[asia-apec 11] from the e-conference facilitator

[daga]

Dear Friend(s),

hopefully we can leave the initial technical problems behind us, such that a
write-up on urban poor demolitions got posted before the series of welcome
messages that had to be resent (then got distributed in a different order).
Let us now engage in this whole "business" of electronic conferencing on
asia-apec. 

Again, my apologies if you were caught by surprise by getting on this
mailing list you are hearing of for the first time, rather than the
roundabout of notifying you individually, sending a message to subscribe to
the facilitator, then getting you on the list. 

A word about the sponsors. Interdoc AsPac is a (loose) network of e-mail
system network providers and information providers. DAGA stands for
Documentation for Action Groups in Asia, and is a regional church-related
NGO based in Hong Kong. JCA is Japan Computer Access which provides
connectivity for NGOs in Japan (many thanks to JCA for hosting this
conference!). At an "NGO Documentation and E-Mail Networks Workshop"
co-sponsored by Interdoc/DAGA and held in Bangkok late last year, one of the
resolutions was to come up with an e-(lectronic) conference on Apec. This we
recently got to discuss with the Philippine Hosting Committee of the Manila
People's Forum on Apec (MPFA). This is it!

It is suggested that network providers who are on this list, or participants
who have access to related e-mail conferences make <asia-apec> available;
forwarding to this list responses and the like. Details can be worked out
with this e-conference sponsors. We will also be arranging to mirror other
mailing lists and web pages, on a <jca/apec> home page.

The <asia-apec> electronic conference is not only for posting
statements/papers/ news items and the like, but more so for promoting a
healthy discussion, and when need be debate, on the range of issues having
to do with Apec. 

When writing to the ML for the first time, kindly briefly introduce
yourself, organization, etc. 

For starters, barring inactive e-mail accounts and wrong addresses, there
are some 100 individuals and/or organizations on the mailing list!

To reiterate especially for those with direct Internet access-- when using
the reply mode, kindly delete the original message you are responding to, as
this will mean unnecessary connect time charges for those from southern
countries :-)

So let's get things going....

Towards an alternative peoples' economic cooperation,

Mario Mapanao

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