PROJECTS
Kyiv FreeNet
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>> Can you give me more information about the Kyiv FreeNet?
>> What is the Kyiv FreeNet?
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>Sure, we a re a comminity-oriented free-access point tot he
>Internet run on a non-commercial basis and supported by the
>United Nations Internet Project... The Kyiv FreeNet is based onthe
>same principles that govern the growing community of FreeNets
>world-wide...I am a former resident of Ottawa, where the one of
>the first of such Freenets came into existence...
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>> Is there a possibility to get from the Kyiv FreeNet to the Internet
>and vice versa?
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>We are a full Internet site... our on-line entry is through a html
>shell called "Chebucto" developed in canada as an interface for
>FreeNets of the future...
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>> I suppose that in Kyiv and Ukraine only a few people have a
>computer, modem and telephone.
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>Actaully this number is ever growing...
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>> For who is the Kyiv FreeNet set up? For individuals, firms, non-
>profit organizations?
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>Non-governmental organizations, research institutions,
>educational establishments, government and interested
>individuals.... our only limitation is our Aceptable Usage
>Policy...which strictly stipulates non-commerical exploitation..
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>> Has the Kyiv FreeNet an ideology? (Like the foundation where I
>have a account: xs4all. Xs4all wants to give access to the internet
>for all people, not only universities, governments etc.)
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>Exactly... yes, our ideology is to bring the internet to the
>massess...
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>> I understood the United Nations finances the Kyiv FreeNet, why
>do they finance this?
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>'cause we the UN is hip on the edge of cyber-space.. :-)) and our
>little bright idea works...
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>> Who are the people who help to set up the Kyiv FreeNet, are they
>voluntaries?
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>A real mixture..there is a core staff (the United Nations Internet
>Project) which staff our node and NOCC on a constant basis, but we
>also have numberous "cyber-volunteers" in both Kiev and aborad
>who have helped us develope bits and pieces of the system...
>So far not, but this is a fuction of very narrow IP access... and lack
>of suitbly trained/equiped people..
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>> In Amsterdam there is a freenet, De Digitale Stad (The Digital
>City). I heard they want to invite next year other freenets for a
>congress in Amsterdam. Maybe interesting for you??
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>Yes, very much so...if you have acontact I would love to get in
>touch with them...
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>> Thanks in advance for answering my questions,
>> Grietje Keller
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>Thank you very much! and hope top see you in Kiev!!!!
>
>Rafal
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># Rafal Aleksandr Rohozinski #
># Co-ordinator, #
># United Nations Internet Project #
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># rafal@un.kiev.ua #
># rar20@cus.cam.ac.uk INTERNET PROJECT #
># rrohozin@superior.carleton.ca "Cybercasting live from Kyiv"
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