cd3wd must be one of the most cost effective methods of dissemination of valuable information at the present time, indispensible and invaluable for field development specialists -Ben de Vries (USA)
Hi Mr. Alexender Weir,
We are a new Angolan university whose component of formation
is the distance learning.
Ours approach is in the education of engineering,
management, administration and technologies.
We had knowledge of your work through the last e-learning
Africa in the Kennia.
A time that, was done reference has existence of works in
Portuguese, we consulted your page of web to perceive that type of
contents was available. We verified that only existed 4 works in Portuguese
whose thematic is related with agriculture.
We liked to know if you have works in Portuguese who is not
in the Internet; if you have studies of Angola in the thematic where we
work; if it is possible to establish a dialogue that in allows us to
advance for a possible allotment of knowledge.
We ask you excuses for our English.
We are waiting your contact.
Regards
Ana Kitller
19 June
2007
First I want to congratulate on your excellent page, but I can´t find the way to download the information.
I live in Argentina and I can´t find this type of documents here, I thank god I learned English.
Thank you
Adrian
Dear Alex,
This is to acknowledge your mail. As discussed in the afternoon, I
will be downloading the materials and see how beneficial it will be to
my university.
Regards,
Temitope.
Nigeria
29
May 2007
Dear Mr Alex Weir,
Before all just let me congratulate you for your work on compiling all
the information under CD3WD.
Melhores cumprimentos / Best regards,
Luis Cardoso
PORTUGAL
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From: samkad kad
Sent: 21 February 2007 13:41
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: Request for CD3WD
Dear sir, Kindly send to me 2(two) copies of the above named CD.
Thank you,
Kadiri S.A.esq
Mechanical Enginering Dept.,
Federal Polytechnic Ilaro,
P.M.B.50 Ilaro
Ogun state.
Nigeria
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From: Serge [mailto:sbatchilo@gmail.com]
Sent: 12 February 2007 22:44
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: CD3WD Mirror
Hello,
please, please, please, share those 9-41 files. This is good stuff! I'm from
Belarus by the way, and I hope this information will be very useful!
Thank you,
Serge
On 2/10/07, Serge <sbatchilo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I have lots of traffic and space that I'm not really using. My site is @ http://rootof.info.
I might be interested in hosting a mirror of CD3WD. I like what you are doing
and I think it matches the domain name I registered well.
Thank you,
Serge
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From: Loss, Douglas R.
Sent: 07 February 2007 22:42
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD3WD
Hello Alex. I'm going to be visiting South Africa at the end of the month. I've been talking to a schoolteacher friend in rural Limpopo state about helping address perceived needs of some rural villages there. The impetus for this (the village assistance, not the visit itself) came from this website:
http://www.mb-soft.com/public2/pumptw1.html
It turned out that this fellow's pump is unlikely to be what is needed in Limpopo because it doesn't work with bored wells, only surface water or sufficiently wide dug wells. But I still like his idea about getting individual families directly and personally involved in the contact and assistance.
Anyway, as I was talking to my schoolteacher friend, the discussion moved beyond water pumps into treatment systems and other things. He seems to think that assistance with boring new wells would be the most useful thing at the moment. I have a copy of the VITA Technical Paper #61, "Understanding Low-Cost Well Drilling." I noticed that your files cd3wd421.zip and cd3wd422.zip contain a number of PDF documents that sound as though they could be very valuable. Is there any chance I could get copies of them so I can take them along and give them to the people I meet? In keeping with the concept in the website above, I'm hoping to find some device or piece of equipment that isn't easily available in SA that a family in the US can build or buy inexpensively and ship to a village in SA. Barring that, I'm open for suggestions on how to foster direct citizen involvement in assistance to rural third-world villages. Thanks!
Doug Loss
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From: Peter Hardt, Spokane, WA, USA
Sent: 16 November 2006 19:46
To: alex weir
Subject: Re: CD3WD
thanks Alex, what you're doing is a WONDERFUL thing! What an opportunity!!
My daughter is starting an orphanage in Ghana this coming spring. I'm sending her with the documents I downloaded. Do you have a master index that lists documents by topics, or by several different topics? It would be very helpful.
Keep up the good work!
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From: Mr Ender
Sent: 23 November 2006 13:58
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: cd3wd
This looks quite
excellent. I'm attempting to download
the
iso via bittorrent.
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From: T.E. Manning ,
Netherlands
Sent: 14 November 2006 12:00
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: Alex Weir
Dear Alex,
This is to express my wonder
at the marvellous work you have done with CD3WD
which I am now busy
downloading. The world owes you a lot.
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From: Regina Eberle []
Sent: 22 September 2006 22:12
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD3WD
Hi Alex!
I just found out about the CD3WD while searching the web for
information. I’m a Brazilian and I live and work on the
Thank so much.
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From: abraham de dios []
Sent: 16 September 2006 07:02
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: cd3wd question
im Abraham de Dios Jr. from the Philippines, a mechanical engineering graduating student of Technological University of the Philippines. I am currently researching materials for my thesis, and have stumbled upon your website. Thank you, It has been a great help to me. Furthermore, i am overwhelmed by the valuable information avialable in your site and am inspired by your work. i can see so much potential in it, and is very essential and useful here in the Philippines.
I aslo want to be a part of this, pls inform me of whatever assistance i could give you..thank you
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From: isabel de arias
Sent: 04 August 2006 01:44
To: ALEXWEIR1949@YAHOO.COM
Subject:
CD3WD_IN_COUNTRY_DISTRIBUTION
I live in Costa Rica and I
will like to have some of the books . Is
it you the person to ask
about them? Do you have an office in
this
contry to ask for them ?
--regards,
Isabel de Arias
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From: Rajan
Sent: 14 August 2006 08:25
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: Request for cd-rom to india
I am a librarian of a local government institute in india and would you please
send me a copy each of the CD's of CD3WD free of charge for my institution as
they appear to be very useful for our training for local government
functionaries.
Mailing address is as follows:-.
K Rajasekharanairmail Librarian
Kerala Institute of Local administration
Mulagunnathu Kavu
Thrissur 680 581
Kerala State
India
Phone 91-487-2204097
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From: leal birbal [mailto: birball@yahoo.com
Sent: 29 July 2006 17:37
To: ALEXWEIR1949@YAHOO.COM
Subject: RESPONSE
DEAR VALUED FRIEND
I AM FROM SOUTH AFRICA,AND A
TEACHER[EDUCATOR]
BY PROFESSION,UNDER TERRIBLE CONDITIONS.THE TEACHING
CONDITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
ARE HORRIBLE.I DO NOT EVEN
POSSESS A COMPUTER.I HAVE TO
ACCESS MY E-MAIL,FROM THE
INTERNET CAFE.THIS IS REALLY
TERRIBLE
I HAVE RECEIVED THE "OVER 800+ FREE PUBLICATIONS",IN
MY MAILBOX.THANK YOU VERY
MUCH FOR PROVIDING THIS
FREE SERVICE.THE PROBLEM IS THAT
I DO NOT HAVE THE
FACILITY TO DOWNLOAD THIS
VALUABLE INFORMATION.
WILL,IT BE POSSIBLE FOR YOU
TO SEND ME THIS
INFORMATION,BY SNAILMAIL,OR
ORDINARY MAIL.ALL THE
INFORMATION AT YOUR
DISPOSAL.THIS WILL BE PART OF MY
LIBRARY,FOR YEARS TO COME.
REGARDS.
LEAL CHAND BIRBALL
===================================
ADD:105 HIPPO
ROAD,NEWLANDS,DURBAN,4051,KZN,SOUTH
AFRICA
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From: G Pretorius
Sent: 27 July 2006 21:35
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD3WD
Hi Alex
Is it possible for me to buy a copy of the download CD? I live in Cape Agulhas,
South Africa and we only have dialup here, which is a slow and pricy
technology.
I really would like to get a copy of your CD. Could I buy a copy and could you
post it to me?
Regards
Gerard Pretorius
Greetings Alex,
Thanks so much for taking a
part of your time to reply . The info that
you sent is very useful and
enlightening. By the way, I've visited
your site in the past
several times and have downloaded the CD3WD CD .
Great
work !
Sincerely,
Leonidas
I discovered this website today and it is unbelieveable. I want it on a DVD to give to people.
Ken Hargesheimer (USA)
Sent: 02 June 2006 19:28
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD3WD
Dear Alex,
Let me express my recognition for your labour. It is very useful for many communities.
Please, let me know how to obtain a copy of your CD. There are in the Index several subjects of my interest.
Best regards
Gerardo Codesido
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Sent: 16 June 2006 11:53
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD's
Alex,
My name is Danhiro Nyaruwa. I am a Zimbabwean. I have seen
the work you are doing distributing this vital information to developing
countries. I honestly think it's a great help to these countries. I have seen
your request for volunteers for CD mailing requests and would like to volunteer
to contribute to this noble cause.
Regards,
Danhiro
Nyaruwa.
From: Steve Spence (USA)
Sent: 30 May 2006 17:51
To: 'alex weir'
Subject: RE: more stuff
How
can I help you with your project? I want to be part of this.
From:
Andrew Ellem
Sent: 28 May 2006 02:45
Subject: CD Distribution Volunteer
Alex,
I've just found your page and discovered some very useful information... Thanks very much for the
hosting...
All the best
Andrew
Canberra, Australia.
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From: luc.grandjean (France)
Sent: 29 May 2006 22:52
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: cd.iso CD3WD
Dear Alex,
I try hard to find where to
download a iso file, with or withour
torrent .... any kind of help appreciated ...
It seems you did a great job
....
Luc
consultant
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From: Melvin Hendrix, PermaCycle (USA)
Sent: 16 May 2006 18:02
To: alex weir
Subject: Re: CD3WD_37
Alex, thanks for your reply and
glad to know that you are indeed well and making sure that good things, like
the 3WDCD, continue.
----- Original Message ----
From: Peter Bellen
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2006 7:29:53 AM
Subject: need help in downloading CD3WD
Dear Sir,
I wanted to download the CD3WD from the web so I can share it to development organization in the Philippines, however there seems to be some problem, as the files could not be downloaded. Can you please help me?
Thank you very much.
Sincerely yours,
Peter Bellen
Programme Coordinator for the Philippines
Kindernothilfe, Germany
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From: gaity simuusa
Sent: 28 February 2006 22:35
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD3WD
Dear Sir
Greetings. My name is Mulyango Simuusa from the town of Choma in the country of Zambia. Browsing the internet I came across the CD3WD. I could tell that this is a very useful resource and I am very keen to get it. However,I am having great difficulty downloading it and write to inquire whether there is another way the CD can be procured. Your effort to make that kind of material available to the developing nations at no cost is a gesture I greatly appreciate.
Yours truly,
Mulyango
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From: Ben Hindley Group
Sent: 04 April 2006 17:27
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD3WD - Helping the
3rd World to help itself
Dear Sirs!
I have had a look at your
material and we would be very happy to put
this material in our
TCBN-TeleLearn Centres in India and Africa.
We are also developing a
$100 computer system for third world countries
and would like to also offer
your material with our Computers.
We are presently re-vamping
our web-site and would like to post this
material on our web-site.
I am living in Canada and
have partners in Africa, India and South America.
If I can be of any
assistance please let me know
Thanking you in advance
Ben Hindley
Operations Manager
TCBn-India
Ben Hindley Group
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Ethan Zuckerman's musings on Africa, international development and hacking the
media.
March 16, 2006
Three Africa-focused projects
Filed under: Africa, Media, ICT4D — Ethan @ 5:35 pm
Three interesting Africa-centric projects that came into my inbox today:
- Alex Weir, a former Geekcorps volunteer in Rwanda, has compiled a CDROM
filled with information useful for grassroots development projects around the
developing world. The project - called CD3WD (CD Third World) - compiles
documents from disks put together by organizations like VITA and other public
domain information on agriculture, food processing, fishing, solar cookers,
desalinization, biodiesel, pedal power, small-scale wind energy, construction
techniques, computer training, and hundreds of other useful topics. The
information can be downloaded and burned to CDs, so that if you’re heading to the
developing world, you can burn CDs and hand them out to educators, village
leaders or other people who can disseminate and use the information. Much of
the information is available in multiple languages and all of it is available
under an open license. Alex hopes to ship this information with the device
provided by the One Laptop Per Child project, but is encouraging other IT
specialists working in the developing world to download and burn the whole CD,
or select appropriate topics and download those specific documents.
http://www.greeningtheapocalypse.com/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=19&Itemid=23
CD3WD
Project - Helping the 3rd World to help itself
AMAZING array of self-sufficiency information out of Africa
From: Lemiere Bruno
Sent: 03 April 2006 11:20
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject:
Thanks to TOPICA network, I
discovered your extremely useful CD3WD resource.
I am also interested in irrigation topics (in
Egypt), but the link at http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/Irrigate.HTM seems to be broken.
You may list me as interested when it will be updated.
Yours sincerely,
Bruno Lemière, project manager
BRGM (French Geological Survey)
EPI - Environment & Process Division
45060 ORLEANS Cedex 2, France
Pensez à visiter le site BRGM sur.... http://www.brgm.fr/
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From: Tabletop Homestead
Sent: 02 April 2006 15:32
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD3WD
Alex,
I stumbled across your CD3WD site. What an incredible project! I had found pieces of this info and am ecstatic to have it all in one place. Unfortunately, I'm unable to download the work. (sigh. . . .) Is there some way I could help you get this information distributed? It's so important not only for 3rd world folks but for poor people and others such as myself who choose simple living right here in America. Thank you again for your work.
Judy
Bowman
Tabletop Homestead
Foster, OK, USA
www.tabletophomestead.org
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From: Marcus Robbins (UK)
Sent: 22 March 2006 21:07
To: alex weir
Subject: RE: CD3WD site / FAO review
Dear Alex,
Many thanks for this - excellent! - will be downloading and distributing forestry titles to some students soon. Will also update my website reports that mention your site.
Best wishes
Marcus
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From: joshlai (Singapore)
Sent: 16 March 2006 02:29
To: 'alex weir'
Subject: RE: CD3WD
Dea Alex,
Thanks for putting in the work to further the
benefits of mankind.
God bless.
Cheers.
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From: Boyd T. Taylor (USA)
Sent: 01 March 2006 16:42
To: alex weir
Subject: Re: CD3WD
Alex,
Thanks for your prompt reply, by the way, I sincerely appreciate the work you
have done in compiling this information and making it available via the
Internet (it obviously required a great deal of time and effort to create
and no doubt still requires a lot on your part to maintain and update), and
look forward to being able to download CD3WD.
Again, thank you.
Sincerely,
Boyd Taylor
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From: David Miller (UK)
Sent: 01 March 2006 03:21
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: I have some
bandwidth for CD3WD
Hi Alex;
I ran across http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/3wdev/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM
after reading about it on the biofuels mailing list. The server for it is
obviously overloaded. I have a server with quite a bit of
bandwidth to
throw at it; if I can get a
copy of it faster than from gnuveau I'll put
it up and help relieve the
bottleneck.
Let me know.
Thanks,
--- David
Of course, when CD3WD takes off, it will eliminate a large amount of the need for NGOs. Darwinism at its finest.
Ben (USA)
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From: Marcus Robbins
Sent: 08 December 2005 18:56
To: ALEXWEIR1949@YAHOO.COM
Subject: CD3WD site / FAO
review
Dear Alex,
I have been doing reviews of
agroforestry and tree seed extension literature
on the web, for FAO, and
somehow discovered your CD3WD site. It was of great
interest, as I was trying to
identify documents that were useful, but as yet
not digitised - and it was
to my surprise that I found many useful documents
already done.
I wish to make a reference
to your site in my study, and if possible include
several of the relevant
digitised documents on a CD version of the reviews.
May I do this? Of course I
would make reference in both reviews of your site
and the work you have
done. I shall shortly try to download
all your CD,
and make sure FAO know about
it (I am sure some people do, but not the ones
I spoke to!
I have just been at a
conference at Oxford, UK celebrating the centenary of
100 year of Forest
Information, and your site is one of those that everyone
needs to know about in their
attempts to make information better available.
Are you planning to digitise
other documents? - if so, what would they be. I
am really interested to know
how you decided to do such a mammoth task of
digitisation, and how you
chose the documents. I was particularly pleased to
find the ILO publication on
tree planting (FAO have just digitised the
companion volume on tree
nurseries, and also the roadside bioengineering
manual from Nepal - and the
VITA document on environmentally sound forestry
production (both of which I
have)
Many thanks for this
valuable resource.
Best wishes
Marcus Robbins
A. Marcus J. Robbins
Forestry Consultant
Oxford, OX2 8NR, UK
(Personal website: www.marcusrobbins.co.uk )
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From: Ben de Vries (USA)
Sent: 07 December 2005 17:43
To: alex weir
Subject: Re: CD3WD
Thanks so much Alex,
The work is very impressive. These collected manuals and materials could be vital to our development projects. I will find a way to download to CD.
Ben de Vries
Kwanza Investments
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From: stehen chalimba
Sent: 20 October 2005 20:22
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD3WD
Dear Alex
I managed to download the library CD as I requested from you sometime back. Un fortunately I cant access the Cd because it is in ISO format.
I would like to request if any package is available such that I can access the Cd.
Stephen
EWB Malawi (Engineers Without Borders)
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From: AntonioC (UK)
Sent: 18 March 2006 00:02
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: Hello!
Importance: High
I want to thank you for your work. I have no money to give
to you but I would like to give you the following link
I’m teaching in CICD –
http://www.cicd-volunteerinafrica.org/
We like solutions like yours and at the moment I’m
downloading your files to show to our students.
Any help you can think I can give, please, contact me.
Regards
Antonio
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From: Blazek, Eric M. (USA)
Sent: 16 March 2006 20:44
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD3WD and Intentional Communities
Hello Mr. Weir,
I was the one of the first to download the new CD3WD from
download.com… When I first searched for the files, it showed 0 downloads, now
two hours later, a few of the files already have 50 downloads. Thanks for
all your work on this project.
I am currently working with the Fellowship of Intentional
Communities (http://www.ic.org), an
international organization of people interested in a wide range of aspects
dealing with intentional communities. We are right now talking about
adding a Wiki to the website and are in discussions with a number of content
providers (like yourself) who have published materials that might be of
interest to the IC community. If you are not familiar with Wiki, see the
Wikipedia at http://www.wikipedia.org
perhaps the largest and most successful wiki at the moment.
Many of our communities are in central America and other third world countries,
and even those in the first world have a great interest in several of the
topics covered in the CD3WD like permaculture, small-scale livestock and
alternative energy. We would like to discuss with you if there are
portions of the CD3WD that may be republished on our website, and under what
copyright license. Please send email whenever you are able.
Thank you,
-eric
Mr. Eric Blazek
The
Website Coordinator
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From: Cyblade (USA)
Sent: 27 March 2006 04:12
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
I enjoyed all the info and really thank you for your work on this cd my friends and I are sharing the info amongst several groups and I will be burning some copies for some missionary friends of mine when the files I mentioned are fixed so that they will get all the important information.
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From: David Minion (USA)
Sent: 20 March 2006 19:52
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: down load site
You have a great set of
programs. But some of us live in places
where
moving that much data is impossible. I only transfer at 2k bits and
that is at best. Is there any way you can put all your info
on a cd and
sell it? I am quite sure you wont be a zero income
org for long.
D Minion
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From: Harish Coolman
Sent:
05 April 2006 17:20
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: Probems with installing
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have successfully installed most of the files for CD3WD,
however, the file APPRTECH is giving the following response: “ERROR: The selected
file could’t get extracted”
What should I do?
Trinidad and Tobago
-----Original Message-----
From: ikenna okpalla
[mailto: okpallaikenna@yahoo.com ]
Sent: 26 January 2006 19:28
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject:
CD3WD_in-country_distribution
please i am intersted in the
distribution of the CD in
my country, Nigeria.
Reply me.
Regards.
IKENNA
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From: William Hatcher
Sent: 23 March 2006 21:22
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: CD-ROM info
Hello Alex
Seems we are kindred spirits
when it comes to delivering information to the
developing world.
I have been teaching
(volunteer) microenterprise development at SIFAT for
the past 6 years. Christian community leaders from developing
countries
come to SIFAT ( www.sifat.org ) in Lineville, Alabama USA for
training in
clean water, agriculture,
sanitation, etc. They return home and teach their
own people. Since its
founding in 1979, SIFAT has trained community leaders
from 76 countries around the
globe.
We just came across your
CD3WD site this morning when we
started doing a search for
individual books to put in our CD-ROM group.
Our
thought now is to copy your
CD and make it available to the participants.
We would then offer for them
to become distributors of the information in
their country.
While our budget is about
the same as yours......$0. We believe
we may be
able to help disseminate
some of your work.
William Hatcher
Mississippi, USA
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From: William Hatcher
Sent: 15 July 2006 19:09
To: alexweir1949@yahoo.com
Subject: Report on Activity
Hello Mr. Weir,
Hope you are doing well.
We just completed our
micro-enterprise sessions in Alabama a few weeks ago.
Attending the session were
community leaders from Philippines, India,
Pakistan, Ghana, Guatemala,
Mexico, Liberia, Bolivia, Haiti and Burundi.
We
were able to supply them
with their own CD-ROM’s of the 800 documents. In
addition to the single CD
with all the information, we unzipped the info and
put it on three additional
CD’s. Each CD has it’s own index and is ready for
immediate use. Using this
method they can use any computer to access the
information.
We have also sent the CD’s
to our contacts in Uganda and encouraged them to
make copies of the CD’s.
Thanks for your help.
William Hatcher
Mississippi - USA
Markku Vesikko
|
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:23:34 -0000 |
-----Original
Message----- Sent: 18 July 2006 20:05 i will promote this wonderful beast you have put together
and get it used in zimbabwe one way or another. watch this space.
I am trying to download CD3WD and got up to 92Mb but then some problem
with server came up. Hope you can fix it or give me another address where
to download it from
Markku
--
Markku Vesikko
Suomen Pakolaisapu - Finnish Refugee Council - Liberia
From: garth drummond (Zimbabwe)
To: alex weir
Subject: Re: thanks a million
cheers,
garth