roundtable: "Cyberspace Society" -- What about APC.IGC?
roundtable: "Cyberspace Society" -- What about APC.IGC?
"Cyberspace Society" -- What about APC.IGC?
hkklein@MIT.EDU
Mon, 17 Apr 1995 20:02:01 EDT
From: hkklein@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9504180002.AA00321@marinara.MIT.EDU>
To: Telecomm Policy Roundtable - Northeast <TPR-NE@mitvma.mit.edu>,
Subject: "Cyberspace Society" -- What about APC.IGC?
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 20:02:01 EDT
I applaud your activities. However, as far as I can see, such an
activity is already up and running. The Institute for Global
Communications (IGC) and the Association for Progressive Communications
(APC) seem to be existing forces in progressive world politics via
cyberspace.
I suggest that Vigdor, Richard, and Curtiss talk to those folks.
Also, if anyone from IGC or APC has detailed background information
on their activities, I would certainly appreciate a list of references
(I know that Howard Frederick has done some excellent work in this area.)
What makes IGC/APC so impressive to me is that they seem to generate
as many actions as words. Let that be a lesson to us all!
- Hans Klein
<hkklein@mit.edu>
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