More demographic balance in the online world is crucial … WIRE will help seed the world network with Net-savvy females and bring the electronic community more in balance with real-world demographics.
Predictor: Figallo, Cliff
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 Business Wire article, Cliff Figallo is quotes commenting about WIRE, Women’s Information Resource & Exchange, the first national computer network for women. The article says: ”‘More demographic balance in the online world is crucial,’ commented Cliff Figallo, online communications coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and former general manager of the Well. ‘WIRE is providing a vital information clearinghouse and an easy-to-use networked meeting place for the half of our population that has, until now, been vastly underrepresented and underserved in the online world. By offering a safe and welcoming haven where women can assemble and learn, WIRE will help seed the world network with Net-savvy females and bring the electronic community more in balance with real-world demographics.”
Biography:Cliff Figallo, was managing director of the WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link, one of the best known conferencing systems and virtual communities in the United States in the 1990s) and a director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cambridge office in the early 1990s. He later worked with Pandora Systems. Figallo and John Coate are regarded to be the chief architects of the WELL’s implementation of virtual community. (Advocate/Voice of the People.)
Date of prediction: October 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Digital Divide
Name of publication: Business Wire
Title, headline, chapter name: WIRE: Women’s Information Resource & Exchange Opens Online Doors
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=9fe209b1e4ee5d8f8e8d81d9a6453f3e&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlb-lSlAl&_md5=6f4db16c89aebae3c604b1105fabecf0
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