roundtable: OTA Closes Doors

roundtable: OTA Closes Doors

OTA Closes Doors

Wood, Fred (fwood@itc.ota.gov)
Thu, 28 Sep 95 22:18:00 PDT 

From: "Wood, Fred" <fwood@itc.ota.gov>
To: Telecom Policy Roundtable <roundtable@cni.org>
Subject: OTA Closes Doors
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 22:18:00 PDT
Message-Id: <306C882F@mailserver.ota.gov>


Many of you know by now, but just in case, FYI the OTA is going out 
of business at the end of fiscal year 1995--meaning tomorrow.  A 
skeleton administrative crew will remain for four months to close 
down the facility; all analytical staff must vacate by cob tomorrow 
(e-mail and voice mail will be forwarded for one month).  All new and 
recent OTA reports will continue to be available electronically via 
OTAOnline, www: http://www.ota.gov, for several months or more, and 
hard copy publications will be sold by GPO, 202-512-1800, while 
supplies last, and by NTIS in perpetuity.  Also, in several months, 
GPO will issue a CD-ROM with the entire works of OTA.  The complete 
works of OTA will be available at several university and depository 
libraries.  Some OTA staff, under the leadership of Vary Coates, are 
attempting to set up a privatized, downsized Institute for Technology 
Assessment or the equivalent.  My latest and apparently last OTA 
report, "Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans: 
Opportunities and Challenges," was released in late August and is 
available via OTAOnline and in paper format from GPO.  Starting 
October 1, I can be reached by phone at 703-524-0872, and by Internet 
at either fbwood@aol.com or fwood@igc.apc.org.  Thanks very much to 
all of you and your colleagues for your interest in and support of 
OTA over the years.  Best wishes and may our paths cross again in the 
not too distant future.  May we all live long and prosper!  --Fred.


Fred Wood
<fwood@itc.ota.gov>

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