public access Achive

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

From: James Keller - Kennedy School of Government
<keller@ksgbbs.harvard.edu>    
Subject: Public Access Archive




              -- -- Announcement  -- --

Draft papers and proceedings from the recent Public 
Access to the Internet Symposium, held at the Kennedy 
School of Government on May 25 and 26, are now 
available via gopher and anonymous ftp.  Issues areas 
considered at the Symposium and in the working papers 
included:

The Policy Environment for the Public Internet; 
Strategic Environment for Digital Networking; Meeting 
the Challenges of Business and Public End-User; 
Communities on the Internet; Network Analysis Issues 
for a Public Internet; Economics of Computer Networks; 
Service Models and Pricing Policies for an Integrated 
Services Internet; Pricing the Internet; The Economic 
Case for Public Subsidy of the Internet; Community 
Networks; Big Sky Telegraph: A Rural Cooperative; 
Models of Community Electronic Networks; The Role of 
Public Libraries in Providing Access; Network 
Communities; Networking the Nations: American Indians, 
Information Policy & Cultural Values; Opportunities & 
Barriers with RBOC Access to Internet Expansion:  The 
PacBell Knowledge Network as a Case Study; Use of the 
Internet in Non-profit Enterprise; The Internet and 
the Poor; The Emerging Market for Internet Services; 
Commercial Services and the Internet; Models for the 
Internet Local Loop; The Other Half; and, Social 
Impact of the Internet.

The archive is intended to provide broad disemination 
of the workshop procedings and to solicit editorial 
input for final publication by the Primis division of 
McGraw Hill, publisher of Building Information 
Infrastructure, ed. Brian Kahin.
        
The archives are available from the machine 
nic.merit.edu via both gopher and anonymous ftp.  For 
gopher access, point your client at the machine 
nic.merit.edu (port 70), and select the "Conference
Proceedings" item.  For access via ftp, use the userid 
"anonymous" and the password "guest".  The proceedings 
are located in the directory "conference.proceedings".

The Symposium was made possible by a grant from the 
John and Mary R. Markle Foundation.

James Keller
Project Coordinator
Information Infrastructure Project
Center for Science and International Affairs
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA  02138

kellerj@ksg1.harvard.edu