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Oregon Coast Rural Information Service Cooperative

``` Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 15:27:21 -0700 From: dmitchel@ednet1.osl.or.gov (Dave W Mitchell)

OREGON COAST RURAL INFORMATION SERVICE COOPERATIVE P.O. Box 851, Waldport OR 97394 (503) 563-4159 A working group centered in Lincoln County and comprising a variety of individuals, businesses, and organizations is undertaking formation of the Oregon Coast Rural Information Service Cooperative. The Cooperative is intended to be an alliance of information resource and service providers and information consumers working in concert to overcome some of the factors responsible for rural isolation. The urban business or individual has low-cost or free access to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of persons, a wealth of archived data, and manifold streams of ongoing communication. The rural resident is fortunate to be capable of reaching a few thousand individuals, and the bulk of available information lies on the other side of the telephone tariff barrier or the cost wall of commercial providers. Moreover, rural organizations, be they businesses, public service groups, or educational entities, cannot procure services in bulk. An urban "small" business, with hundreds of employees, can purchase a single multiuser license for an expensive package of computer programs vital to its activities; the typical rural small business can only have affordable access to such software by generating a multiuser base through cooperation with other entities to distribute the cost. It is our hope that we can unite the entire central Oregon Coast into a single information procurement and distribution cooperative embracing all segments of the community: business, the educational system, public service and public interest groups, the retired population, and, in general, residents wishing to make use of the vast resources that now exist. To that end, we are soliciting public input on co-op organization, data distribution means, forms of information to be made available, data transfer modes (real-time and BBS-buffered), and access mechanisms. Some proposals now under consideration include: centralized access to commercial software (with technical support); a clearinghouse for data procurement from databases and information network sources (attempting to find multiple consumers for similar data types to reduce search and information costs) and for dissemination of locally generated information; a network of local bulletin board systems with the ability to archive frequently used information and provide doorways to useful programs and services (e.g., map generation facilities). We need the views and suggestions of all interested coastal entities and residents. Please submit them to OCRISC at the above address, or call me at 563-4159. Thank you, Dave Mitchell Acting Executive

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Dave W. Mitchell Waldport, Oregon Oregon Coast Rural Information Service Cooperative "A bit off the superhighway" ```

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