Some of my UK, Jewish family, cousins of mine, developed a website that was a second resurrection of a family magazine originally started in the late '50's. Ther were only ever four issues of the magazine, two in the '50's, and two (it's first resurrection, by a new generation of the family) in the 'early 80's. In the late '90's, some members of the family put the magazine onto the Internet, where it is updated about every six months with news, archive material, etc. During this time, some distant cousins from Poland/Lithuania made contact via the website to enquire if we were related. It turns out they are the sole surviving members of a branch of the family that was entirely wiped out in the holocaust, we had thought Would you be interested in pursuing this further? If so, contact me off-list. Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Daly" <dalyj@erols.com> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] trans-national diaspora networks
You could look at the Three Pomegranate Network (Armenia). I think there is an evaluation done by Joanne Capper of an education project which they run to be found on the infoDev web site. As I recall they have funding from the Narod Foundation.
There was a "Knowledge Assessment" done for El Salvador with World Bank sponsorship, which looked at the use of the Internet to support linkages with the Salvadoran expatriate community. Michel Menou was involved I think.
You might look at the Irish Emigrant and the Irish Research Scientists Association and IrishAbroad.com as examples of the use of the Internet by and for the Irish diaspora community.
There is shortly to be published a seminar on ICTs in Africa sponsored by the National Intelligence Council last October which has annecdotal information on the effect of the Internet communication of West Africans in their home country's elections.
I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to their (or others') work about how the Internet links trans-national diasporic communities where some folks have migrated from the home country and others haven't. I'm mostly interested in email, but also Internet phone, web boards, Usenet, et al. -- John Daly http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant/
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