roundtable: New Book on NII-GII

roundtable: New Book on NII/GII

New Book on NII/GII

William Drake (wdrake@weber.ucsd.edu)
Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:28:37 -0700 (PDT) 

Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:28:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: William Drake <wdrake@weber.ucsd.edu>
Message-Id: <199509290328.UAA19511@weber.ucsd.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: New Book on NII/GII


----------Book Announcement----------
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THE NEW INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE:
STRATEGIES FOR U.S. POLICY
                                       
William J. Drake, editor
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego

A Twentieth Century Fund Book

448 pages, publication date September 1995

In this volume, communications and information analysts address some of 
the major policy issues involved in the development of the National 
Information Infrastructure (NII) and the Global Information 
Infrastructure (GII).  For example:

*Will the NII be designed primarily to serve the demands of 
   major corporate suppliers and customers? Or will it be flexibly
   configured so that small businesses, nonprofit organizations,
   individual users, and others can draw on networked information
   resources with the same ease as in the Internet environment?
   Should the NII be governed by a purely commercial policy model or
   by a mixed commercial/noncommercial policy model?

*What sort of balance should be struck between deregulation
   and public interest safeguards?  Is removing barriers to market entry
   and other rules sufficient to promote a truly competitive
   and open NII, or are other measures required?  Are the Clinton
   administration or the Republican-led U.S. Congress on the right track?

*As the boundaries between national economies erode with the
   spread of global networks, trade, and investment, how can
   countries move beyond separately defined and potentially
   incompatible NIIs to the development of a publicly accessible and
   fully interoperable GII ?  Can different national approaches be
   reconciled?  Are existing multilateral institutions adequate to the task
   of global governance in such arenas as telecommunications regulation
   and standardization, transborder information flows, and international
   trade in services?


----TABLE OF CONTENTS---
[an annotated version describing the chapters can be 
found at http://communication.ucsd.edu/wdrake/fundbook.html]


Introduction.  "The Turning Point"
---William J. Drake, University of California, San Diego

PART I. THE NEW POLICY ENVIRONMENT

Ch. 1.  "Beyond Telecommunications Liberalization: Past Performance,
              Present Hype, and Future Direction"
---Eli M. Noam, Columbia University

Ch. 2."Information Infrastructure and the Transformation of
           Manufacturing"
---Francois Bar, University of California, San Diego

Ch. 3.  "The Globalization of Telecommunications and Information"
---Linda Garcia, U.S. Office of Technology Assessment

Appendix.  "Telecommunications Technology for the Twenty-first
                       Century"
---Richard J. Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PART II.  POLICIES FOR THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
  
Ch. 4.  "Reforming the U.S. Telecommunications Policymaking
              Process"
---Henry Geller, The Markle Foundation

Ch. 5.  "Technology Policy and the National Information Infrastructure"
---Lee McKnight, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
---W. Russell Neuman, Tufts University

Ch. 6.  "The Social Consequences of Liberalization and Corporate
              Control in Telecommunications"
---Herbert S. Dordick, University of California, San Diego

PART  III. POLICIES FOR THE GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
  
Ch. 7.  "Building the Global Information Highway:  Toll Booths,
              Construction Contracts, and Rules of the Road"
---Peter F. Cowhey, University of California, San Diego

Ch. 8.  "Why the Global Village Cannot Afford Information Slums"
---Bruno Lanvin, United Nations Conference on Trade and
    Development

Ch. 9.  "Multilateral Cooperation in Telecommunications:
              Implications of the Great Transformation"
---Anthony M. Rutkowski, The Internet Society

Ch. 10.  "Information Flows on the Global Infobahn: 
                Toward New U.S. Policies"
---Joel R. Reidenberg, Fordham University

Ch. 11.  "International Trade in Information-based Services: 
                The Uruguay Round and Beyond"
---Kalypso Nicolaidis, Harvard University

PART IV. OUTLOOK AND CONCLUSION

Ch. 12.  "The National Information Infrastructure Debate: 
                 Issues, Interests, and the Congressional Process"
---William J. Drake, University of California, San Diego

Conclusion.  "Policies for the National and Global Information
                          Infrastructures"
---William J. Drake, University of California, San Diego

__________________________________________________
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by Edward A. Filene. 

The New Information Infrastructure: Strategies for U.S. Policy,
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