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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:31:18 CDT
From:         CMARINHO@ccvax.unicamp.br
Subject:      "Net.Initiative.in.Development.Economics"

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Hello:

After  a short time of 'neural networking' with some  direct
responses  to my posting ('The Net: Third World  info-hunger
redemption?'),  I decided to step  out with what I called  a
'Net.Initiative.in.Development.Economics'.  This  is  a  new
offering  to all  economic-info-thirsty navigators who  look
(as  I  do)  for  full-text,  end-user information.  It's  a
dynamic   anonymous   FTPable   repository  of   papers   in
development  economics (and  political economy as a  whole),
with  special emphasis on developing countries. *Dynamic* in
the  sense that we not only stimulate uploads of files  like
<fiction   on>   'Bush91-on-external-debt.zip'   but    also
'Clinton92-on-Bush91.zip'  and  'Bush92-replies.zip'<fiction
off>.

The  initiative came as a  consequence of the belief I  have
that  the 'data/info for action' problem does not belong  to
data   processing   people   alone,  but  for  all   of   us
net.navigators.   I  guess  what  we  need  is  some  people
specifically  working out an "interface solution" for all of
us  in-through-output guys on the net. By that I mean  there
should  be  an effort by  some us to act-as-if we were  "the
other",  i.e.,  some of  you data people changing roles  for
awhile with us end-users -- and then devising solutions with
your  specialty capacities *as  applied* to other fields  of
knowledge  --  and  the  other  way round. So,  that's  what
N.I.D.E.  is  all  about:  somebody has crossed  the  border
between  'them' and 'us'.  Hope you pacslistees help me  out
there.

How?  Please  tell  them  all (specially  those  researchers
willing   to  know  what's  new  on  the  net  in   economic
full-texts)   that   we   welcome  their   papers   (essays,
articles-in-progress,  research  projects, thesis  abstracts
etc.)  and invite them  to visit our subdirectories here  at
the State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. And you
know  what?  They'll find,  as an aperitif, *beginning  this
weekend*,  the nearly completely uploaded results of a  huge
research   (29 papers and growing) on the state of Brazilian
industry  done  by  our  Economics  Institute  --  something
similar to MIT's "Made in America", and that's the reason we
call it informally "Made in Brazil".

To access N.I.D.E.:

ftp ccsun.unicamp.br
login anonymous
your e-mail address <please>
cd /pub2/documents/papers/economics/incoming
type 'typeme' <and you'll find instructions on how to
              download/upload files; try 'cd ../ie.unicamp/
              research.results' to see the "Made in Brazil"
              papers>

Any  doubt,  please feel free  to contact me at  the  e-mail
addresses below. Thanks. See you on the net.

Claudio Marinho
IE/Unicamp
Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
cmarinho@bruc.bitnet
cmarinho@ccvax.unicamp.br
cmarinho@ccsun.unicamp.br
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU