roundtable: Re: "Cyberspace Society" -- What about APC.IGC?

roundtable: Re: "Cyberspace Society" -- What about APC.IGC?

Re: "Cyberspace Society" -- What about APC.IGC?

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:55:07 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:55:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: "Cyberspace Society" -- What about APC.IGC?
In-Reply-To: <9504180002.AA00321@marinara.MIT.EDU>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950418113446.22726B-100000@access1.digex.net>


On Tue, 18 Apr 1995 hkklein@MIT.EDU wrote:
> 
> 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.

  The IGC and APC are well known, but neither they nor any other 
organization exists that has the knowledge and will to proceed with 
the program that the "Cyberspace Society" has articulated.  

...
> 
> 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!

  We remain unimpressed.  The global people, as well as the American
people remain without any coherent plan for the future, nor even any
credible dialogue on the subject.  The only group that has articulated 
a coherent plan is the telco industry, based on narrow self-interest.  I
have seen no alternative offered by the IGC and APC or anyone else, nor
any competent ongoing process toward that end.  Certainly, governments 
both domestic and foreign have provided no competent leadership in this 
respect, other than to advance the goals of the woild-be industry Robber 
Barons.

  Finally, it appears to me that there will be many answers to the needs
of our time with regard to planning for the information infrastructure. 
The response of the "Cyberspace Society" fueled by the knowledge and
commitment of ordinary citizens will be among those.  This is our mission. 

  Vigdor Schreibman
  <fins@access.digex.net>

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