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Tingay, Michael – 1988
Participants in the Aspen Institute Conference considered how communications technologies may be applied to serve the needs and interests of this country's expanding community of retired and older citizens. Conference findings fell into two categories, reflecting questions originating in the human aspirations found in a public opinion survey…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Attitudes, Information Needs, Information Services
Download full textEntman, Robert M. – 1998
The topic of the 1997 Conference, "Competition, Innovation, and Investment in Telecommunications," reflects one of the important areas for concern in the telecommunications community. Representatives of telecommunications carriers, cable industries, consumer, academic, and regulatory bodies at the federal, state, and local levels, worked together…
Descriptors: Competition, Conferences, Costs, Federal Regulation
International Telecommunication Union, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1995
The African Regional Symposium on Telematics for Development was organized in view of the special educational and communication needs of Africa in a time of accelerating change and development of information technologies. The symposium brought together more than 150 African specialists, and over 40 participants from other regions and development…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, International Cooperation
Direct linkGreenstein, Daniel; Ivey, Bill; Kenney, Anne R.; Lavoie, Brian; Smith, Abby – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) organized an invitational conference in May 2003 to examine the key factors shaping the information environment in which libraries operate and how these factors will affect stewardship of the cultural and intellectual resources vital to education and research. Scholars, library directors,…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Services, Information Management, Library Materials
Peer reviewedHarman, Donna; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Presents an overview of the second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2), an opinion paper about the program, and nine papers by participants that show a range of techniques used in TREC. Topics include traditional text retrieval and information technology, efficiency, the use of language processing techniques, unusual approaches to text retrieval,…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Conferences, Efficiency, Information Retrieval
International Library Cooperation. Essen Symposium (10th, Essen, West Germany, October 19-22, 1987).
Helal, Ahmed H., Ed.; Weiss, Joachim W., Ed. – 1988
The proceedings of this symposium contain the texts of 21 presentations: (1) "The Alexandriana Library: A New Opportunity in International Library Cooperation" (Stuart Ede); (2) "Conservation, Culture and Curriculum" (Brendan Loughridge); (3) "European Library Cooperation: An EC (European Community) Standpoint"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Interlibrary Loans, International Cooperation
General Services Administration, Washington, DC. – 1988
Summaries of the welcoming and opening remarks for a symposium on the standards issues that will affect the federal government's planning, acquisition, and use of integrated computer and telecommunications systems over the next five years set the stage for the keynote address by Joseph Timko of IBM entitled "Standards--Perspectives and Evolution."…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer System Design, Data Processing
National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development, Arlington, VA. – 2000
This report represents the findings and recommendations of the "Resolving the Digital Divide: Information, Access, and Opportunity" conference, the first in a series of conferences designed to provide feedback to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) on issues of the digital divide. Conference panelists were a…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, American Indians, Blacks
Federal Library and Information Center Committee, Washington, DC. – 1996
This report is a summary of topics presented at the annual forum of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) of the Library of Congress. The first portion of the Forum examined information availability issues and reviewed government publishing and access arrangements in the United States and other democratic countries.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Federal Government, Foreign Countries, Freedom of Information
EDSAT Inst., Washington, DC. – 1996
Panelists and participants of the Global Summit on Distance Education addressed the roles of the private sector, governments and educational institutions in creating equitable and useful distance education services as telecommunication policies and rules are changing worldwide. This report provides an executive summary, summary of proceedings, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Communications Satellites, Distance Education, Educational Cooperation
Ellebrecht, Ingrid, Ed.; And Others – 1993
This document presents workshop results and participants' reports from the international conference "Train the Trainers in Information and Communication Technology." The participants consisted of 18 women and one man from Czechoslovakia, Russia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania, Mongolia, Jordan, Egypt, and the Philippines. Eleven reports were presented…
Descriptors: Continuing Education Centers, Day Care Centers, Developing Nations, Educational Needs
Lesgold, Alan M., Ed. – 1987
This volume marks the completion of Phase II of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) project of inquiry into the issues inherent in the introduction of new information technologies in education. It summarizes the issues discussed and the recommendations made by four working groups at an international conference, each of which…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Developed Nations
Mulford, Carolyn – 1992
This report contains summaries of papers presented at the annual forum of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) of the Library of Congress. Introductory and special remarks were delivered by FLICC Executive Director Mary Berghaus Levering, Associate Librarian for Constituent Services of the Library of Congress Donald C.…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Access to Information, Case Studies, Census Figures
