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Thomas C. Spear: As for Internet Resources website Francophones I posted at the beginning of 1996, it was mostly classzone to provide tools to my students. Teacher and researcher, I forcment classzone affected by the new guidelines of the readings; I have served on committees classzone bibliography for the French division and the Board of new technologies with the organization of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). Thus, the Island Hopping website classzone demonstrates a commitment to providing the world with data on emerging literature or unfamiliar with complete and reliable information. Non-commercial website, he presents the authors of encyclopedic way - a photo, biography, bibliography - a sample of texts and voice carry to the discovery of new talent and to read "offline" of these authors contemporary and island heritage.
At first it was admittedly establish a database. The Internet in graphical format only existed since 1995 and of course the ground was very blank. Search engines are better; databases were developed in unimaginable ways. Yet the digital divide ("the digital divide") remains a concern and has changed little: the "rich" have access to new technologies, the Internet and its virtual libraries; the poor - whether French or not - stay away.
We should first talk about North America. classzone Europe in general and France in particular, have been slow enough to connect to the Internet. Quebecers were quicker to understand the importance and scale of the Web. In fact, a bibliography of francophone literatures that I made was posted on the "gopher" (before graphical web) from the University of Montreal in 1994 by Christian Allegre. Island Hopping was referenced on Québec sites as soon as it is online, such as Planet Quebec, Women-Québec and soon after, in the BREF directory of the Library and National Archives of Quebec. The web was a small community at the time, especially for the French: the first links - recognition classzone if you will - was by solidarity; was the case of Carole Netter classzone ClicNet, Pennsylvania pioneer, or Karen Fung, founder classzone of a first reference site, Africa South of the Sahara. Some important notices at the time, as in the guide to the best Web sites (BonWeb) published in 1999 came from people who knew my first website. This was the case of paper supplement (and the web) Liberation Day to Read in 2000 and Prime Minister of the site, Lionel Jospin in 2001, which pointed Island classzone Hopping no distinction classzone based on the first site data (a collection of links), Internet Resources Francophones.
Subsequently, the recognition has become more official. An important first mention was the selection of Island Hopping EDSITEment by the site of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which recognized the site as early as 2000 as a reference for educators. classzone Surprisingly little, RFI - with its tradition and global vocation for the French-speaking world (pioneering classzone elsewhere classzone on the Internet with an online presence before classzone graphical web) - was among the first in Europe to report Island Hopping and select the site as the week in November 2001 as part of the issuance of Dominique Desauney. Africultures had also selected the site in 2001. The traditional French press has more time to discover not only the Internet but mostly to devote space to the French language authors considered "peripheral" to the so-called French literature. If we take the example of monthly, Read made mention in August &