT From: [email protected] (Randy Bush)To: Pimienta Daniel <[email protected]>
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>> As for the development of commercial alternatives for Internet
>> connectivity, I agree with you about the advantages that present,
>> however, I am also convinced that could be a threaten for the vitality
of
>> research and NGO networking if they do not get organized soon
>> enough to be a valid partner.
> Do others share this fear?
NGOs running networks are as critical to the development of society as NGOs running telephone companies, elcecto power, ... I.e. not.
This is a discussion I have had with Steve Fram for many years. What NGOs have to offer the world is social content, not wires. Spend to much energy on wires and an NGO will forget content and become socially irrelevant. Stick to content, hammer it home, and let whoever wants to run the wires, and you can effect social change.
Modulo that, if there are no wires, an NGO may be appropriate to start them. Similarly, you may have to run your printing press on self-generated electricity; but one hopes not for long. But deciding to make it a principal part of their mission is analogous to needing shoes so running a footware company.
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