Networking in Africa...

Mon Dec 2 16:53:59 UTC 2002

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Regards
Marshall Eubanks

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 11:33  AM, Eric Gauthier wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> A friend of mine is working on one of the committees for next years
> Supercomputing conference and noticed that, in the past, they'd had
> participants from most continents but none from Africa.  Does anyone
> know of a good organization/group/etc which we could spam with our
> conference notice and request for participation?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric :)
>
>
> PS: For those who are curious, here's part of the write-up for the SC 
> Global
> portion of next years Supercomputing conference:
>
>> SC Global is the multi-national and multi-cultural meeting place for
>> communication and discussion of ideas relating to high-end computing 
>> and
>> communications and their impact on science and society. SC Global 2003
>> will be the second time we've held such an event; we have the
>> opportunity to build on the successes of SC Global 2001, and to learn
>> from its challenges.
>>
>> SC Global will include several Showcase events featuring art, music,
>> dance, and other innovative uses of advanced collaboration 
>> technologies.
>> In addition, SC Global will be an important extension of SC 2003's
>> high-quality technical program. For example, papers presented in SC
>> Global will meet the same high standards as those in the regular
>> Technical Papers sessions.
>