ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (05/24/91)
In article <1991May23.211452.17937@netcom.COM> jms@netcom.COM (John Schonholtz) writes: >In article <1991May23.115550.966@darwin.ntu.edu.au> b_duke@darwin.ntu.edu.au (Brian Duke) writes: >>How many sites in real developing countries are on the net. Is this group >>going to be another case of the well developed pontificating about the less >>developed? There are roughly 50 institutions in India, mostly Universities and Research Labs which have access to Internet for email ONLY. As far as I know, a very small fraction of these (< 5 for sure) get a newsfeed. Many private companies have access to Internet, a fallout of the above networking efforts. I routinely interact with my sisters in Bombay by email as a consequence. Reading and writing news is not too common, because it's quite new and because only a few organisations have it in the first place. There are tremendous computer skills in India, the stumbling block here is a fabulously inefficient state-owned telecom system. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________