INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS
Cooperation Through Telecommunications

PeaceNet * EcoNet * ConflictNet
18 De Boom Street
San Francisco, CA  94107
+1 (415) 442-0220 voice
+1 (415) 546-1794 fax
154205417 telex
[email protected] - email


What are IGC Networks?

The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) provides computer
networking tools for international communications and information
exchange.

The IGC Networks -- PeaceNet, EcoNet and ConflictNet -- comprise the
world's only computer communications system dedicated solely to
environmental preservation, peace, and human rights.  New technologies
are helping these worldwide communities cooperate more effectively and
efficiently.

IGC, located in San Francisco, California, is a division of the Tides
Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

By subscribing to any one of the IGC Networks, you have full access to
the resources of any of the other IGC Networks.  To help you decide
which of the IGC Networks might best reflect your interests and needs,
here is a brief description of each:

EcoNet serves individuals and organizations working for environmental
preservation and sustainability. Important issues covered include:
global warming, energy policy, rainforest preservation, legislative
activities, water quality, toxics and environmental education.

PeaceNet serves peace and social justice advocates around the world in
such areas as human rights, disarmament, and international relations.  A
number of alternative news services provide a range of information about
these and other topics from around the world.

ConflictNet serves groups and individuals working for social justice and
conflict resolution.  ConflictNet's resources include guidelines for
choosing a neutral third party, sample case development in conflict
resolution, estensive biblographies, legislative updates, educational
materials and newsletters from around the world.


How People are Using the IGC Networks

Electronic Mail

Send and receive private messages -- including Fax and Telex -- to and
from more than 8,000 international peace, environmental and conflict
resolution users on our affiliated networks or to millions of users on
other networks.  Electronic mail is quick, inexpensive, reliable and
easy to use.

Conferences

IGC's conferencing services offer easy-to-use tools in group
communication and event coordination.  Geographically dispersed people
can communicate inexpensively on any subject.  Whether you are
administering an organization or distributing an urgent action alert,
IGC conferences are an indispensable tool.  Private conferences can be
set up to facilitate internal group decision-making, task-sharing
processes, or sensitive communications.  Public conferences are great
for information sharing, newsletter distribution, legislative alerts and
news services.

Information Resources

IGC's several hundred public conferences also include events calendars,
newsletters, legislative alerts, funding sources, press releases, action
updates, breaking stories, calls for support, as well as ongoing
discussions on issues of global importance.  IGC is also an access point
for the USENET system of interuniversity bulletin boards.  IGC's
capabilities allow you to search lists of speakers, U.S. Congress and
world leaders, media, grant-making foundations or bibliographies.


International Programs & The Association for Progressive Communications

IGC regards international cooperation and partnership as essential in
addressing peace and environmental problems.  IGC maintains a major
program to develop low-cost access to computer networking from outside
the United States, especially from non-industrialized and Southern
hemisphere countries.  The result of this program has been the
Association of Progressive Communications (APC) which now includes low-
cost computer networks in eight countries.  IGC has played a major role
in starting the Alternex (Brazil), Nicarao (Nicaragua) and GlasNet
(Russia) non-profit computer networks, as well as in providing technical
support to all of the partner networks.

Current projects include developing computer networks for peace,
environmental and international development organizations in Bolivia,
Costa Rica, Ecuador, Uruguay and Kenya.  The focus of the work is to
empower local, indigenous organizations by transferring expertise and
capacity in computer networking.  Operation and management of a local
APC node becomes the full responsibility of the local organization.  All
APC partners are independent organizations, and retain full control over
their network.

IGC collaborates with the United Nations Development Programme in work
in Latin America.  The International Programme is supported entirely by
grants from major Foundations and individual donors. Contributors
include:  The Ford Foundation, General Service Foundation and the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Association for Progressive Communications Partner Networks


Australia:     Pegasus Networks
----------     PO Box 424
              Byron Bay 2481
              New South Wales
              Australia
              Tel: +61 (66) 8 56789
              Fax: +61 (66) 8 56962
              e-mail: [email protected]

Brazil:        Alternex
-------------  IBASE
              Rua Vicente de Souza 29
              22251 Rio de Janiero
              Brazil
              Tel: +55 (21) 286 0348
              Fax: +55 (21) 286 0541
              e-mail:  [email protected]

Canada:        Web
---------      Nirv Centre
              401 Richmond Street West
              Suite 104
              Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
              Canada
              Tel: +1 (416) 596 0212
              Fax: +1 (416) 974 9189
              e-mail:  [email protected]

England:       GreenNet
------------   23 Bevenden Street
              London N1 6BH
              England
              Tel: +44 (71) 608 3040
              Fax: +44 (71) 253 0801
              e-mail: [email protected]

Germany:       ComLink
------------   Moorkamp 46
              D-3000 Hannover 1
              Germany
              Tel: +49 (511) 3503081
              e-mail: [email protected]

Nicaragua:     Nicarao
------------   CRIES
              Iglesia Carmen
              1 cuadra al lago
              Apartado 3516
              Managua
              Nicaragua
              Tel: +505 (2) 26 2 28
              Tel: +505 (2) 25 1 27
              Fax: +505 (2) 26 1 80
              e-mail: [email protected]

Russia:        GlasNet
-------------  Ulitsa Yaroslavskaya 8
              Korpus 3 Room 111
              129164 Moscow
              Russia
              Tel: +7(095)217-6173
              Tel: +7(095)217-6182
              e-mail: [email protected]

Sweden:        NordNet
------------   Huvudskaersvaegen 13, nb
              S-121 54 Johanneshov
              Sweden
              Tel: +46-8-6000331
              Fax: +46-8-6000443
              e-mail: [email protected]

Uruguay:       Chasque
------------   Miguel del Corro 1461
              Montevideo
              Uruguay 11200
              Tel: +598 (2) 496 192
              Fax: +598 (2) 419 222
              e-mail: [email protected]

USA:           Institue for Global Communications
------------   18 de Boom Street
              San Francisco, CA 94107
              USA
              Tel: +1 (415) 442-0220
              Fax: +1 (415) 546-1794
              e-mail: [email protected]


Membership pending:

Ecuador:       EcuaNex
------------   Intercom
              Casilla 1703596
              Quito
              Ecuador
              Tel: +(593 2) 505 074
              e-mail: [email protected]

Italy:         Lega per L'Ambiente
------------   via Salaria 280
              I-00194 Roma
              Italy
              Tel: +39/6-844-2277
              e-mail: [email protected]


Join Our Global Community

Participate in a range of discussions and find information resources on
such topics, including:

Activist Resources
Africa
Air & Climate
Central & South  America
Community
Conflict Resolution
Development
Disarmament
East -- West
Economics
Education & Research
Energy
Environment
  -- Education
  -- General
  -- Legislation
Europe
Food & Agriculture
Foreign Policy
Forests
Friends of the Earth
General Interest
Global Action Network
Government Sources
Greens Movement
Health
Homeopathy
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
International
Labor
Media
Middle East
Military & Security
Nuclear Weapons & Testing
Pacific Rim
Peace Legislation
Peace/Social Justice
Philosphy & Religion
Politics -- General
Seas & Waters
Spanish-lanaguage
Technology
Toxics & Waste
United Nations
Wilderness & Wildlife
Women
Youth


Connect with People on Other Computer Networks

Through electronic 'gateways', you can exchange electronic mail with
users of any of the following international systems:

ABAnet
AppleLink
ArpaNet
AT&T Mail
BITNET
BIX
Red BolNet (Bolivia)
CARINET
CGNet
CIGNet
ComLink (Germany)
CompuServe
CONNECT
COSY
CSNET
DASNet
Dialcom
EasyLink
EIES
Envoy 100
FidoNet
Galaxy
GeoNet
GTE Mail
HandsNet
IMC
INET
Internet
Janet
MCI Mail
MetaNet
MicroLink
NASA Mail
NWI
Pandora Systems
PINET
Portal
Prairie
PsychNet
ScienceNet
SF/Moscow Teleport (USSR & USA)
TCN
Telecom Gold
TeleMail
TWICS
TYMNET/OnTyme
UNDP
UNDRO
UNINET
Unison
UUCP Mail Net
WELL

Communicate with people who don't have access to computer networks by
sending them a telex or fax directly from your IGC account!


IGC Rates

After a one-time $15 sign-up fee, the monthly subscription is $10, which
includes one free hour of off-peak time (after 6 p.m. and on weekends)
and phone support.  Domestic connect time is $5/hour for off-peak and
$10 for peak time (M-F 7 am to 6 pm).  Alaska and Hawaii users are
subject to slightly higher rates.  Internet connectivity is available
from many locations for $3 per hour.  International connect rates vary
with each country's public data network.  A growing number of countries
have direct SprintNet connections at $21 per hour.  Some gateways and
storage space are extra.

How Can I Join?  Fill out this coupon and send/fax it to us immediately!
Or sign up online by having your computer dial  (415) 322-0284 (N-8-1) -
- have your credit card ready!.  Type 'new' at the LOGIN prompt hit
<RETURN> at the PASSWORD prompt, then follow the step-by-step
instructions.

Select:   [  ] EcoNet     [  ] PeaceNet       [  ] ConflictNet

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Organization

Address

City, State, Zip

Telephone

Major Areas of Interest

Referred by

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Charge my subscription directly:

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Connecting to IGC Networks via the Internet

I.  About the Internet

IGC networks (e.g. PeaceNet, EcoNet and ConflictNet) are now
accessible via the Internet, making it cheaper and easier for many
academic users to login.  The Internet is the world's leading
inter-university network, and connects thousands of academic and
research institutions around the world.  There is no surcharge for
Internet access - you pay our normal direct dial rates of $3/hour,
24 hours a day!

If you don't know if your campus is connected to the Internet,
you'll have to find out.  If you don't have a friend who can tell
you, then it's best to contact the campus organization that
manages your campus computer networks.  Otherwise, you could
contact your computer science department or campus computer
system, and ask to speak to a computer network administrator or
computer system administrator.

If your campus is on the Internet but you don't have an account on
a computer that's connected to the Internet, then you'll have to
acquire one.  The best way to find out how to do this is to find a
friend who already has an account on a computer that's on the
Internet, and ask them how they got it.  If you don't know anyone
who has an account, then you could try contacting the head of your
department, or the computer science department or campus computer
system, and ask to get an account on a timesharing computer that's
connected to the Internet (or else ask to have your personal
computer connected to an "ethernet" that's connected to the campus
"backbone" network).

NOTE:  The Internet is to be used only for bona-fide educational
or research purposes, and it is up to an individual's sponsoring
institution to make sure that a user is using it for bona-fide
educational purposes.

II.  LOGGING IN TO THE IGC NETWORKS THROUGH THE INTERNET - TELNET

Once you have an Internet account, you'll have to learn how to log
in to it.  Once you can do this, then you're ready to log in to
your account on the IGC Networks.  To do this, run the command

       telnet igc.org

           -- or --

       telnet 192.82.108.1

from your Internet account.  If this doesn't work, contact a
technical expert at your campus to get assistance.  Note that if
your personal computer is connected directly to an ethernet and
you don't log in directly to a campus computer, then you might
need to run a command on your personal computer that's called
something different than 'telnet'.  Because there are dozens of
different ways that campus systems connect to the Internet, we
cannot anticipate all of them.

If you don't already have an account on IGC, and you would like to
signup for an account and pay for it with a credit card, then you
should type 'new' at the login: prompt, and type RETURN or ENTER
at the Password: prompt.  If you don't use credits cards, please
call us at 1-415-442-0220 between 9am and 5pm, Pacific Time to
arrange payment for a new account.

III.  File Transfers over the Internet - Using FTP with IGC

There are two different ways to upload files from your personal
computer to IGC, and download messages from IGC to your own
system.  If you're using your personal computer and a modem
program (such as ProComm or RedRyder) to login to another campus
computer, then you can do uploads and downloads exactly as
described in the IGC manual, i.e. using one of the "normal" file
transfer protocols such as ascii or kermit.  [Try to avoid using
xmodem, since it requires a pure 8-bit data path; in particular,
CTRL-S and CTRL-Q can *not* be used for flow control with
xmodem.]

If you're not using a modem program (e.g. you're running the
'telnet' command from your personal computer, or you're using a
dumb terminal that's directly connected to a campus computer),
then you probably won't be able to use one of the "normal"
protocols.  However, you can use your computer's FTP command
instead.

To use your university computer's FTP command in conjunction with
the IGC Networks, you need to inform the IGC computer that you'll
be doing this.

UPLOADING: At the prompt:

Hit <RETURN> to enter/edit a message, or 'u' to (u)pload a file:

be sure to select (u)pload.  At the next prompt:

Protocol: (a)scii-text (k)ermit (x)modem (y)modem (z)modem (f)tp:

be sure to select (f)tp.

You will then see:

Please use your ftp program to log in as 'anonymous',
and place your file in upload/<yourloginID>

Use your university computer's 'ftp' command to initiate a file
transfer.  When asked to login, be sure to login in to:

      igc.org, or cdp.igc.org, or 192.82.108.1

When you login with ftp as 'anonymous', use 'guest' or 'ident' as
a password.  This puts you into a place on our computer network
that allows temporary storage of uploaded files. Be sure to change
directory to 'upload' and then use the ftp command to transfer the
file from your computer to ours using your loginID as the
destination name of the file.

Once the transfer is completed, go back to the telnet command and
hit <RETURN> or <ENTER>. This completes the ftp upload process.
This also deletes your file from the 'anonymous' upload
subdirectory on the IGC computer.

You will be asked if you want to edit the uploaded file.  If you
say (y)es, then use the online editor's (v)iew command, you will
see the contents of your file.  Hitting <RETURN> twice from the
Edit: prompt will save and send your changes.

If you are using a multi-user computer on your campus, then you
may have "job control", a feature that allows you to switch back
and forth between programs.  If you need to leave telnet (or ftp)
and go into ftp (or telnet), type '~ CTRL-Z' or 'CTRL-] CTRL-Z' to
temporarily "suspend" telnet (or ftp), then type e.g. 'fg %ftp or
'fg %n' (where the 'jobs' command will tell you which 'n' is
needed for the ftp command) to go into ftp.  If you don't have job
control, you may be able to type '~ z' or 'CTRL-Z z' (or '!' or
'shell' instead of 'z') in telnet to get a subshell, so that you
can start ftp then transfer your file then exit ftp then type
'exit RETURN' to return to telnet and continue specifying commands
on the IGC computer.

If you're using MacIP on a Macintosh, then you can have an ftp
window and a telnet window.

If you're using the NCSA telnet command on an MSDOS computer, then
you don't have a separate ftp command, and your telnet program
provides only an ftp server not an ftp client; the IGC system does
not provide an ftp client to talk to NCSA telnet's ftp server.  So
you won't be able to use the ftp protocol directly from your MSDOS
computer.  If you can get an account on a multi-user computer at
your campus that's accessible from telnet on your MSDOS computer,
then you can telnet from your MSDOS computer to the campus
multi-user computer and login to that computer, and from there use
the multi-user campus computer's telnet and ftp commands to
contact the IGC computer.  Then use ftp on your campus computer to
transfer files to and from your MSDOS computer.

DOWNLOADING:

Downloading using FTP is similar to uploading-- just in reverse.
You must first inform the IGC Networks that you will be performing
an FTP download:

>From the Mail? or Conf? prompts, select (c)apture, followed by
Status: RO

(d)ownload.  If Status: R

in Conf mode, you'll be asked to identify what you want to
download.  You will then be asked for a protocol.  Select (f)tp.

You will then see:

OK.  Now log in to this machine with anonymous ftp, and get the
file download/<yourloginID>

As in the case with uploading, use your university computer's FTP
command to log in to igc.org or cdp.igc.org.
Use the account name (login name)
'anonymous' with a password of 'guest' or 'ident'.  Change
directory to 'download'.  (If you are still logged in from a
previous FTP session, and moving from 'upload' to 'download', you
may have to change directories twice: first just do a 'cd' back to
the ftp home directory; then 'cd download'.)

Use your system's FTP command to download the file to your system.
On our system, the file will have as its name your login ID.  You
may name it as you wish on your system.

A few useful FTP Commands:

  cd <directory>  -  Change to Directory named <directory> on
  IGC.  put <filename> <loginID>  -  transfer file from YOUR
  computer to IGC.  get <loginID> <filename>  -  transfer file
  from IGC to YOUR computer.

Note that with some ftp software you may not be able to specify a
second argument to 'put' or 'get', in which case the file on your
own computer will need to be called <loginID> also.

WARNING: FTP downloads are not completely secure.  There may be a
small window of time during which someone else might be able to
have access to your file.  We therefore recommend you do not use
FTP for documents that you strongly want to keep private.

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