[1377] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
"Net.Initiative.in.Development.Economics"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (CMARINHO@ccvax.unicamp.br)
Fri Oct 2 10:41:02 1992
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:31:18 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
From: CMARINHO@ccvax.unicamp.br
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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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
