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Global Scoutnet: A World Wide Network for Scouts and Guides
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In the '80es, the only telecomms technology available to anyone who owned a modem, outside the academic world, was that of Bulletin Board Systems; in short, BBS. A BBS is an amateur telecommunication system, operated by an hobbyst who leaves his PC switched on 24 hours a day, linked to a phone line used only by his modem. Whoever calls can use its file areas to download or upload software, documents or pictures, and can also take part in the message areas, to read and write. Usually, there is no need to pay for a subscription, no contract is signed, sometimes the operator might ask for a small fee to cover his expenses. Moreover, there is usually a strong community. In the second half of the '80es, BBS start to link into "networks"; a group of BBS which share their message areas, allowing people in different towns (or countries!) to engage in discussions in the same message area, devoted to a specific topic. At the start of the '90es, there were many such networks aimed at scouting. A network called "Scoutnet" was born in Italy, another network by the same name was born between Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands, while in North America they had "Stay in Scouting Network", and so on. WOSM (the European region in particular) started to guess the inherent possibilites of the medium, and for this reason in December 1994 it organized a seminar in Courriere, Belgium, titled "Building the Global Village - new strategies for multi-cultural learning". I took part in the seminar (on behalf of AGESCI and of Scoutnet, Italy), and I had the chance to meet many important figures of "electronic" scouting.
I met Danny Schwendener, who had managed to open the first ever newsgroup about scouting (rec.scouting) and maintained the related FAQs. I met Lars Olleschik, who operates the scouting-europe mailing list. I also met Daniel Saxer (from Switzerland), and other people from the "other" Scoutnet (well, we weren't really original in our choice of names...). The seminar was directed by Ray Saunders, Communications Executive of the Euroean Region of WOSM. Key people from WOSM, such as Dominique Benard (Director of European Region of WOSM) and Mark Clayton (WOSM Director for Public Relations and Communication) took part, too.
If you want to know more about that seminar, request the file GLOBVILL.ZIP (23K) from any italian BBS belonging to Scoutnet; you can also find it at ftp.scoutnet.org/Scoutnet/Scoutnet_Internazionale/ part of the file is in italian (my report, for instance), but most of it is in english.
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