I'd been often thinking about the news sometimes heard from goverment oppressed rebel groups using Internet successfully to avoid getting killed by the army, for example, so today's Wired news story about Net Politics meeting in Berkeley was interesting. Basicly they state that "people don't need internet to create democrazy" and use China as an example where the Net is a highly elitist thing.

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/11529.html

Net Politics: a Mover, But Not a Shaker
                        by Alex Cohen 

                        5:04am  8.Apr.98.PDT
                        BERKELEY -- Despite Net censorship efforts
                        worldwide, the Internet has evolved into a
                        conspicuous billboard and forum for political
                        and other forms of controversial speech. But
                        what's the net impact of all this political
                        posting in the real world?

http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/11379.html

Technician Dream Job: Wiring
                     Guatemala
                     by Sara Miles 

                     5:02am  1.Apr.98.PST

                     The Global Development Center is a small,
                     maverick, international, humanitarian assistance
                     group with a bare-bones staff, hand-to-mouth
                     funding, and enough audacity to run rings around
                     the Peace Corps. Right now, for example, Director
                     Bob Adams is looking for two technicians - ideally
                     one hardware and one software geek - to help wire
                     up all of Guatemala in the next couple of years.

http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/11340.html
Wealth Is Overrated
(mind over matter or something like that)

http://www.factory.org/nettime/archive/1546.html
EFF comments Cook's flame on .nettime and writes about Human Rights etc.

Information and communication technologies and the Internet as a form of humanitiarian aid

http://www.factory.org/nettime/archive/1507.html
"The National Geographic Society is doing a survey about migration and
                      community. If you are interested in the effects of migration and the changes
                      going on in geographic communities, contact Valerie May
                      <[email protected]> Community Networks already in existence may
                wish to host "Map the Global Village" sessions for this ambitious project."

Random hits from Altavista:

http://altavista.telia.com/cgi-bin/query?mss=nl%2Fsearch&pg=q&country=nl&what=web&kl=&q=
Information+and+communication+technologies+and+the+Internet+as+a+form+of+%2B%22humanitiarian+aid%22

Er werden geen documenten gevonden die aan uw vraag beantwoorden

+internet and +"developing countries"http://altavista.telia.com/cgi-bin/query?mss=nl%2Fsearch&pg=q&country=nl&what=web&kl=&q=%2Binternet+and+%2B%22developing+countries%22

1. communication mailing list: The GII in Developing Countries
http://jrsummit.jrsummit.org/hypermail/archives/communication/0619.html - size 2K - 18-Mar-1996 -

2. VITAsat and Globe in Developing Countries. Joe Sedlak [email protected].
http://www.vita.org/globe.html - size 2K - 21-May-1996

3. Telecom Observer Cyberevolution: Developing countries hit the information high
By Ram Etwareea, InfoSud, Tribune de Genève Translated by Telecom.
http://telobs.com:8011/TelecomObserver/Revolution/6/Welcome.E.html - size 13K - 18-Dec-1995 -

4. THE INTERNET SOCIETY - GENEVA CHAPTER.
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
http://www.isocgva.ch/isoc/devsig/BGInfo.html - size 4K - 19-Nov-1996

What does HotBot know about Finnish "kehitysyhteistyö"

http://www.search.hotbot.com/hResult.html?SM=MC&MT=kehitysyhteisty%F6&DV=7&OPs=MDRTP&am p;RG=.com&DU=days&_v=2&NUMMOD=0&act.search.x=9&act.search.y=13
"statistics experiment" http://virtual.finland.fi/kyo/tae97.html
OECD about Finland: http://www.oecd.org/dac/htm/42finlan.htm(Major Recipients of Individual DAC Members'Aid (continued)

.. and internet?

kehitysyhteistyö, internet

Department for International Development Cooperation, updated 1997-12-17
http://virtual.finland.fi/kyo/intdev.html, [email protected]
"Jungle drums consigned to museum? The Internet is expanding rapidly everywhere"

ISOC

Inet'98

Developing Countries Networking Symposium

97: "Beyond Basic Connectivity"
http://www.isoc.org/inet98/devconf.shtml

                                 20 - 21 July 1998
                                 Palexpo Conference Center
                                 Geneva, Switzerland

OnTheInternet (ISOC journal)

Good article for isoc/dev.countries background perspective, Nov/Dec 1996

The Internet Society and Developing Countries
by George Sadowsky [email protected]
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/publications/oti/articles/isoc.html

Selected topics from the issues year 1997, many about dev. countries

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/publications/oti/tocs/1997title.shtml

Addressing the Information Gap
By Paula Uimonen (November/December 1997)

Africa at INET'97 (September/October 1997)

Albania (November/December 1997)

Argentina (November/December 1997)

Bulgaria (November/December 1997)

Cambodia: From Isolation to Communication
By Norbert Klein (November/December 1997)

Creating Health Information Networks in the Developing World
By Pedro Urra Gonzales (November/December 1997)

Cyberspace Hospital
by K. C. Lun, E. Loke, Y. N. Lee, T. W. Tan, F. K. Chan (January/February 1997)

Down with technology! An ever-widening gap between information haves and have-nots! The sky is falling! The end is near!
by Janet Perry (March/April 1997)

Editorial Strategies for Development: From Thought to Action
By Alan McCluskey (November/December 1997)

El Salvador (November/December 1997)

Finding a Way into the Global Community for Rural South Africa
By Yorke Rodda (November/December 1997)

Ghana (November/December 1997)

Guatemala (November/December 1997)

India (November/December 1997)

The Internet and Global Trade: Potential for the Asia-Pacific Region
by Madanmohan Rao. (January/February 1997)

Internet and Telemedicine in Taiwan
by Chung-Chuan Yang (March/April 1997)

Internet Connectivity for Africa
By Mike Jensen, [email protected] (September/October 1997)
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/publications/oti/tocs/africa.shtml

Internet Megatrends in the Asia-Pacific Region
by John Tsui (March/April 1997)

Latin American Women Take On the Internet
By Sally Burch (November/December 1997)

Liberia (November/December 1997)

Mexican Women's Movement Makes the Internet Work for Many Women
By Erika Smith (November/December 1997)

Morocco (November/December 1997)

Namibia (November/December 1997)

Papua New Guinea (November/December 1997)

Paraguay (November/December 1997)

Philippines (November/December 1997)

Policy Constraints to Electronic Information Sharing in Developing Countries
By Mike Jensen (November/December 1997)

Social Applications of the Internet in Brazil
By Tadao Takahashi (November/December 1997)

State of the Japanese Internet 1997: Such Distance Traveled, So Far to Go
By Bruce Hahne (May/June 1997)

Togo (November/December 1997)

Who Holds the Seats at the Policy-Making Table? · Zambia (July/August 1997)

WTO Telecommunication Agreement · Connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean (May/June 1997)

Uzbekistan (November/December 1997)

"the Internet is important for the nongovernmental sector because it enables those in that sector to work as a team to solve problems in such areas as social status, ecology, and mass media."