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list for discussing global information infrastructure

``` Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 15:31:30 -0500 From: marsha-w@uiuc.edu (Marsha-W)

Join the international conversation:

CPSR-GLOBAL is a new Listserv for uniting people all over the world who want to talk about:

**decisions the USA will make on the information infrastructure, or NII, that will affect the rest of the world--we want the NII to be a positive force for a GII (global information infrastructure)

**issues of national identity, "cultural pollution," and international communication and the GII

**the new emerging GII world culture

**international issues of security and privacy and computer law

**international issues of computer development (keyboards, safety)

**issues of design

**language

And whatever other global issues you want to discuss. Right now the list will be predominately in English, because it's the lingua franca of the Net.

To join this discussion write to listserv@cpsr.org with a blank subject and the email command SUBSCRIBE CPSR-GLOBAL Firstname Lastname where Firstname and Lastname are replaced by your first name and last name. If you are reading this as a welcome message because you've just joined, then welcome!

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELONG TO CPSR TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION!!!

The list owner, Marsha Woodbury, is a Director at Large for CPSR with a strong interest in international cooperation. Write her at marsha-w@cpsr.org.

CPSR, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, is based at a home office in Palo Alto, California, and has 22 chapters. You can learn more about CPSR at http://www.cpsr.org/dox/home.html or by writing to listserv@cpsr.org with the email message HELP. CPSR began as a response to the Star Wars program, when members wrote reports and testified at hearings about the impossibility of providing a "fail-safe" network of nuclear missles in outer space. Today CPSR is interested in all social issues related to the use of computers, from repetitive stress syndrome from keyboard use, to the intrusion into privacy by government and business, and others. CPSR is a highly respected group, whose members are well informed.

The 1,800 members of CPSR have an awareness about the potential benefits of computers to our society, such as their ability to personalize the interface from an otherwise large impersonal society to the individual, but the also understand the large potential risk inherent in the use of computers and computer technology by individuals, governments, and corporations. CPSR asks questions such as, "Will there be equal access to the Information Superhighway" (also called the "Infobahn" or NII)? What can we do to lessen the gap between those who are "information-rich" and those who are "information-poor?"

Marsha Woodbury U of IL, U-C "A simile is like a metaphor." FAX 217-356-7050 ( H) 217-337-0001 (W) 217-244-3390 http://gopher.ag.uiuc.edu/aim/marsha.html marsha-w@uiuc.edu / mwoodbury@cpsr.org ```

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