Global Communications
Internet Services
REUNA: How an Academic Network can be Self-Funded
“REUNA is … a consortia of 19 public and semi-private universities and Chile’s National Sciences Council (CONICYT) that operates and manages Chile’s main access to the Internet.”... Read More
Development of WWW Services in Mexico, Toward a National Information Infrastructure
“1994 was a year of fast growth in the number of nodes of the Mexican Internet. Its popularity and demand have increased dramatically since the appearance of the World Wide Web (W3) browser ‘Mosaic’.”... Read More
Networking In Latin America and the Caribbean and the OAS/RedHUCyT Project
“RedHUCyT’s main objective is to connect the member countries to Internet, by integrating an electronic network for the exchange of specialized information among different academic and scientific institutions …”... Read More
Developments In WWW Technology
“HTML+ is a set of modular extensions to the hypertext markup language (HTML), which is in widespread use in the World Wide Web. The use of SGML to specify HTML+ allows authors to create documents …”... Read More
Chilean Network For Primary Schools
“The Chilean government began in 1993 the installation of an educational network that will gradually connect more than 100 primary schools and 10 education-related institutions within 4 years — Project Enlaces –.”... Read More
The World-Wide Web Initiative
“The World-Wide Web (W3) is a way of viewing all the online information available on the Internet as a seamless, browsable continuum. Using hypertext jumps and searches, the user navigates through an information world …”... Read More
Empowering Low-Bandwidth Users
“To empower people who are not computer professionals, systems must be conceptually simple … Unfortunately, non-professional users are likely to have low-bandwidth connectivity, particularly in less-industrialized nations …”... Read More
The Chilean Internet Connection or I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
“Chile has had two international 56Kbps links to the Internet since January 1992. This online connection to the world is having a great impact on academic research, extending state-of-the-art communication technology to our country.”... Read More
Non-Commercial Networking in Brazil
“The networking situation in Brazil at the end of 1991 was eminently cooperative in nature, with each connected institution paying its own telecommunications costs to link either to Rio de Janeiro or to Sao Paulo.”... Read More
Current Status of the OAS/RedHUCyT Networking Projects
“RedHUCyT has become a leading project in Latin America and the Caribbean to help integrate a network in the region. Several meetings and workshops have been co-organized and co-sponsored.”... Read More