Mandate online access to government information; allow the private sectors to add value and resell it. Make all federal agencies accessible to the public via e-mail. Foster programs to support telecommuting and shared scientific databases. Encourage the deployment of Integrated Services Digital Network-based services. Avoid the creation of gaps between the information-rich and -poor. Do not subsidize network service providers; subsidize users where appropriate. Find a way to make advertising permissible and useful in the National Information Infrastructure.
Predictor: Cerf, Vinton G.
Prediction, in context:In an article in Computerworld, writer Gary H. Anthes quotes Vinton G. Cerf. Anthes writes: ”When Internet Society President Vinton G. Cerf was asked to testify at a congressional hearing on the Clinton administration’s proposed National Information Infrastructure, he sought advice from 150,000 colleagues. He polled the Internet and got replies from 600 individuals in a dozen countries, and the replies formed the basis for 18 recommendations to lawmakers on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee … Here is a summary of Cerf’s recommendations to Uncle Sam, by way of the Internet: Invest in the development of pre-competitive information technology and standards. Ease restrictions on the export of encryption technology. Make Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol co-equal with Open Systems Interconnect in the Government Open Systems Interconnect Profile specifications. Support connection of libraries and museums to the Internet. Set up programs to train secondary schoolteachers in information technology. Foster the development of educational software. Mandate online access to government information; allow the private sectors to add value and resell it. Make all federal agencies accessible to the public via e-mail. Foster programs to support telecommuting and shared scientific databases. Encourage the deployment of Integrated Services Digital Network-based services. Avoid the creation of gaps between the information-rich and -poor. Do not subsidize network service providers; subsidize users where appropriate. Find a way to make advertising permissible and useful in the National Information Infrastructure.”
Date of prediction: April 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Computerworld
Title, headline, chapter name: Digital Democracy
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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