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Private and Public Roles - Theme 4
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http://www.iaginteractive.com/emfa/theme4.htm
Check out the extensive web links listed after the questions.
The primary theme for Wednesday, May 13 and Thursday,
May 14, 1998.
The Internet is fundamentally changing how we experience the
world. It is as much a technical and social phenomenon as it
is an economic and political sea change. Institutions',
groups', and individuals' demand for Internet connectivity,
information, and applications are being supplied by an array
of providers. We increasingly find ourselves as both
producers and users on the Internet.
The growth of the network through open standards has placed
us on the same "online stage," but the script has yet to be
written. Internet governance battles and different views of
what makes the Internet "work" become more complicated and
heated daily. The "Private and Public Roles" theme places
important issues on the table for further consideration.
Please send your questions and comments to:
emfa@publicus.net
Those submitted by early Thursday will be sent out before the
close of the event.
1. How will private sector competition connect more people
to the Internet? It is argued that the value of the
Internet grows as each additional person is connected.
Will electronic commerce and advertising make basic
Internet connectivity a free or nearly free commodity?
To whom? And for how long? Or will the cost of home
access remain an increasingly powerful computer and
evolve from a monthly flat-rate toward measured fees?
2. The "intranet" resulted from largely corporate
information infrastructure needs. What can we learn from the
"intranet experience" that can be leveraged for a broader
social/economic application beyond institutions? What might
an "intranet" for local non-profits, a neighborhood, or a
city look like? Universities are some of the most "wired"
places on earth; with the present U.S. governmental support
for Internet2, will their role broaden access toa faster
and more universal Internet?
3. Setting regulation of the Internet aside, governmental
organizations at local, state, national, and supra-national
levels contribute to the Internet through connectivity, content,
and services. In some cases, like U.S. federal support, they
provide extensive funding for advanced R & D. Should
different levels of government support "public goods" on the
Internet? Which ones? Where should they obtain their
resources? Should governments' own Internet needs be
leveraged for broader community connectivity?
4. Internet standards processes are both difficult to
explain and increasingly important. How do these processes
work? How do standards groups like the World-Wide-Web
Consortium and the Internet Engineering Task Force
decide which technical challenges need to be met? How
can one influence these process? Are economic, social,
and political factors affecting these processes today?
Which emerging standards will have the most fundamental
impact on Internet users and producers?
Articles and Reports
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For active links see: http://www.iaginteractive.com/emfa/theme4.htm
* U.S. Government Electronic Commerce Policy - Access to
reports.
* Internet Stanards - Background from the Internet
Society's All About the Internet.
* The Last Mile - Papers for a course at NYU.
* CNET special feature: Ten Net laws - Interesting
article and poll on Internet policy issues.
* Good Intentions: the Effects of Telecoms Pricing
Policies on the European Internet - EuroISPA.
* Government Related IT Reports - From OECD.
* Kellogg Graduate School of Management - Computer
Industry working papers, particularly Universal Service in
the Digital Age: The Commericalization and Geography of US
Internet access.
News Stories
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* The Constitutional Convention of the Internet: the IETF
- Web Review.
* U.S. Appears Likely To Pass On Major Domain Decisions -
CMP TechWeb.
* White House's Magaziner says Internet should stay
unregulated - InfoWorld Electric.
* Magaziner: Industry Efforts To Protect Online Privacy
Falling Short - Inter@ctive Week.
* Online privacy rules proposed to ease threat to
e-commerce - AdvertisingAge.
* Internet 2: Can the commercial Net benefit? -
Inter@ctive Week Online.
Online Resources
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* Telecom Information Resources on the Internet - The
motherlode from the University of Michigan.
* U.S. Congressional Internet Caucus.
* Internet Society and the Internet Engineering Task
Force.
* World Wide Web Consortium - W3C.
* ISP Organizations - From the Commercial Internet Exchange.
* Harvard Information Infrastructure Project.
* Virtual Institute of Information - From the Columbia
Institute for Tele-Information.
* Internet2 - Higher Education.
* Next Generation Internet Initiative - U.S. Federal
Government.
* Internet Law and Policy Forum - University of
Washington.
* National Science Foundation's Directorate
for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
* Libraries for the Future Telecommunications Advocacy
Project.
* Open Source - Internet technical cultures and software
development.
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