roundtable: Live from the Summit - Report # 6

roundtable: Live from the Summit - Report # 6

Live from the Summit - Report # 6

Lisa Kimball (lisa@tmn.com)
Tue, 29 Mar 94 17:17:37 EST 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 17:17:37 EST
From: lisa@tmn.com (Lisa Kimball)
Message-Id: <9403292217.AA12114@tmn.com>
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Subject: Live from the Summit - Report # 6


Live from the Summit - Report # 6

  The third panel is now assembled on stage.  This panel is
focused on "Building Communities and the Economy."  Members
of this panel include:

     Cushing Dolbeare, Low-Income Housing Coalition
     Randy Ross, American Indian Telecommunications
     Thomas Kalil, National Economic Council for
                   Science and Technology
     Anthony Pharr, United Church of Christ
     Morton Bahr, Communications Workers of America
     Diana Roose, National Association of Working Women

  The moderator of this panel is Linda Tarr-Whelan, Center
for Policy Alternatives.

  After brief introductory statements by each panelist, the
discussion centered on the relationship of the NII and the
need for more and better jobs.

  The NII needs to be used directly in support of policy
development.  We should use the technology that exists now
in order to do the kind of planning needed to make sure
the new technologies produce advances in our national
economy.

  Randy Ross stressed that the majority of jobs on reservations
at the present time are in fact federal jobs.

  Diana Roose asserted that our goal must be to create better
jobs, not just more jobs.  We do NOT need electronic sweatshops.

  Morton Bahr pointed out that the new technologies will permit
people to live and work anywhere -- but that also means that
some of the new jobs will actually exist in other countries.

  Tony Pharr, in a response to a question from the floor, said
that advertising and pay-for-use are NOT the only way that the
costs of the NII will be covered.  Other sounces must be found.

  Diana Roose pointed out that the increase in the number of
telecommuters has a down side -- and mentioned the example of
the medical records stranscriber who was told that she would
HAVE to begin working from home.

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