From hungary-online-owner Sat Jun 10 06:21:53 1995 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id GAA04606 for hungary-online-announce-out31415; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 06:21:53 -0700 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id GAA04597; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 06:21:42 -0700 Received: from bodoky@hubi.abc.hu () via =-=-=-=-=-= for hungary-online-announce@hungary.yak.net (4595) Received: from AGBICE.ABC.HU (agbice.abc.hu [192.146.134.1]) (fnord) by nando (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA04592 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 06:21:23 -0700 Received: from hubi.abc.hu by AGBICE.ABC.HU (MX V3.1) with SMTP; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 14:15:58 EDT Received: by hubi.abc.hu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA10478; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 15:27:27 --100 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 15:26:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tamas Bodoky Subject: (HOL-A) Public Access in Hungary To: Hungary-Online-Announce@hungary.yak.net Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 5901 Sender: owner-Hungary-Online-announce@hungary.yak.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Dear HOLers, please read this text, visit our Web Site and support our initiatives ! tHaNx, Tamas ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLIC ACCESS IN HUNGARY The aim of our non-profit organisation is to provide Internet access in Hungary. Access to the Information Superhighway in our country is now only available via commercial or academic spheres. The commercial Internet providers are expensive, and therefore not affordable for the general public. This problem also applies to non-profit organisations like NGOs, social movements, minority groups and subcultures, whilst freshly graduated university students, independent art groups and FidoNet (Bulletin Board System) folks are excluded by high costs as well. The historical significance of the new Internet possibilities need not to be merely academic or commercial. Environmental, human rights, peace and minority movements must also benefit from this very effective tool. News coming through such networks can often be the only reliable source of information from supressed countries, or those areas, which are out of the picture of the traditional mass media. Digital telecommunication is fast, cheap, uncontrollable and politically independent. Our organisation is an answer to the emerging social need for a low-cost, reliable and non-profit Internet and on-line data provider. We are planning a complex of services, the financial support needed will be achieved by appealing to foundations, state funds, companies and private supporters. We would like to support the self organizing efforts of local communities, by means of providing effective communication channels and information resources. Public Access means to set up a dial-up server, which enables the user to connect to the global information superhighway. However, connection itself is not enough : we would like to fill our server with on-line data from NGOs, to enable them to show their existing databases, or those that are to be developed. To overcome technical difficulties we are planning to manufacture low cost, network oriented machines and supply used hardware and parts as well. Our machines will come with public domain software ready to run. We will set up a Help!Desk to help users solve their technical problems 24 hours a day. Tasks will include installation, maintenance, system repairs and help for users to get started. We will popularize cyberculture with the publication of books, manuals, periodicals, leaflets and fanzines dedicated to the know-how of the Internet. A CyberCafe will be established, it will be a creative space with public terminals and serve as a meeting and focal point for the growing subculture of hungarian hackers, Internet and BBS users. Our organisation is under heavy construction. Some 20 NGOs support our initiatives and approximately 200 future users have registered in the past four weeks. And the registration process continues... _________________________________________________________________ Our Projects (under heavy construction) : Server Project (Tamas Szalay - tszalay@crassus.power.elte.hu and Tamas Bodoky - bodoky@hubi.abc.hu) Art Project (Laszlo Tolgyes - tolgyes@sol.cc.u-szeged.hu and Janos Sugar - intermed@ind.eunet.hu) Help!Desk Project (Chris Swart - chris@desk.nl) Digital Island Project (Adam Kepecs- zeno@cs.elte.hu) CyberCafe Project (Peter Gergaly - gergaly@icon.hu, Zoltan Seidl - seidl@icon.hu and Mark Varadi - varadi@icon.hu) University Project (Attila Nagy - nattila@huninet.hu) Digital City Project (Daniel Csanady) _________________________________________________________________ Contact Persons : Tamas Bodoky - bodoky@hubi.abc.hu tel.: +36-1-251-1653 Chris Swart - chris@desk.nl tel.: +36-1-115-5151 Tamas Szalay - tszalay@crassus.power.elte.hu tel.: +36-1-266-6426 x 3084 Laszlo Tolgyes - tolgyes@sol.cc.u-szeged.hu tel.: +36-1-112-4949 _________________________________________________________________ Mailing Adress : Chris Swart, Hungary, Budapest 1023 Torok u. 14. _________________________________________________________________ World Wide Web Homepage : http://www.abc.hu/cybercult/xs4all/xs4all.html _________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Owner of the list NARANCS-L Tamas Bodoky jr., MSc Editor of GepNarancs http://www.abc.hu/cybercult/ http://www.abc.hu/cybercult/bodoky.html e-mail: bodoky@hubi.abc.hu voice: +36-28330600 / 202 Agricultural Biotechnology Center Institute of Molecular Genetics DON'T PANIC ! 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