From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: What is IGC (Institute for Global Communications)? (autopost)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:30:08 GMT

IGC is the organization which maintains PeaceNet and EcoNet (see the
postings describing them) as well as two smaller networks, ConflictNet
(conflict resolution) and HomeoNet. Their blurb --

    The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is a division of the
    Tides Foundation, a nonprofit corporation under section 501(c)(3)
    of the IRS code. All donations to IGC are tax-deductible, and can
    be made through the Tides Foundation at 1388 Sutter Street, 10th
    Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109.

IGC is a (founding) member of the Association for Progressive
Communications (APC), with over 11,000 worldwide members ranging from
individual users, to peace/justice/human-rights/ecology/etc
organizations, to NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations). Enclosed
below is an article about the APC from IGC's monthly "NetNews,"
followed by a listing of the other APC member "nodes." At "@igc.org"
for (internet) email to the addresses given for those.

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IGC's address:

    IGC
    18 De Boom Street  
    San Francisco, CA 94107 
    (415) 442-0220 
    (415) 546-1794 fax 

Or by Email:

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    To send email to an IGC (EG PeaceNet or
    Econet) account "abc" just substitute "abc"
    for "peacenet" in the following:

    Internet: peacenet@igc.org

    Bitnet:    cdp!peacenet%labrea@stanford
    UUCP:      uunet!pyramid!cdp!peacenet
    DASNet:    [DE3MIR]peacenet
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	For general questions/help, substitute
        "support" for "peacenet"

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APC News 
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IGC regards international cooperation and partnership as essential in 
addressing peace and environmental problems.  Towards these goals, IGC 
was a founding member of the Association for Progressive Communications 
(APC) which now includes low-cost computer networks in eight countries. 
Jeremy Mortimer is APC's technical coordinator and reports here on APC's 
involvement in international networking. 

"As activists all over the world discover the possibilities of 
electronic communications, computer networks spring up to serve them. 
Usually run by the activist communities themselves, these networks 
initially serve a small group of organisations, or a small geographic 
area, but soon develop a need to be involved in international 
communications. 

"The APC has developed a role in connecting these systems. We hope in 
some cases that they will eventually become new members of the APC. In 
other cases, we simply work with them to ensure that users of both 
networks have access to all the information and connections they need in 
their work.  Sometimes this means setting up e-mail exchange only; other 
times the connection involves shared conferences as well. 

"The London-based Poptel system (GeoNet) serves hundreds of 
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) all over the world, and a link to 
APC systems was an early priority.  London-based APC member GreenNet 
developed the software to accomplish both an e-mail and conference 
exchange -- not an easy task as the systems are substantially different. 
You will find a list of conferences imported from GeoNet in the 
'conferences' conference, under the "GeoNet" topic. 

"Networks are springing up quickly around Latin America. In addition to 
the Brazilian and Nicaraguan APC nodes (Alternex and Nicarao, 
respectively), the United Nations Development Program has been 
sponsoring the creation of systems in Costa Rica (Huracan), Ecuador 
(Ecuanex) and Bolivia (Unbol).  (See the 'intlaccess' conference, where 
there is a topic for each country, for more information about each of 
these networks.)  The Instituto del Tercer Mundo in Uruguay, which has 
run an NGO network (CHASQUE) for the last 18 months, has recently 
applied for APC membership.  For more information about CHASQUE, send 
e-mail to 'chasque'. 

"Single-user bulletin-board systems (BBSs) based on the popular 'Fido' 
program are such a common first step for activist groups that we have 
developed software to allow APC systems to talk to them. Fido 
connections are in place at GreenNet (UK) and Web (Canada), and are 
being installed at other APC nodes including IGC. Fido systems as far 
afield as Estonia, Czechoslovakia and several African countries are now 
connected. 

"The German political network, ComLink, which runs a type of BBS 
software called Zerberus, has also applied to join the APC. A link 
between our networks and theirs, which includes shared conferences, has 
been in place for several months.  (See NetNews, October 1990.)  In 
addition, the Moscow-based International Foundation for the Survival & 
Development of Humanity will soon open GlasNet, our future APC partner 
in the Soviet Union." 

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Topic 23        IGC NetNews - May 1991 v5 n4    Response  3 of  8 
jillaine 
netnews  4:48 pm  May 20, 1991 
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APC Partner Networks 
==================== 

Alternex  
IBASE  
Rua Vicente de Souza 29  
22251 Rio de Janiero BRAZIL  
+55 (21) 286 0348  
fax: +55 (21) 286 0541  
e-mail:  ax!suporte 

ComLink*  
Moorkamp 46  
D-3000 Hannover 1  
GERMANY  
+49 (511) 3503081  
e-mail: sysop@oln.zer 

FredsNaetet/PeaceNet Sweden  
Timmermansgraen 4  
S-116 27 Stockholm SWEDEN  
+46 (8) 720 0001  
e-mail: pns!support 

GlasNet*  
International Foundation  
Ulitsa Vesnina  
Moscow 121002 USSR  
+7 (095) 241-8243  
fax: +7 (095) 230-2608  
e-mail:  glas!support 

GreenNet  
25 Downham Road  
London N1 5AA GREAT BRITAIN  
+44 (71) 923 2624  
fax: +44 (71) 254 1102  
e-mail: gn!support 

IGC Networks  
PeaceNet/EcoNet  
18 De Boom Street  
San Francisco, CA  94107  
+1 (415) 442-0220  
fax: +1 (415) 546-1976  
e-mail: support 

Nicarao  
CRIES  
Iglesia Carmen  
1 cuadra al lago  
Apartado 3516  
Managua, NICARAGUA 
+505 (2) 26 2 28 or 25 1 27  
fax: +505 (2) 26 1 80  
e-mail: ni!ayuda 

Pegasus Networks/EarthNet  
PO Box 424  
Byron Bay  
2481 New South Wales, AUSTRALIA 
+61 (66) 8 56789  
fax: +61  (66) 8 56926  
e-mail:  peg!support 

Web  
401 Richmond Street West  
Suite 104  
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8  
+1 (416) 596 0212  
fax: +1 (416) 974 9189  
e-mail:  web!spider 

*APC Membership Pending 

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Appendix: Interpreting an IGC "header"

Example:
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Topic 6 ISAAC ASIMOV: IS ANYONE LISTENING?
peb     peb.population  12:35 pm  Jan  4, 1991
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The article ("topic") has the subject "ISAAC ASIMOV: IS ANYONE
LISTENING?" and was posted to the newsgroup ("conference")
"peb.population" by someone at the "peb" account on PeaceNet.

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