<title>Hunger Conf</title>
<h1> The Internet as Tool for Addressing Global Problems </h1>
<p>
<h2>The World can be seen as a complex <a href="Hunger-ES.ps">
network </a> of globally interwoven systems.
<dd> The first diagram is based on the UN program on Human Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change.
<p>
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<DT><h1>Computer Networks
<p>
<DD><h2>Several different computer networks have been developed which are now in
the process of becoming globally interlinked through the<a href=" version_7-10.map.color.ps"> Internet</a>.
<p>
<DT><h1>Growing Connectivity
<p>
<DD><h2>The rapid growth of this network can be seen in the comparison between the two maps (Jan 1993 vs Feb 1994), and in the extrapolation to
the year <a href= "d-2001.ps">
2001</a> when basically everybody everybody could be connected through the Internet and a Global Brain could emerge. </h2>
<p>
<DT><h1>Acces Tools to the Internet
<DD><h2>Many different ways exist to access and use the Internet as a
<a href="InfoSys94-4.ps">
Global Information System</a> </h2>
<p>
<DD><h2>Through the World Wide Web and especially with the Mosaic interface, we
can get access to many Information servers
<a href="http://wings.buffalo.edu/world">
Information servers</a> around the world. We can zoom-in to any of these areas
to obtain more details, and we can do that as an exercise after the demo. </h2>
<p>
<DT><h1> Online Examples
<DD><h2> For example we can get fast access to the
<a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ResFacilities/DemographyPage.html ">
DEMOGRAPHY &POPULATION; STUDIES SERVER </a> of the AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
<p>
<DT><h1> International Organizations
<p>
<DD><h2>From there we have a link for example to the Gopher server of the United
Nations and their
<a href="gopher://gopher.undp.org/00/ungophers/popin"> POPULATION INFORMATION NETWORK
(POPIN)</a> </h2>
<p>
<DD><h2> Most major international organizations are on the Internet today like the
<a href="http://www.who.ch/">World Health Organization</a> (This server is in Switzerland).</h2>
<p>
<DT><h1> Internet Starting Point
<DD><h2> At this point it probably would be best to start the exploration of the
Internet, one good starting point is
<a href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/MetaIndex.html">
here</a>.
<p>
<DT><h1> Local HungerWeb Server
<p>
<DD><h2> But you can also start from a
<a href="http://www-hunger.students.brown.edu/oxfam">
local access point </a> that is directly relevant to the topic of this conference.
<p>
We can also talk about those issues by e-mail...or listen to the
<a href="BirdsZimbabwe.ATC.snd">
birds of Zimbabwe</a>...
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<address><A HREF="http://jaguar.ccsr.uiuc.edu/People/gmk/gmk-b.html"> Gottfried
Mayer-Kress</A>
<p>
(gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (NeXT-Mail welcome))</address>