I really appreciate your valuable contribution to the task to put some lights into the Caribbean networks user figures. I will resent your note to the people who are participating in the on-line discussion and where not in your distribution list (the cc:).

I understand from your data that in Suriname there is:
261+40= 301 registered users
of which 75+20= 95 had logged in the system within the last 7 days.

I am prepararing more list of users from some other locations where I managed to get data. I used the last week
logged in as a criteria for active users and the last 2 days as a criteria for very active users. Could you add to the picture the numbers of users who has logged in within the last 2 days?

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.

Thanks again for your help,
Daniel Pimienta

PS: I am conserving, in a chronological pattern, all the exchanges
of the debate for further publication and for sending on request to any person interested in the matter.
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