AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Update

[Ronald E Laporte <ghnetu+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Update
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

Dear Friends,

During the past few weeks we have had a large number of lectures which 
have been received by us, the largest number that we have ever received 
in a month. It is wonderful to see us working together. Also, the speed 
to which we are adding new academic members world-wide is amazing, with 
over 40 a month and greater than 850 members in our lecture library 
community. There are a few things we wanted to discuss with you.

Publications:
We strongly encourage you to publish papers concerning the Supercourse. 
We are pleased to help you write these papers. We are also pleased that 
you help us with our papers as well.

As part of this we just began work on two publications and would like 
to see if others would help write these papers. The policy of our cen-
ter is that any paper coming from the total group would have as authors 
"The Global Health Network Research Group", with the URL to the authors 
on the supercourse. As we are working together, we will publish to-
gether. The two papers that are underdevelopment are:

Lecture Shareware:
Here we want to draw the parallels of what we are doing to that of Li-
nux, which is the shareware operating system. In the Feb. 21, 1999 New 
York Times there is an excellent overview of Linux. In addition, there 
is a fascinating paper on the Web called 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' 
by Eric S. Raymond present the shareware model used in software:
http://www.redhat.com/redhat/cathedral-bazaar/

which parallels what we are doing with the library of lectures. We 
would appreciate if you could contribute your thoughts about this.

Transnational Lecture Libraries:
In this paper we want to draw the parallels between globalisation, com-
munication and education. The Supercourse is not distance education, 
the model is completely different. We describe the Supercourse in the 
context of Globalisation perhaps of agriculture. The problem is we know 
little about globalisation! We would encourage your help.

Please let us know if you would like to help us to write these papers. 
We will draft them with a small group, and then distribute these to all 
of our community. We would very much like it if others would like to 
write publications for the total group.

Best regards from Sunny Pittsburgh.

Ron, Akira, Deb, Benjamin, Tom 
mailto:ghnetu+@pitt.edu


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