[Netreach-L] Staying connected

Sat May 9 09:18:36 BST 2009

Hello Sabine,

Good to hear from you!

I'll follow-up from what I've been up to: still running Global Information Highway Ltd, sub-contracting for BT (installation of corporate intranets), but also sending refurbished CISCO telecom equipment to Africa.
Very involved with ISOC & ICANN, and all aspects of Internet Governance. My main goal with these organisations at the moment is to push for IPv6 adoption in order to get the Internet ready to evolve into a Next Generation Network (NGN). The threats, if it does not evolve, are for the Internet to be replaced by a network where governments have all governance control (ITU / UN model), and/or Telecom Corporations have all control (a return to the PSTN billing methods with ultimate Telco monopolies).
That's about all for me.

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http://salsa.gih.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/netreach-l

For privacy reasons, this is available only for subscribers of the list.

Let's hear from others, please!

Kind regards,

Olivier
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sabine Kurjo McNeill 
  To: netreach-l at gih.co.uk 
  Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 8:03 AM
  Subject: [Netreach-L] Staying connected

  Dear NetReachers

  First of all, I'd love to know who is still on this list and how many we are. It's really good of Olivier to keep up with the technology, and I'm glad to learn about MailMan. The only lists I use are from the two online petitions that I've published: Stop the Cash Crumble to Equalize the Credit Crunch and Financial Fairness for Voters and Taxpayers, please!.

  Secondly, I want to point out how much the British Computer Society provides now what we used to have in Room 97 in County Hall: a great meeting place in Central London. Advantage: free coffee machine, open meeting space with 3 internet computers and 5 spaces where you plug your laptop in, besides lots of meetings of Specialist Groups on all sorts of computer related topics. Difficult to find the right meeting, since that co-ordination is still in the making, but people are trying: volunteers and staff alike. I have only introduced people individually so far, because I like to go there for small meetings. Associate membership has risen from £20 to £35 a year. 

  The only big meeting I organised recently was "Challenging the Recession" at the House of Commons in the Grand Committee Room in the morning and the Gladstone Room 14 in the afternoon. A kind of summary of where we stand re the origins of the crisis and its effects. 

  Otherwise I keep trying to get either 'free developers' or investors to fund programming for my 3D Metrics concepts and software methods. The next big step consists of a team of 4 developers in Berlin who will use the multimedia centre in my mum's village in the former DDR where I've been coming for years now. They will make my approach to digital image analysis accessible via the web. The German blog I started two years ago has been visited more than 4,600 times! I love using Wordpress for blogging and have even advanced from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org. 

  Any chance of hearing from you what you are and have been up to? 

  Yours most connectedly,

  Sabine

  3D Metrics, London [portal leading to site, blog and archive with > 58,000 visitors]

  Expanding Dr. Yunus' Sphere of Influence, blog since Feb. 08 with > 17,000 hits

  Forum for Stable Currencies, Web and Westminster

  Currently:

  Buschower Dorfstr. 16

  14715 Märkisch Luch

  T: 0049 33876 90166

  M: 0044 7968 039 141

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