REPORT #15 1998
RESEARCH TEAM HEADED BY BELIZEAN IS CREATING E-MAIL INTERNET ROBOTS
Produced by the Belize
Development Trust
In a quiet little village in northern Belize, Peter Singfield
instigates the work of 12 world wide computer scientists in creating a
new robot software that will revolutionize E-Mail access to the internet
for Belizeans and other third world nations, unable to afford internet
access by traditional methods.
Peter is on the Board of Advisors of the Belize Development Trust,
headquartered in Dangriga, Belize. Recently the Belize Development Trust
completed an overhaul of it's special niche, Belize Electronic Resource
and Development Library, instigated by Peter Singfield of Xaibe village;
to make the Belizean library internet resources, E-Mail accessible
friendly for Belizeans unable to afford internet access by ordinary
means. There is a whole section on this library catering to the needs of
internet usage by using only an E-Mail message system. You can even make
your own web page, solely by E-Mail from Belize, on the worldwide
internet.
Peter Singfield from Xaibe, Belize, using only E-Mail for internet
access, is currently leading a team of software programmers, of which two
young Germans in Europe are doing the experimental pilot project work, to
create a Webcrawler robot that can be downloaded and installed on your
computer hard drive. Any time you use E-Mail, and you had listed any
URL's on the internet that you desired. This webcrawler robot would find
them for you, bring them back to your hard drive and store them until you
had time to read the information off-line. One drawback so far
encountered, is that you would need internet WWW access. The difference
is in cost. Currently the cost is around $2400 a month, which represents
more than a year's income for most Belizeans. The new robot is expected
to cut on-line time from $2400 a month to $100 a month. Still a
considerable financial obstacle for most ordinary people.
The technical human resources and cutting edge development of
Belizeans, are meeting the challenges posed by an outdated colonial
governing system and the special politically created problems arising
therefrom.
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