roundtable: Re: Gore Calls for GII

roundtable: Re: Gore Calls for GII

Re: Gore Calls for GII

Thomas Ho Inn Min (tho@iscs.nus.sg)
Fri, 25 Mar 1994 10:21:41 +0800 (WST) 

From: Thomas Ho Inn Min <tho@iscs.nus.sg>
Message-Id: <199403250221.KAA23169@elc1s.iscs.nus.sg>
Subject: Re: Gore Calls for GII
To: roundtable@cni.org
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 10:21:41 +0800 (WST)
In-Reply-To: <199403240312.TAA26929@igc.apc.org> from "Howard Frederick" at Mar 24, 94 01:05:52 pm


A copy of Gore's speech can be found on the Voice of America gopher at URL:

gopher://ftp.VOA.GOV:70 +/00/pub/documents/gore-global-information

ITU also has press releases about this on their gopher at URL:

gopher://info.itu.ch:70/


> U.S. CHALLENGES WORLD TO BUILD ``NETWORK OF NETWORKS" 
> 
>     BUENOS AIRES (Reuter) - The United States urged countries to build a
> ``network of networks" that could pump billions of dollars into the global
> economy by linking computers in homes, schools and offices around the world. 
>     Vice President Al Gore Monday told a U.N.-sponsored conference on
> telecommunications development that the world has the financial and technical
> resources to spin such a web, which he baptized a Global Information
> Infrastructure (GII). 
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