Message-ID: <0098EC8872AA71E0.0000333F@tmar.com> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 18:05:24 EST From: "Chuck B. at Ext. 214" <mailto:chuckb@TMAR.COM> Subject: Telecom-related posting 2 To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
And the other posting about telecom (with interesting references
to space-based technologies).
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 10:55:00 EDT
Originally-From: mailto:Ben.Parker@hornet.sasa.unep.no in web:list.africana */
Subject: African net symposium (from an article by Tony Hall)
A full house of telematics conference delegates at Africa Hall
in Addis Ababa yesterday heard a range of high level calls for
coordination so that Africa can be ready for full Internet
connectivity, and move on to the Information Superhighway with
it own strategies and priorities in order. [The opening speaker
described the use of telematics as a prerequisite for scientific,
social and economic development, setting the tone for the conference.]
Just as telematics has rapidly brought together the worlds
of computing and
telecommunications, so telecoms authorities and electronic
networkers must get to know each other and work together - and
so must the different networking projects around the continent.
That was the thrust of a number of addresses from senior
representatives of international and government agencies at the
opening of the week-long African Regional Symposium on
Telematics for Development conference at the UN Economic
Commission for Africa (ECA) headquarters in the Ethiopian
capital.
The gathering of more than 250 information specialists,
users, donors and
policymakers is the first to focus on telematics. It brings
policymakers and users face to face, at a crucial time to share
ideas and work out ways of easing national regulations and fees
to usher Africa into the information age.
....
Space-based systems will be increasingly important, such as the
low-orbit satellites used by the agencies HealthNet, Satellife, and
VITAnet, which send messages as the satellite passes overhead.
And VSAT will become very important in providing cost-effective
national links, with personal earth stations at around $10,000,
and $1,000 a month to run.