Spring 1996 Meeting of the Coalition Task Force
Meeting Call
SPRING 1996 MEETING OF THE TASK FORCE
March 25-26, 1996
Renaissance Washington D.C. Hotel
999 9th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-9000
202-898-9000 (voice)
202-789-4213 (fax)
From: Paul Evan Peters <paul@cni.org>
Subject: Momentum building toward Spring Task Force Meeting in DC on 3/25-6
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:52:26 -0500 (EST)
Momentum is building toward the Spring 1996 Task Force
Meeting on March 25 and 26 at the Renaissance Washington
D.C. Hotel, and I am really excited about how the meeting is
shaping up.
The deadline for submitting pink Project Briefing Forms has
been extended until this upcoming Friday February 16, and
the deadline for returning white Registration Forms is
coming up on next Thursday February 22.
The deadline for making hotel reservations is also next
Thursday February 22. If there is any chance of you
attending this meeting then I suggest that you make a hotel
reservation by this date.
All you have to do to make a hotel reservation is to call
the Renaissance at 202-898-9000 and say that you will be
attending the CNI meeting. You can always cancel your
reservation at a later date.
We will post the Preliminary Agenda for the Meeting to our
Website next week as soon as we finish analyzing and
organizing the Project Briefing Forms, especially those that
come in on this Friday.
In the meantime, I thought you would like to have an early
look at how the plenary sessions for the Meeting have shaped
up.
- Monday March 25 from 1 to 2:45 p.m. -- John S.
Quarterman, Secretary and Editor for Matrix Information
and Directory Services, will share his conception and
measurements of the current rapidly evolving Global
Information Infrastructure and its user population, and
Gary A. Puckrein, President of the American Visions
Society, will discuss his views on the positive potential
of the Internet in particular and the information highway
in general for African-Americans.
- Tuesday March 26 from 9 to 10 a.m. -- Robert Weber,
Senior Vice President for Electronic Publishing
Resources, will provide an overview of the rapidly
developing networked intellectual property rights
management scene, and Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law at
the Washington College of Law of American University,
will present his views on the equally rapidly developing
networked intellectual property public policy scene.
- Tuesday March 26 from 2:30 to 3:30p -- Karen R.
Hitchcock, Interim President of the University at Albany
of the State University of New York, will share her views
on higher education cultural transformations occasioned
by the spread of networks and networked information, with
particular attention to the implications for faculty
development priorities and programs.
In addition to the plenary sessions:
- There will be an orientation for first-time meeting
attendees, and other interested parties, at 11:30 a.m. on
Monday March 25;
- I will open the Meeting with some general remarks on the
first six (!?) years of CNI and, in the parlance of the
year, on "the road ahead" for CNI at 1 p.m. on Monday
March 25; and,
- There will be small group sessions that follow-up on the
remarks of each of the plenary session speakers,
including a total of five separate small group sessions
to follow-up on various aspects of the remarks on
networked intellectual property rights management by Bob
Weber.
I hope this message conveys a sense of the excitement I feel
about how well the Spring 1996 Task Force Meeting is shaping
up. I hope that you will be able to join us at the
Renaissance Washington D.C. Hotel on March 25 and 26.
Let me know if you need any help from me. Joan Lippincott
<joan@cni.org> will be happy to help you with any questions
or concerns you might have about project briefings, and
Jackie Eudell <jackie@cni.org> will be happy to help with
your hotel and other logistics.
Best,
Paul
Paul Evan Peters
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle
Washington, DC 20036
Voice: 202-296-5098
Fax: 202-872-0884
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