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a bunch of good stuff from Jim Warren
``` In this message I've edited down three or four issues of Jim Warren's digest on privacy and on-line government information, with praise and apologies to Jim. Topics include how to get the text of the Digital Telephony bill so you can help monitor its implementation, other US Congress information on-line, the California Voter Guide (once again, a pretty good model for others to emulate and improve upon), new discussion lists on community info systems and European environmental issues, and much else.
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 21:17:00 -0700
From: Jim Warren
$500,000,000.00 ALLOCATED TO MAKE UNITED STATES TELECOMM "WIRETAP READY"
Appropriately in the dark of the night, Congress passed HR 4922, the national wiretap bill, about 9:30 pm on Oct. 7th. Half a billion tax dollars was authorized to begin making your, and my, and every previously- presumed-innocent citizen and business in Amerika undetectably wire-tappable by a remote keystoke, by whichever incumbent politicians and bureaucrats are willing to use their control of the system. Bill language implies that telecomm rate-payers will get to pay for the rest of the work to make their phones trivially tapable.
Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover never had it so good. And poor ol' LBJ had to use his control of the IRS to harass his political opponents. They must surely be envious from their graves. George Orwell was wrong -- but only by ten years.
I URGE YOU -- fetch a copy of the actual legislation and READ ITS ACTUAL MANDATES. Do NOT depend on others' interpretations of it, including mine.
From ftp.eff.org , fetch /pub/EFF/Policy/Digital_Telephony/digtel94.bill . It has been updated to the text of the final version, passed by Congress.
--jim
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PRECURSOR TO UNITED STATES ACCESS FEES?
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) Subject: Australia -- interesting test case
BILLING BY THE BYTE Internet users in Australia face a new system of charges in January that could cost them as much as $1.50 (U.S.) for every megabyte of information they send or receive. Currently, faculty members pay nothing, and universities pay a fixed annual fee based on the operating grant they receive from the federal government. Details are still being worked out, but AARNET says the change is necessary to upgrade the network: "The increase in capacity is in response to the apparently insatiable demand for Internet access in Australia..." says AARNET's general manager. (Chronicle of Higher Education 10/3/94 A23)
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HEADS UP! NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE & KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLY PROPOSALS
Thu, 6 Oct 1994 23:33:31 -0400
From: Stanton McCandlish
There's been a flurry of document-releasing recently at the Information Infrastructure Task Force, the National Performance Review, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Patent & Trademark Office. EFF is archiving many of the more important documents, including several time-sensitive notices of inquiry, annoucements of conferences, and requests for comments, all of which YOU can participate in.
How much of this is hype and how much of this deserves serious attention is a good question, but one might wish to keep in mind that the more agencies talk about regulating NII issues at the same time they are talking about the NII being more like (or just plain being) the Internet, the closer they are to talking about regulating the Internet outright. Speak up now or forever hold thy peace. There are several Requests for Comment included in here, and you owe it to yourself to submit clear and direct comments letting regulators know what you think needs to be done or not done.
Available from:
ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/OP/ gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Policy/OP http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/OP/
[NOTE: Due to large number of IITF docs, IITF material maybe moved to a Gov_docs subdirectory of .../OP - if you find that the files aren't there, just append Gov_docs to the paths above. This move is not imminent, but probably eventual.]
cat_iitf.charter - Charter of the IITF Committee on Applications and Tech.
fed_med_edu_agri_nii_funding.notices - pile of Federal govt. funding mechan- ism and grant notices re: agricultur- al telecom, telemedicine, and distance learning.
gii_iitf.note - Short IITF document on the Global Information Infrastructure. Maybe some less parochial memes are catching on?
hiawg_iitf.charter - Charter of the IITF Health Information and Applications Working Group
iitf.faq - factsheet on IITF, what it is, and what it does.
iitf_0912.report - monthly IITF Committee Report for Sept. 1994
iitf_goals_nii.paper - Selection of IITF papers, "The Information Infrastruc- ture: Reaching Society's Goals".
nii_access_051394_ntia_cpuc_hearing.summary - Summary of NTIA and Calif. Pub. Utility Commission hearing on open access and the NII
nii_access_051394_ntia_cpuc_hearing.transcript - transcript of above hearing
nii_prinicples_progress.report - Clinton Administration "NII Progress Report" and "NII Principles and Actions: A Checklist of Progress" report, 93-94. See also WWW version at: gopher://www.arpa.mil:80/0/NII_Report_94.html
nist_nii_framework.report - NIST report, "Framework for NII Services". See http://www.eff.org/papers/otherpapers.html for WWW version with graphics.
npr_it_082294.report - NPR report, "Reengineering Through Information Technology"
ntia_iitf_nii_94_hearings.report - NTIA/IITF summary of 1994 hearings on NII, open access and universal service. Subtitled "America Speaks Out", natch.
ntia_iitf_uniserv_conf.announce - Announcement of NTIA/IITF virtual conference on universal service and the NII. * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: OCT. 14, 1994 *
ntia_uniserv_access.noi - NTIA Notice of Inquiry on NII universal service & open access issues. * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: DEC. 14, 1994
omb_gils.notice - OMB bulletin on establishment of a Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
pto_iitf_nii_security.rfc - Request for Comments and Notice of Hearing (PTO and IITF) on Commercial Security in the NII. TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: OCT. 13, 1994
pto_intprop_extension.rfc - Extenstion to deadline for comments submitted in response to PTO's Request for Comments on draft report on the NII and Intellectual Property Rights. * TIME SENSITIVE - DEADLINE: OCT. 21, 1994 *
putting_ii_to_work_iitf.report - IITF report: "Putting Information Infrastructure to Work"
putting_ii_to_work_iitf.comments - public comments from a variety of individuals and organizations on the above report
s1822_doc_irving_092094.testimony - Dept. of Commerce Asst. Secy. Larry Irving's Sept. 20 1994 US Senate testimony before the Antitrust, Monopolies and Bus- iness Rights Subcommittee of the Judiciary on S. 1822, the would-be Communications Act of 1994 (Senate companion to the Markey bill, HR. 3636, which implemented most of EFF's Open Platform NII provisions)
satel_gii_doc_irving_hr_072894.testimony - Dept. of Commerce's Larry Irving testimony to House of Rep. on satellite-based technologies and the GII
tpwg_cat_iitf.charter - Charter of the Technology Policy Working Group of the Committee on Applications and Technology of IITF
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mech@eff.org
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE ... FOR A PRICE (SO FAR)
From 75300.2105@compuserve.com Wed Oct 5 09:52:13 1994 From: "Lawrence J. Magid" <75300.2105@compuserve.com>
The U.S Government Printing Office (GPO) now has all Congressional bills available online. For the time being, there is a price attached to much of that information, but public activists hope to convince the government that citizens should have "free" access to information for which they have already paid taxes.
According to the GPO, The Congressional Bills database contains all published versions of House and Senate bills introduced since the start of the 103rd Congress. The Congressional Bills database joins the official Government versions of the Congressional Record and the Federal Register that have been offered in electronic format over the Internet through the GPO Access service since June.
Cost to access the databases can be as high as $105 per month and that charge was the focus of a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 4, between Wayne Kelly, the Superintendent of Documents and representatives of the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable in Washington.
On the agenda is a Taxpayer Assets Project (TAP) proposal, "Free after Six," which would suspend all database access charges during non-business hours. TAP was founded by Ralph Nader to monitor the management of government property, including information systems and data.
The Congressional Bills and the Record and Register databases are also available for free electronic searches to walk-in patrons of many of the nation's 1,400 depository libraries under a "GPO Access" program authorized by law and launched in June. The Depository Library System includes academic, public, law, and Federal libraries. There is at least one Federal depository library in every Congressional district.
Information about how to subscribe to the Congressional Bills, Record, or Register databases is available by calling GPO at 202-512-1530 or by fax at 202-512-1262. Internet E-mail (GO MAIL) should be sent to help@eids05.eids.gpo.gov. --James Moran
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CALIFORNIA ONLINE VOTER GUIDE
From kimalex@netcom.com Tue Oct 4 15:25:29 1994
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kim Alexander Tuesday, October 4, 1994 (916) 737-6270 email: kimalex@netcom.com
CALIFORNIA VOTING INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET
The California Voter Foundation announced today the availability of the California Online Voter Guide, an electronic resource of voting information accessible to the public free of charge on the Internet. Pacific Bell has donated a storage site for the information in a specialized computer called a "server". Users may access the guide by using the "gopher" tool and typing "gopher.kn.pacbell.com" (no parentheses).
The Online Voter Guide contains a wealth of information provided by California statewide candidates, the California Journal, and the Center for Civic Literacy. Candidates in the races for Governor, U.S. Senate and Superintendent of Public Instruction have supplied biographies, press releases, endorsements, speeches and position papers, either electronically or on computer disk. The guide also includes job descriptions that detail the duties, salaries and past and present officeholders of each statewide office. CVF will be seeking and uploading information from other statewide candidates over the next two weeks.
"The Online Voter Guide provides statewide candidates with an extraordinary opportunity to get their message out to thousands of voters and students at no cost to the campaigns. This is a win-win situation for everyone involved," said Kim Alexander, Executive Director of the California Voter Foundation (CVF). "Most voters want to make informed electoral decisions, and every campaign develops materials such as biographies, press releases and speeches, but they simply can't afford to mail this material to California's 14 million registered voters. We all know that campaigns should be longer on substance and shorter on sloganeering, but the truth is that candidates have never had a communication medium that allows them to broadly disseminate significant information in a cost-effective manner - until now." Experts estimate that there are over one million Internet users in California.
"New communication technologies allow for fast, inexpensive and widespread dissemination of information, and may, in the long run, decrease the cost of campaigning by lessening a candidate's reliance on more expensive and less efficient communication mediums, such as direct mail and television," Alexander said.
The California Voter Foundation developed the Online Voter Guide in cooperation with Pacific Bell's Knowledge Network Gateway program, which is testing a service to provide California students with high-speed computer access to the Internet and other education resources. "The Online Voter Guide is being incorporated into the educational curriculums of 19 Knowledge Network Gateway schools throughout California, involving an estimated 10,000 students," said Austene Hall, Knowledge Network Gateway Product Manager. "Pacific Bell is pleased to help students use new information technologies to enhance their educational experience while expanding their knowledge of the election process," Hall added.
The Online Voter Guide will also be used in the Kids Voting programs in Sacramento and San Jose, which introduce students to the electoral process by holding mock elections. "Kids Voting teaches students about the rights and responsibilities of voting. We are promoting the Online Voter Guide as a resource for schools to use in conjunction with our curriculum," said Ken Loman, Executive Director of Kids Voting California.
"California's continuous decline in voter turnout is partly due to the apathy of young Californians," Alexander said, "If we want to boost voter turnout in the future, we must begin now by teaching California's students how to be informed and conscientious voters," she added.
In the last twelve years, the percentage of the 18-29 year olds that comprise the California electorate has shrunk by fifty percent. In 1982, 18 percent of voting Californians fell into the 18-29 age bracket; by 1994 that percentage had dropped to nine percent. "Young Californians may not be reading the newspaper or watching the evening news, but they have a higher propensity to use computers compared to most other people. We can now reach a large segment of non-voters simply by approaching them in a medium they use and understand," Alexander said.
Evidence of the demand for on-line civic information can be found in a recent Macworld survey, which indicates that the public wants to use the information superhighway for civic and educational purposes. The survey found that the highest-ranking service the public hopes the highway will deliver is the ability to vote on-line. "Another advantage of online communication is that the information is there when the public wants it; voters who miss important newspaper articles or television reports will now have another way to become informed," Alexander said.
CVF is also promoting the Online Voter Guide through public libraries, which will soon be installing 177 computer terminals dedicated solely for public access to the Internet. "The State Library wants to increase access to non-partisan voting information. They funded the development of an Easy Reader Voter Guide which condenses the Secretary of State's Ballot Pamphlet into 16 easy-to-skim pages," said Susan Clark, Executive Director of the Center for Civic Literacy. "We are pleased to have the Easy Reader guide included in the Online Voter Guide because it provides a much broader distribution of this material. Our research also shows that voters want election information in a variety of formats that are suited to their own lifestyles and schedules," Clark added.
The Online Voter Guide was funded through contributions from Oracle, the Intel Foundation, Pacific Telesis, Pacific Bell, Pacific Gas and Electric, GTE, Apple, AT&T and Macworld. "The California Voter Foundation is thankful for the generous support and contributions we've received for this project," said Michael Twombly, CVF President. "Pacific Bell has performed a tremendous public service for California voters and students by providing technical support and an Internet server for this project. We are also grateful to the California Journal and its talented writers for providing us with their insightful and informative election articles," Twombly said. "For the students who will be using our guide to learn about California elections, it is important to provide them with some balance and objective analysis about these candidates and measures," he added.
The California Voter Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)3 organization founded in 1989 by former California Secretary of State March Fong Eu. Comments, questions and feedback about the Online Voter Guide should be sent via e-mail to: ovg@kn.pacbell.com.
[Okay, all you other states ... what are you doing like this? --jim]
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EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DISCUSSION LIST
From owner-new-list@VM1.NODAK.EDU Fri Sep 23 15:08:56 1994
From: Rossen Roussev REC
ENVCEE-L on listserv@REC.HU Environment in Central and Eastern Europe
The ENVCEE-L was formed as an open, unmoderated discussion list by the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) in order to discuss Environmental Issues in the following countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
The main mission of this list is to promote cooperation among diverse environmental groups and interests in Central and Eastern Europe; to act as a catalyst for developing solutions to environmental problems in this region; and to promote the development of a civic society.
To subscribe to ENVCEE-L, send the following command to listserv@REC.HU in the BODY of e-mail:
SUBSCRIBE ENVCEE-L yourfirstname yourlastname
Archives of ENVCEE-L mail items are kept in monthly files. You may obtain a list of the available files in the archives by sending the command
INDEX
in the BODY of e-mail to listserv@REC.HU.
Plese note that this is not the L-Soft revised LISTSERV. Send a message with a BODY containing the word HELP in order to get more information about the listserver.
Owner: Rossen Roussev
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WASHINGTON NET-FAX TECH FACTS - YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE
From mech@eff.org Thu Oct 6 14:50:50 1994
From: Stanton McCandlish
The tpc.int net-fax ("remote printer") service does NOT cover Washington DC govt. numbers (at least, it does not cover the obvious ones, like Congress.) This is due to abuse of the gateway by people sending flames and spam to Congressfolks, and abuse of the gateway by govt. employees to fax for free to other govt. employees to shave a little off their budgets.
Currently the only DC-area exchanges covered are:
Canada and the United States (+1) +1-202- (Only exchanges 219 234 268 366 395 456 482 628 647 687 720 842) Washington, D.C. [note absence of Congress: 224, 225, 226] +1-301 Capital Heights, MD +1-410 [suburban MD; not as close to DC as 301]
Note absence of coverage for +1-703 (DC-area northern VA)
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"He's an honest politician. He stays bought." -- Robert Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
HOUSE LEGISLATION ON FREE WAIS SERVER, REP. ZIMMER PRESS RELEASE
FROM TAP-From: Michael Ward
Distributed to TAP-INFO, a free Internet Distribution List (subscription requests to listproc@essential.org)
TAXPAYER ASSETS PROJECT - INFORMATION POLICY NOTE CROWN JEWELS CAMPAIGN - LEGIS July 30, 1994
As indicated earlier, the House of Representatives House Information Services (HIS) has placed the full text of all house bills on a WAIS server, which is available at no charge. The original annoucement of the service was made by Terry Nugent (using the email address of HIS@HR.HOUSE.GOV). Representative Charlie Rose (D-NC, crose@hr.house.gov) was responsible for the decision. According to Representative Rose's staff, he has received hundreds of email messages asking for access to legislative information and in support of the "free after six" proposal for the GPO Access program.
A number of other persons played important roles, including Representative Dick Zimmer (R-NJ, dzimmer@hr.house.gov), who has been increasingly active on public access issues.
We have been able to access the bills through gopher servers at idi.net and bell.com. We are informed that the House of Representatives gopher, gopher.house.gov, the Library of Congress gopher (loc.marvel.gov) and APSA gopher (apsa.trenton.edu) can access the bills through the WAIS server, and I'm sure that the data is now available from other sites as well.
On July 30, 1994, the Electronic Public Information Newsletter (EPIN) said it was publishing a story that quotes sources from the House Information Service as saying that they wanted to include on the free WAIS service the full text of Senate Bills and the Congressional Record, both of which are now available to members of congress through the house LEGIS service, but that they were prevented from doing so at this time by the Joint Committee on Printing, which oversees the GPO Access program. We have no independent confirmation of this report, which if true, is distrubing. (EPIN is an independent newsletter that covers public access issues from a data user and library point of view. Libraries who want to support this independent investigative publication should purchase subscriptions. EPIN can be contacted at 301/365-3621 or epin@access.digex.com). On a somewhat related front, Senator Wendell Ford, the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, has reportedly written GPO to indicate that he has no objection to the "free after six" program, and Senator Ford also asked GPO for information requested by TAP on GPO Access subscription information, which Senator Ford indicated would be used in oversight of GPO.
The following is a press release sent to tap-info from Representative Dick Zimmer's office. Representative Zimmer has sponsored a resolution that would put a much wider array of legislative information products on the Internet for free, and he is actively working on this and other public access measures.
james love (jamie@tap.org)
=== Zimmer press release ===
Date: 25 Jul 1994 18:24:18 EST
From: T.MITCHELL
AT ZIMMER'S PRODDING, HOUSE PUTS PENDING LEGISLATION ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. (JULY 25, 1994----FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House of Representatives will make legislation accessible to constituents over the Internet, a month after U.S. Rep. Dick Zimmer introduced legislation calling on House leaders to make the service available to the public.
The congressional "Text of Legislation service" is now available on-line free of charge, according to House Information Systems, which runs the service.
On June 23, Zimmer introduced a resolution to require the House Administration Committee to make all information contained in the congressional Text of Legislation and Legislative Information and Status (LEGIS) services available on the Internet. The Text of Legislation service contains the full text of all bills and resolutions introduced in Congress. LEGIS contains a summary and status of all bills and resolutions introduced in the House and the Senate for the current Congress.
"This is a giant step forward in congressional accountability," Zimmer said. "Until now, people who wanted to read a pending bill had to contact their member of Congress or the Government Printing Office, or pay top dollar to a commercial information service. Now anyone with a computer and a modem can log into the Internet and get that information instantly free of charge."
In April, Zimmer wrote a letter to Rep. Charlie Rose, chairman of the House Administration Committee, urging that all proposed legislation be placed on the Internet. Rose told Zimmer the committee was studying the issue. Zimmer said today he will ask Rose again to put LEGIS information on the Internet as well.
The Internet links computers all over the world, supporting the exchange of information over high-speed data lines. Currently the Internet has more than 8,000 networks which more than one million persons use each day to send and receive electronic mail.
In May, Zimmer linked his Washington, D.C. office to the Internet. His e-mail address for constituents is dzimmer@hr.house.gov.
from more information, contact Todd Mitchel from Representative Zimmer's office, at tmitchel@hr.house.gov
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Subscription requests to tap-info to listproc@essential.org with the message: subscribe tap-info your name
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CABLE TELEVISION INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE DISCUSSION LIST
From owner-new-list@VM1.NODAK.EDU Fri Jul 15 13:05:27 1994 From: NIIbyCTV%MIAVX1.BITNET@VM1.NoDak.EDU Organization: John B Harlan & Miami University (Ohio USA)
NIIbyCTV on LISTSERV@MIAMIU.BITNET - Accessing the NII by Cable TV or LISTSERV@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU
NIIbyCTV is an open, unmoderated discussion list regarding fair and equitable access to the National Information Infrastructure (NII) via Cable Television (CTV).
Archives of NIIbyCTV list traffic are kept in monthly files. You may obtain a list of files in the archives by sending the command INDEX NIIbyCTV
in the BODY of e-mail to LISTSERV@MIAMIU on BITNET or to LISTSERV@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU on the Internet.
To subscribe, send the following command in the BODY of mail to LISTSERV@MIAMIU on BITNET or LISTSERV@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU on the Internet: SUB NIIbyCTV yourfirstname yourlastname
For example: SUB NIIbyCTV John Q Public
Owner: NIIbyCTV List Coordinator
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BROCK MEEKS' CYBERWIRE DISPATCH LIST - (BROCK WRITES HOT STUFF! --jim)
From owner-new-list@VM1.NODAK.EDU Fri Jul 15 12:22:20 1994
From: "Eric S. Theise"
CyberWire Dispatch, officially launched in January of this year, has rapidly gained recognition as a hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners news service that concentrates on issues relevant to Cyberspace.
Dispatch is written by Brock N. Meeks as a free service for the Net. It offers commentary, investigations and hard news relevant to issues of the day. Meeks brings to Dispatch his skills as a daily reporter with more than 10 of experience on the Internet. He uses the same journalistic guidelines and ethics that have brought him journalism awards in 7 of the last 10 years, including a National Press Club journalism prize awarded him in July 1994.
Dispatch now has its own mailing list. It's ONE WAY, receive
ONLY. When you subscribe, you get only the news. No noise.
No cross-talk, no chatter. You can send feedback directly to
Brock
To subscribe to cwd-l, send the following command to majordomo@cyberwerks.com in the BODY of e-mail:
subscribe cwd-l
Owner: Eric S. Theise
Back issues of CyberWire Dispatch and information about the Brock Meeks Defense Fund are available via gopher at cyberwerks.com and via the World-Wide Web at http://cyberwerks.com:70/1/cyberwire
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COMMUNITY-WIDE EDUCATION & INFORMATION SERVICES - DISCUSSION LIST
From owner-new-list@VM1.NODAK.EDU Mon Sep 19 08:33:31 1994
From: Tamara Blaschko
CWEIS on LISTPROC@MTN.ORG
Community Wide Education and Information Services (CWEIS)
CWEIS is an unmoderated discussion list for the discussion of the Community Wide Education and Information Services (CWEIS) initiative. The purpose of the list is to facilitate discussion between various communities engaged in CWEIS projects, provide a place for community participation in the design of the CWEIS projects and to review CWEIS's role in the community information services movement.
Twelve community computer networking projects were funded across the nation, launching an initiative designed to develop and encourage free public access to education and information on-line services, and using local public radio and television stations as a nucleus. The 12 winning projects, selected by CPB from among 90 proposals submitted by local public stations in 38 states, are located in Alaska, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington.
The initiative calls for regional, state and local public interest institutions such as schools libraries, museums, medical centers and local governments to join with local public radio or television stations. Help build a community-based telecommunications infrastructure that will provide access to essential services on the information superhighway.
This project is supported in part with funds provided by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in partnership with U S WEST.
The list is sponsored by the Minneapolis Telecommunications Network (MTN) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) community networking initiative.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private, nonprofit corporation that oversees the growth of taxpayer-supported public radio, television, and on-line services for the American people.
Minneapolis Telecommunications Network (MTN) is a nonprofit cable access center in Minneapolis providing telecommunications training and Internet connections to nonprofit organizations, schools and government and public access terminals in local libraries, community centers and nonprofit organizations.
To subscribe to this list, send the following command to LISTPROC@MTN.ORG in the BODY of an electronic mail message:
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For example: SUBSCRIBE CWEIS Jane Doe
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ANOTHER VARIATION ON POLICE-STATE AMERIKA [fits nicely with nat'l wiretaps] From Banisar@epic.org Tue Jul 12 19:29:21 1994 [more from the email swamp] Subject: New National ID Card Proposal
CBS Evening News just reported that Clinton has "tenatively signed off" on a National ID card recommended to him by a commission on immigration reform. The obstensive reason for the card is for employment and immigration. Each card will contain a name, photo, mag stripe with info and a "verified SSN." It was supported by Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a long-time supporter of id cards. Gov. Pete Wilson of California has apparently offered to make California a test-bed for the proposal. The proposal was opposed by Xavier Beccera, a Congressman from California. A previous effort to impose a national id card was rejected by Congress in 1986.
EPIC is working with Privacy International to investigate this report. PI has led successful campaigns aginst national id cards in Australia, New Zealand, and the Phillipines. In Australia, the PI-led campaign led to the dissolution of both houses of the federal Parliament in 1987 after hundrends of thousands marched in protest. The Australian campaign brought together groups from all parts of the political spectrum from the Communist Party to the Libertarian Alliance, farmers and conservation groups, rock stars, academics, large businesses such as banks and mining corporations, but the overwhelming support came from the public who created the biggest civil protest in Australian history.
David Banisar (banisar@epic.org) Electronic Privacy Information Center 666 Penn. Ave, SE #301, Washington, DC 20003 202-544-9240 (v) 202-547-5482 (f)
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POINTER TO INFO INDUSTRY'S POLICY DISCUSSIONS
From iia.ipo@his.com Fri Jul 15 14:59:21 1994 Organization: Heller Information Services, Inc., Rockville MD Subject: INFORMATION POLICY ONLINE-JULY
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IN THIS ISSUE: [1] Administration NII Copyright Report Hailed [2] House OKs Telecom Reform [3] High Court Nixes Forebearance [4] NRENaissance: Observations of a Committee Member, by Cynthia H. Braddon, Vice President, Washington Affairs, McGraw-Hill, Inc. [5] Library of Congress Switches Gears on Fund Legislation [6] Dissemination Is to Access as Paperwork Is to . . . FOIA? [7] Health Care Reform and Health Care Data Collection 101 [8] About INFORMATION POLICY ONLINE and the Information Industry Association
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ABOUT INFORMATION POLICY ONLINE AND THE INFORMATION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION ABOUT "INFORMATION POLICY ONLINE"
INFORMATION POLICY ONLINE (IIA-IPO) is an online newsletter published on the Internet by the Information Industry Association and distributed free of charge. The purpose of the Newsletter is to inform readers of events and activities affecting information policy, and to present an information industry viewpoint concerning these events and activities.
IIA-IPO is copyrighted by the Information Industry Association; however, IIA-IPO is distributed without charge and may be freely reproduced and redistributed. Please acknowledge IIA-IPO as the source of the information when quoting or redistributing the newsletter.
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President of the IIA: Kenneth B. Allen
Editor of Information Policy Online: Steven J. Metalitz, IIA
Vice President and General Counsel
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Mo' as it Is. --jim GovAccess is an email distribution-list of irregular postings, maintained by Jim Warren, columnist for MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc. 345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax/<# upon request> jwarren@well.com -or- jwarren@autodesk.com >> Permission herewith granted for unlimited reposting and recirculation.<< >> Past postings are at ftp.cpsr.org:/cpsr/states/california/govaccess << >> To add or drop the GovAccess list, email to jwarren@well.com . << ```
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