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   [Date]: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:40:33 +1000
   [From]: "Kim Machan" <kma@b130.aone.net.au>
     [To]: "Cultural Exchange via Internet" <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Access

Hello List!
Access has been a large issue, please correct me if you think this assumption is off beam. But I would like to draw an analogy of the internet in the future through Asia with that of television.
The access and availabilty of television through out Asia is very extensive and I think there is no reason to think that the internet and access to computers will not grow in the same way.

Do you think this is an inevitable progression?
I don't have statistics as to the percentage of households with television
in different countires but in my travels have witnessed generous lashings of
"the box" in the most unlikely places.

kim

Kim Machan
MAAP99
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific
www.maap.org.au
MAAP is a not for profit organisation that promotes
excellence in art and technology in the Asia Pacific regions.

www.machan-art.com


However, I
> deplore the fact that most Aboriginal and many Asian people cannot afford
> access to the net and so it really is not a vehicle open to all artists in
> this country. Both language and financial barriers persist....as they do
> elsewhere.
> Dianne.