Hiti Tau - Conseil National Des ONG du pays Maohi is now online with e-mail
communications. The address is: hititau@mail.pf. This acheivement is
celebrated in Faaone, Tahiti today as it was a difficult accomplishment.
Now that we are online the monitoring of our lines has begun - again. You
can visit our new web site at "http://hookele.com/hititau/" which is still
in development.
This is the FIRST Maohi organization online directly. There are only 140
internet access accounts in (French) Polynesia and there were only 10 in
December 1996. The phone company has only this month stopped routing all
electronic communications through France (yes all communications until now
have been routed through France first before connecting to the Internet! -
much like areas of South America who we hear are being routed through
Suisse!)! The phone company has 10 modems and will be upgrading to 20 next
week with a 256k line.
We will be assisting the Maohi with their economic development, sustainable
resourcing and development, multi-media communications, marketing and
self-determination efforts. Your assistance and support directly to their
collective network - NGO "HITI TAU" is appreciated.
Please write Gabi Tetiarahi to welcome them to the Internet!
Maururu
Kekula P. Bray-Crawford, Maoli
(freezoning - netwarrior)
KA PAE `AINA O HAWAI`I LOA
P.S. More to come on the intiatives this month.
PLEASE CIRCULATE ONLINE TO NEWSGROUPS - AND `OHANA!