BuildArena is a just-launched 'corporate magazine for business,
infrastructure and industry'. Its first issue has a comment on GoaNet:
"Even as the state steadily chugs along, we must also acknowledge the
'Other Goa' -- largely existing as an entity of emotions binding the
nearly 1.5 lakh Goans settled in various parts of the world. Of late, the
hitherto scattered and unorganised Goan diaspora has started to function
in unison as a single grouping linked to each other by new means of
communication like the Internet. Infact, the exaptriate Goan community is
one of the most active on the Internet. One 600 member strong online
community called Goanet has initiated a few programmes in Goa, one of
which involves providing computers to various schools in Goa. There are
others too like the World Wide Goans and the US-based Goa Sudharop
Trust. As the world coimes closer, Goans settled abroad can now play an
incrasingly important role in the progress of the state...."
-- E Michael D'Mello in BuildArena, Inaugural Issue, July 2002
Rs 25 per issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.buildarena.com
Some comments:
* What really *is* the number of Goa's expats? We don't have a clue. Most
are guestimates. Earlier, it was said that there were 100,000 Goans in
Mumbai and 60,000 in Portugal alone. Maybe these figures are above the
actual, but who knows what the actuals are? No survey has ever been
conducted. The GoaNRI's Cell functioning leaves much to be desired... and
is somewhat politicised.
* Goanet's membership figure of 600 seems to be a rather old figure. That
used to be our membership a coupld of years ago, if one recalls
right. Since then, GoaNews (and Eddie Fernandes' GoaNetUK) have grown
significantly, while GoaNet/GoaNetDigest have not grown to potential.
* Lastly, the projects have been taken up by individuals who have been
networked through GoaNet, rather than by GoaNet itself.... networking
itself, and sharing ideas, has its own positive fallouts.
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