Syndicate: Re: Message Board / people finder services (fwd)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)]

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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 11:20:07 -0400
From: Andras Riedlmayer <riedlmay@FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
To: JUSTWATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject: Re: Request for comment: Message Board

Tom Keenan writes:
> For those involved in fieldwork in the Kosovo region, or in touch with
> people who are, here's an interesting proposal for an Internet-based
> people-finder project, sparked by the experience of separated families
> and displaced people ejected from Kosovo.

Tom - Please pass this on to the Syndicate list:

An Internet-based people-finder project is already up and running and
could be adapted to serve the same purposes for people displaced from
Kosovo.

        People Finder Service
        http://www.applicom.com/people/

was established in January 1996 by Dubravko Kakarigi of Applied Computer
Solutions and a group of volunteers.  The following info. is from the
People Finder Service home page:
________________________________

This service is provided by Applied Computing Solutions, Inc in hope that
it will primarily facilitate the difficult task of finding lost relatives,
friends, family or other displaced persons from the war torn countries of
former Yugoslavia. Anyone may enter information into the database about
a displaced person they hope to find or are helping to find. In addition,
refugees from the former Yugoslavia may also register themselves, if they
wish to let others know where they are located now and how they can be
contacted. Further details are provided in the "enter new information"
section.

All information entered will be maintained in the database for a period
of one year from the last update. At that time it will be automatically
removed.

Here you can browse the database, enter new information, update, or delete
information previously entered (you will need to use the password to
perform these last two tasks).

Also, check the list of e-mail addresses at "Croatia and Bosnia and
Herzegovina Information Pages Europe" <link> and

International Committee of the Red Cross "Unaccounted for persons in B-H"
pages <link>.

Thank you for visiting, send us e-mail <dubravko@applicom.com> if you have
any questions or comments, and please tell others about it.


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From: Frank Tiggelaar <webmaster@DOMOVINA.NET>

Another initiative is the DN service which will bring to the WWW the
lists of names, phone numbers and contact info which are broadcast by
Albanian TV Shqiptar every day. Digitizing just the scrolling line of
text from the TV picture, DN produces 32 by 350 pixel frames which are
legible in the streaming 20 Kbps RealVideo format. This format means
that the stream can be watched using a 28K8 modem + P75 or better PC.
Text searches on these data are impossible of course, but we think this
is a fast way to distribute RTSh's data. From tomorrow the DN team will
try to digitize the complete daily 2h program for a week - and then
evaluate the use that is made of the service.

A test page is up for review at http://www.domovina.net/albtest.html
comments welcome at <webmaster@domovina.net>


Denis/Frank/Mirenko
Domovina Net

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May 4th, 1999

Een volk dat voor tirannen zwicht
zal meer dan lijf en goed verliezen
Dan dooft het licht...

H.M. van Randwijck
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