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   [Date]: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:16:23 -0400
   [From]: Christy Sheffield Sanford <christys@gnv.fdt.net>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@herz.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: The Shrinking Web and What to Do About it


Hi, I'm new here, but I thought you'd like to see what a Jamaican in
England is doing about it. Sounds like a good idea and maybe a model
for other projects.

The Container Project.  Maybe someone has already brought it up.  I've
copied the info from a press release:

ABOUT THE CONTAINER

The Container - a means of technological repatriation

The Container - a unit of transportation, distributing large quantities
of collective and individual gross Domestic Product. A dogma in the
industrial revolution.

The Container is a mobile media lab which can provide access to
computers and the internet for those who are least able to gain access
through traditional means.

Jamaican born Mervin Jarman has purchased and equipped a container with
computers and accessories and is shipping it to Jamaica next week where
it will be used as a centre for drop-in training, education, advice and
DIY-media. Later it will island-hop across the Caribbean.

Over the summer the Container was used in London and Bristol to host
informal workshops for people with Caribbean connections wanting to
learn more ways in which they can take advantage of digital media. When
the Container reaches the Caribbean, the people from the UK communities
that have already been involved in the project will be able start up
dialogues on-line with friends and family overseas.

The Container was in Bristol as part of the DA2, Digital Arts
Development Agency, arts programme, in July, during and after the St
Pauls carnival, providing hands-on internet workshops and
demonstrations. In 2000 when the Container has been landed in Jamaica,
DA2 will be organising links between artists working with the two
international communities.

If you would like to help contribute computer resources to the Container
project or for more information about it please contact
mervin@mongrel.org.uk.

For information on the Container in Bristol and the DA2 programme
contact
rachel@da2.org.uk.

You can follow the progress of the container at the DA2 website
http://www.da2.org.uk

The container in Bristol is supported by the Arts Council of England,
JP, Computer Access, Highprosys Computers, Hewlett Packard,  RUZ
productions, Mongrel and IANI media.

The Container Project Web Site is @
http://www.container.access-it.org.uk

Best, Christy
Christy Sheffield Sanford
Web-specific Artist-writer
http://gnv.fdt.net/~christys/index.html