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panel about grassroots NII work -- organize one in your area
``` Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 10:47:06 EST From: hkklein@MIT.EDU Subject: TPR-NE: Up-Coming Forum on Grassroots NII
For people in the Boston area, this forum is an opportunity to learn about issues and activism bringing groups together in TPR-Northeast. For people elsewhere in the country, this kind of forum is interesting, easy to organize, and promotes grassroots participation.
-- Hans Klein CPSR/Boston
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TELEDEMOCRACY and UNIVERSAL SERVICE Info Superhighway Priorities and Public Participation in the Policymaking Process. First in series of public forums on Directions for the National Information Infrastructure. Sponsored by The Telecommunications Policy Roundtable N. E. Wednesday, November 16, 1994, 7-9pm Emerson College Student Union 96 Beacon St, Boston, Mass. How will decisions be made regarding the direction of the communications infrastructure for the next century? What will the priorities be for establishing this new network? Should government take a hands-off position and let the market determine the direction? Or should we insure that all citizens have some minimum access to the tools of the next communications revolution? To address these questions the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable N.E. has assembled a panel reflecting a broad range of opinion on the issue of public participation in the development of the National Information Infrastructure. The panel will include representatives of the telecommunications industry, the community computers movement, and non profit educational and public interest organizations, as well as specialists in the design of electronic networks that assist in community building and citizen participation in public policy-making. Panelists include: Stan Kugell, Vice President, Pilgrim Telephone, Inc. Miles Fidelman, Director, Center For Civic Networking Eric Loeb, Network designer, Artificial Inteligence Lab, MIT Howard Frederick, Professor of Mass Communications, Emerson Kate Snow, Director, Somerville Community Computing Center Allen Shaw, Developer of Community Networks, Media Lab, MIT For more information, contact the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable N.E. through: Paul Johnson Coralee Whitcomb pjbrady@delphi.com cwhitcom@bentley.edu phone (508) 653-5987 Emerson Student Union is at 96 Beacon St., Boston, on the northwest corner of Boston Public Garden--4 blocks north of the Arlington stop on the Green Line. ```
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