roundtable: Update: The Public Interest Summit

roundtable: Update: The Public Interest Summit

Update: The Public Interest Summit

Andrew Blau (benton@clark.net)
Mon, 28 Feb 1994 22:17:39 -0500 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 22:17:39 -0500
Message-Id: <199403010317.WAA25729@clark.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: Andrew Blau <benton@clark.net>
Subject:  Update:  The Public Interest Summit

Friends:

We have a date:  March 29, 1994

We have a place:  The Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

We have a commitment from the Vice-President to appear as a keynote speaker.

We are nailing down commitments from other speakers.

We have invitations going out tomorrow.

We are investigating ways to link the event to the net to report on what 
is happening and to take questions from more than only those who can get 
to Washington D.C.

We have begun the contacts needed to arrange for broadcasting the events 
in both video and radio formats.

We have interest from Carl Malmud in making the day's events available as
an Internet Talk Radio set of sessions.

We are talking to library, public access, and other groups to make sure
that the event becomes an organizing/education tool that can be used to
stimulate discussion in local settings around the country, either
simultaneously or as follow-up events.

The entire planning group (listed below) -- with the help of many, many
others who made scores of valuable suggestions -- has contributed a great
deal to getting it this far.

More news as it develops.

-Andrew

           -- Program Committee --

Prue Adler, Association of Research Libraries
Gary Bass/Patrice McDermott, OMB Watch
Jerry Berman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Andrew Blau, Benton Foundation
Jeff Chester, Center for Media Education
Richard Civille, Center for Civic Networking
Bob Gillespie, Higher Education and Library
        Consortium for Information Infrastructure Policy
Janlori Goldman, American Civil Liberties Union
Tony Lewis, Alliance for Community Media
Paul Schroeder, American Council of the Blind
Brad Stillman, Consumer Federation of America

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Andrew Blau
Communications Policy Project
Benton Foundation
1634 Eye St., N.W., 12th Fl.
Washington, DC  20006

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