From hungary-online-owner Fri May 12 14:10:51 1995 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id OAA12923 for hungary-online-out31415; Fri, 12 May 1995 14:10:51 -0700 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id OAA12914; Fri, 12 May 1995 14:10:41 -0700 Received: from bruner@ind.eunet.hu () via =-=-=-=-=-= for hungary-online@hungary.yak.net (12912) Received: from ind.eunet.hu (root@ind.eunet.hu [192.84.225.42]) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA12909 for ; Fri, 12 May 1995 14:10:24 -0700 Received: from [192.84.226.92] (bruner.dial.eunet.hu) by ind.eunet.hu with SMTP id AA14499 (5.67a8/SZTAKI-4.01 for ); Fri, 12 May 1995 23:09:39 +0200 X-Sender: pop029@ind.eunet.hu (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 23:05:58 +0100 To: hungary-online@hungary.yak.net From: bruner@ind.eunet.hu (Rick Bruner) Subject: (HOL) E-Europe List X-Charset: US X-Char-Esc: 0 Sender: owner-Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Hello HOLers, Gotten kind of quite out there, eh what? Is everybody too busy relieving spring fever to post, or what? Anyway, I take the opportunity to mention that Cameron recently turned me on to a mailing list I bet others HOLers might be interested in, the Eastern Europe Business Network. While it's a "business network," it's broader than that, with lots of interesting tips for CEE events and online resoucres. It generates from 3 to 10 messages a day. Most I delete after a glance, but some good signal does come through. (Examples below.) To sign up, send a message, "subscribe E-EUROPE" (minus quotes) to . Two things that caught my eye today were these: >Civic Education Project is proud to announce that we have now have an >online version of our newsletter on the web. The newsletter can be >accessed from our homepage below or via its direct URL which is: > >http://minerva.cis.yale.edu/~cep/newsletter/index.html > >Your feedback and suggestions are welcome. > >Chris Owen ...and >***************************************************************** > U.S. Information Agency Now Online >***************************************************************** >The United States Information Agency has just put its own WWW and >gopher sites online to help explain and advocate U.S. policies in >terms that are credible and meaningful in foreign cultures, and >to bring the benefits of international engagement to American >citizens and institutions by helping them build strong long-term >relationships with their counterparts overseas. > >Resources include information about the Fulbright Scholar pro- >grams, student exchanges, student advising, international broad- >casting, press announcements, and a foreign media reaction sec- >tion. American and overseas scholars seeking short and long-term >grants will find it especially useful for learning about opportu- >nities for travel abroad and travel to the U.S. > >The addresses: Web Address: http://www.usia.gov > Gopher Address: gopher.usia.gov > >***************************************************************** I browsed both (just got my WWW connection up and running -- I've seen God! (he has his own Web-page, of course)). The first was pretty interesting, the second was rather lame. What do you expect from the US gov't? They're entire write-up on activities in Eastern Europe (this coming from the US "information agency") was: > EASTERN EUROPEAN INITIATIVES > USIA participates in the Support for Eastern European Democracies (SEED) > program, a initiative designed to help Central and Eastern European > countries develop democratic and free market institutions. Since FY'90, > the agency has used over $65,000,000 in SEED monies to fund training > programs in a broad range of fields including English teaching, > management principles, media, education reform, book donations and > library training, and the rule of law. SEED funding also supports an > in-country grant program at each Embassy, coordinated by the Ambassador, > to respond to immediate opportunities to enhance and support democratic > initiatives by local NGOs, universities, human rights organizations, > media organizations, and the like. Hmm. Kind of brief. The mentality was summed up by this at the bottom of the home page: > We welcome comments and requests for additional information > > You can write us at: > > The United States Information Agency > Office of Public Liaison > 301 4th Street, S.W. > Room 602 > Washington, D.C. 20547 Notice anything missing? Like...an email address? My tax dollars at work. 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