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Projects
 Acacia Initiative (International Development Research
Centre), The
- The Acacia Initiative is an international effort to empower sub-Saharan African
communities with the ability to apply information and communication technologies to their
own social and economic development.
Last updated on 1/16/98
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- African email and Internet access
- This is a system of clickable maps which will enable you to obtain further information
about E- mail and Internet access in an African country of your choice.
Last updated on 1/6/98 by Dirk Staatsen. Submitted by Alex Janosek
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- GetWeb (provided by
SatelLife)
- GetWeb provides access to the World Wide Web through simple exchange of e-mail messages.
With GetWeb, you can download information from World Wide Web pages, follow links from one
Web page to the next, access Gopher and FTP sites, and conduct Web searches.
Last updated on 1/4/98 by Dirk Staatsen
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- Informatics in
Developing Countries
- A WWW site for Informatics in developing countries. This page contains journals, gopher
sites, organizations and literature concerning developing countries.
Last updated 2/12/96 by Cliff
Missen
- Informatics
2000 Initiative
- Recognizing that information technology can lower operating costs,
increase efficiency and productivity, empower organizations and people, and improve the
quality of life, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has launched an Informatics
2000 Initiative to encourage the deployment by the public and private sectors of
significant information technology applications by the Year 2000 in support of economic
growth and social development throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Last updated on 1/16/98 by Dirk Staatsen
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- Leland Initiative (USAID)
- The Leland Initiative is a five-year $15 million US Government effort to extend full
Internet connectivity to approximately twenty African countries in order to promote
sustainable development. The Leland Initiative ( LI ) seeks to bring the benefits of the
global information revolution to people of Africa, through connection to the Internet and
other Global Information Infrastructure (GII) technologies.
Last updated on 1/4/98 by Dirk Staatsen
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- RINAF (Regional Informatics Network for
Africa)
- The RINAF project is meant to bring basic data communication services to a number of
african countries in order to improve the communication capabilities among African
research institutions and improve the communications with the worldwide research
community. Their goals include: creating a group of technicians specialized in the
African network services management; to increase the awareness on the importance of data
network services in Africa; to contribute to the cultural growth of the institutions
hosting the RINAF nodes; to leave, at the end of the project, a structure that may be
completely handed over to one or more regional centers able to manage the data network
services for Africa.
Last updated on 12/7/97 by Dirk Staatsen
These pages were originally created by Dirk
Staatsen and last updated July 19, 2002. Pages
are ã Cliff Missen 1994-1999. Please send
feedback and updates to intlinet@uiowa.edu
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