roundtable: 11-16 meeting to start policy study on rural access

roundtable: 11/16 meeting to start policy study on rural access

11/16 meeting to start policy study on rural access

Bwright@aol.com
Thu, 9 Nov 1995 16:23:25 -0500 

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 16:23:25 -0500
From: Bwright@aol.com
Message-Id: <951109162324_102406012@emout05.mail.aol.com>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: 11/16 meeting to start policy study on rural access


11/9/95

To:        Colleagues concerned about affordable *rural* access to the NII
From:      Bill Wright, CoSN & ITC
Subj:      Meeting at NEA Press room on Thur, Nov 16; ideas for policy study

We may have spoken to you about a meeting next week.  We want your ideas
about how rural American can have affordable access to the Internet and
advanced telecommunications.  This is a reminder and a little more
information.

Time and place:

Thursday, Nov 16, 2-4pm
National Education Association (NEA)
Press Room (1st floor, behind cafeteria) 
1201 16th St. NW
 
With support from NSF, I will take the lead in a policy study that will 
help state and local policymakers learn how they can help make access to 
advanced telecommunications services more affordable in rural areas.  I 
will work with a grantee community (NIE, RSI, NTIA, Annenberg) and -- 
with the help of an advisory committee -- build an online resource (Web 
site) that will give policymakers models for creative funding mechanisms, 
universal service mechanisms, and strategies for encouraging and 
sustaining rural community networks.  I also want to point to significant 
models, such as the Mendocino Community Network and some of the NTIA, NSF, 
and Annenberg projects.  Right now I need your ideas about directions we 
might take.  I hope you can also help suggest others we should talk to.

At the meeting a week from today, we will hear about state telecom dereg
(such as the Texas bill) from Laurie Itkin, National Conference on State
Legislatures.  We should have an update on the Snowe-Rockefeller provision 
in the federal telecom dereg bill.  More importantly, we want to hear from 
you about significant models and policy ideas that make sense.

International Telecomputing Consortium (ITC),  Organizations Concerned 
about Rural Education (OCRE),  and Consortium for School Networking 
(CoSN) will have key roles in this project.  We want to talk to and 
link to many other groups.

To confirm or get more information, please call Bill Wright at (202)
466-0533 or leave a message with Nancy Hall (202) 466-0533, ext 315.

Bill Wright
<bwright@aol.com>

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