roundtable: Release of Rural Information Infrastructure Report

roundtable: Release of Rural Information Infrastructure Report

Release of Rural Information Infrastructure Report

DGARDNER@ntia.doc.gov
Mon, 09 Oct 1995 11:24:32 -0400 

Message-Id: <s07906bd.021@ntia.doc.gov>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 11:24:32 -0400
From: DGARDNER@ntia.doc.gov
To: roundtable@cni.org, ace-mg@esusda.gov
Subject:  Release of Rural Information Infrastructure Report


Thought you all might be interested in the release of this report to help
rural information infrastructure planners.

David Gardner
NTIA
(202) 482-5893
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For Immediate Release:						   
Contact:  Paige Darden
October 6, 1995								
202-482-1551

                          *****MEDIA ADVISORY*****

     SECRETARY OF COMMERCE RONALD H. BROWN TO HOLD
BRIEFING TO DISCUSS REPORT: SURVEY OF RURAL INFORMATION
INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGIES

WASHINGTON, DC -- Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown will
discuss a report titled, Survey of Rural Information Infrastructure
Technologies on Thursday, October 12, 1995 at 11:00 a.m. EST in
Room 6808 of the Department of Commerce, 14th and
Constitution, NW, Washington, DC.  (Use main entrance on 14th
Street.)  Please RSVP to Sandra Stewart at (202) 482-2408 by
Wednesday, October 11.  If you are unable to attend the briefing
and would like to participate via conference call (space is
limited), please call Paige Darden, NTIA Public Affairs, at (202)
482-1551.

     The report, which was authored by the Commerce Department's
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), is a
valuable resource for rural Federal, state, and local telecommunications
policy makers as well as providers and users of telecommunication
services, including schools, libraries, health care organizations,
businesses, local governments, and citizens.  It describes the
technologies that can be used to deploy an information infrastructure in
rural areas.

     "The report will be particularly useful to State and local officials
involved in planning information infrastructures in rural areas and helping
their communities to realize the benefits or the Information Age," said
Larry Irving, assistant secretary of Commerce for Communications and
Information and administrator of NTIA.  "To reach our potential as
communities and as individuals, it is becoming increasingly important that
we have affordable access to information and telecommunications
services," said Irving.

     The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and
Information Administration serves as the principal advisor to the
President, Vice President and Secretary of Commerce on domestic and
international communications and information issues.

     The report is already available on the Internet: 
http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov and ftp.its.bldrdoc.gov.  To have a copy
mailed to you, please call (202) 482-3999.

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