I think some villages have already made their presence felt in yahoo
groups like Aldona : http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/aldona-net
Does anyone have a list of Goan villages on cyberspace and their urls?
Joseph de Souza
On 12-11-2013 17:51, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك
نورونيا wrote:
A good issue indeed....
The cheapest, rough-and-read 'website' anyone can create is a blog. Sites
like wordpress.com offer a huge 3GB of free space. For free. So costs
should not be an excuse anymore.
The NIC (National Informatics Centre, GoI) has its offices at Porvorim, and
they're only too ready to help in any effort at creating connectivity. When
we, as journos, approached them over a decade ago, they were more than
happy at offering us Net tutorials and the like. Copied to Archana
Nagvenkar, a helpful engineer at NIC.
The problem is not technology or costs. The issue is that institutions of
power are unlikely to share the information and knowledge they're sitting
on, on which their power is based, and which could lead them to being
questioned.
In my view, we should not wait for the panchayats to do things. Every
village and city ward should set up their own presence in cyberspace,
either on a blog, electronic mailing-list or even a Facebook page.
Since we're not dealing with state secrecy here, the main concern should be
spreading the word. FN
On 12 November 2013 10:28, augusto pinto <[email protected]> wrote:
Ashley Delaney brought this to my attention: "the Govt of India has banned
the use of FREE email accounts, and therefore they can use only accounts
provided to them by NIC. FYI - however the NIC till date has not provided
any local panchayats with email address. This is strange given that with
the goa broadband network is in place and each panachyat being linked via
high speed to the Internet, why this has not yet taken place!"
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Goa, India
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