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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Hello everybody,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">I recently subscribed to the mailing list and
read the last messages about the possibility to dump data from GBIF by using csv
format.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">This type of questions interests me a lot
because I'm currently contributing to a new project called "SABIN" (Sub-Saharan
African Biodiversity Information Network) , which could lead (in the
medium-term) to the installation of a "cache" copy of the GBIF main database
hosted by the Kinshasa University. This copy could act as a relay-server for
GBIF data in </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Central Africa</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">We would also like to encourage institutions
from </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Central
Africa</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> to
install TAPIR providers if they have they have the technical capacity to do so,
and then provide data to GBIF.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">I contacted people working in Congo, who told
me that the Internet facilities are good in Kinshasa but rather poor in the
Eastern part of the country (in the Great Lakes Region).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">For that reason, nine Congolese universities
are currently studying the possibility to use the cellular-phone <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>network to exchange electronic
information, within the framework of a project which is called
Eb@lé.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Do you know if we could use any protocol which
could be installed on top of a Web-Service to use a GSM network as carrier for
Internet information?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">-I would like to know if it's possible to use a
protocol and/or a tool that <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>could
be installed on top <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>on a web
service to connect to a cellular network. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I've heard about WAP 5/6 years ago but it
seems now an obsolete technology. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">-Have you hear about this kind of
infrastructure (cell phone network) involving a TAPIR
provider?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Thanks in advance<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Franck<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV align=left>Franck Theeten</DIV>
<DIV align=left>Database Manager</DIV>
<DIV align=left><A href="http://www.africamuseum.be/">Royal Museum for Central
Africa</A></DIV>
<DIV align=left>Department of African Zoology</DIV>
<DIV align=left>Leuvensesteenweg, 13</DIV>
<DIV align=left>3080 Tervuren, Belgium</DIV>
<DIV align=left>Tel.: +32 2 769 56 24</DIV>
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