roundtable: What's Going on in Industry

roundtable: What's Going on in Industry

What's Going on in Industry

Benton Foundation (benton@periplum.cdinet.com)
Tue, 6 Jun 1995 18:39:23 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 18:39:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benton Foundation <benton@periplum.cdinet.com>
To: benton-compolicy@periplum.cdinet.com
Subject: What's Going on in Industry
Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950606183151.7011A-100000@periplum.cdinet.com>


June 6, 1995

Washington DC ---

We believe you will be interested in "What's Going on in Industry," the
latest report from the Benton Foundation's Communications Policy
Project.

"Promise and Performance: Industry's Vision for the Information
Superhighway" looks at what leaders in the telecommunications industry
are saying about the National Information Infrastructure, and how their
plans and claims will affect key public interest values. Benton
commissioned this report to serve as a starting point for discussion,
and welcomes your comments in our online forum. 

Also new is a side-by-side analysis of pending telecommunications
legislation in Congress. Benton compares key provisions that may have
significant implications for noncommercial users and those interested
in the passage of policy that is truly in the public interest.

Both documents are in the "What's Going on" section of our World Wide
Web and Gopher servers (http://cdinet.com/benton/goingon)

To receive regular updates about new alerts, briefings, or other news
from the Communications Policy Project, sign up for our new Internet
mailing list by sending email to benton-request. In the body of the
message, write "subscribe benton-compolicy."

Those of you who have not visited the site in the last few weeks may
notice some other recent additions and changes:

Our new "Cyber pages" are an annotated guide of pointers to a variety
of useful resources on the Net. 

Our forum has been expanded so that you can post comments in our
ongoing conversation about policy issues and developments related to
the NII. The state of the information infrastructure and industry
action is the new topic of discussion.

An expanded home page for the Benton Foundation contains links to its
media and children's projects.

Getting around, How to use this Site, and About this Site have been
added to make it easier for our visitors to navigate, see what's new on
the site, and learn more about Benton Foundation and its other
projects.

Recently released publications include Briefing 4: Telecommuni- cations
and Democracy;Working Paper 4: Recovering Network Subsidies Without
Distortion; and Working Paper 8: Issues in Telecommunications and
Democracy.

We hope these changes will make it easier to exchange information about
communications policy as it develops. We look forward to hearing from
you in our ongoing dialogue about the nation's emerging information
infrastructure.

Regards,

Andrew Blau
Director
Communications Policy Project
Benton Foundation
1634 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel 202 638 5770
Fax 202 638 5771
Email: benton@benton.org

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