NASA has substantial programs in educational outreach that will accelerate the utilization of an NII by the education community. A prime example of this is the Spacelink repository on the Internet for teachers and students that currently has almost 30,000 active user accounts.The impact and outreach of resources such as Spacelink will be enhanced under NASA’s IITA program.
Predictor: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Task Group: High-Performance Computing and Communications Information Technology Subcommittee
Prediction, in context:In a final draft of their Dec. 1, 1993, recommendations for the National Information Infrastructure, members of the High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology subcommittee write the following: ”NASA’s IITA program will demonstrate the potential for government-industry partnerships in cooperative development efforts within a National Information Infrastructure. Finally, NASA has substantial programs in educational outreach that will accelerate the utilization of an NII by the education community. A prime example of this is the Spacelink repository on the Internet for teachers and students that currently has almost 30,000 active user accounts.The impact and outreach of resources such as Spacelink will be enhanced under NASA’s IITA program.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications - Report of the IITA Task Group: High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology Subcommittee
Title, headline, chapter name: Appendix A: Relationship of Agency Missions to IITA
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/us/iita.txt
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney