Message-ID: <199604041239.GAA25901@zeus.anet-chi.com> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 06:57:50 -0600 From: William Paris <mailto:cpc@ANET-CHI.COM> Subject: Telecommunications Developement To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
My apoligies on the first message,full text follows:Date: 1-APR-1996 15:58:17.70 NEWMAIL From: IN%"mailto:bhart@nywork2.undp.org" To: IN%"mailto:sard-news@nygate.undp.org" CC: Subj: INFORUM March update
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INFORUM is developing a training support program in response to increasing requests for assistance to train people how to use electronic communications tools to facilitate the exchange of technical information. This demand for training support comes from both INFORUM's networking program, that helps collaborating institutions develop electronic networks, and from our electronic conferencing activities that we have been implementing in collaboration with FAO and UNDP. Training is a key activity of the FIDAMERICA project in which INFORUM is working with RIMISP (Red Internacional de Metodologia de Investigacion de Sistemas de Produccion) to develop a network connecting IFAD-funded development projects in Latin America. Lessons learned from this project will be used to develop INFORUM's training program.
This month RIMISP and INFORUM organized a workshop in Sucre, Bolivia for IFAD projects in the Andean region and in Puebla, Mexico for IFAD projects in Central America, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. Both workshops included a 1-day introduction to basic concepts and 3-days of hands-on experience in front of computers. The first day included a discussion of how community development projects can take a participatory approach to under-standing the information needs of local decision makers. The training in using electronic mail, subscribing to an email list, participating in a moderated electronic conference, and using the World Wide Web to search for information, was organized within the context of how to respond to the demand for information by local decision-makers. A third workshop will be organized in Santiago, Chile in April for IFAD projects in the Southern Cone of SA.
In order to set up the 3-day hands-on training in the FIDAMERICA workshops, INFORUM and RIMISP set up a network of inter-connected clients computers connected to a server. In both Bolivia and Mexico, 14 computers in one room were connected to a server with mail server software and full PPP or Slip access to the Internet. Because of the high travel and per diem costs associated with bringing together 28 students for a workshop, we concluded that it would be prudent to invest in a backup network in case a problem should occur with the local client/server network. A portable client/server network was set up with Windows NT on a laptop computer with mail server, listserver, and HTTP server software. A hub to connect up-to 16 computers and ethernet cards was available if needed. In addition to being able to use any of the components of the back-up network (in Bolivia the back-up hub was used to replace local hardware), RIMISP and INFORUM are considering using the portable network for training on how to set up and use distributed databases.
Please contact Bob Hart (mailto:bhart@undp.org) if you have suggestions regarding INFORUM's new training program or are interested in INFORUM's services.
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