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Download full textWhite House Conference on Library and Information Services. – 1991
Intended for use by the delegates to the second White House Conference on Library and Information Services (WHCLIS2), this issue briefing book contains national issues which have been identified at the governors' pre-White House conferences in the various states and territories. The issues have been assigned to 10 topical areas--Access,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Democracy, Information Networks
Johnson, Deborah G. – EDUCOM Review, 1994
Discusses computer ethics and the use of computer networks. Topics addressed include computer hackers; software piracy; computer viruses and worms; intentional and unintentional abuse; intellectual property rights versus freedom of thought; the role of information in a democratic society; individual privacy; legislation; social attitudes; and the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Democracy, Educational Needs
Peer reviewedRogers, Everett M.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Investigates the socioeconomic and gender equality aspects of the public's use of PEN (Public Electronic Network), a computer-based interactive communication system provided free to residents of Santa Monica (California). Topics discussed include public terminals; use by homeless people and by women; and participation in political communication…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Communications, Community Programs
Shane, Jackie C. – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1994
Discusses using the Internet as a tool for delivering information to rural areas and the possible benefits, such as telecommuting, effective dissemination of medical information, and the promotion of grass-roots activism. The means rural residents use to connect to the Internet and their use of bulletin board systems are described. (nine…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Activism, Citizen Participation, Computer Networks
Doctor, Ronald D.; Turner, Philip M. – 1991
This paper, which was presented to National Aeronautics and Space Administration librarians as part of a telecommunications conference, describes features of the proposed National Research and Education Network (NREN). First, NREN's predecessor, the National Science Foundation network (the current NSFnet/Internet system), is discussed and the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Databases, Democracy
Peer reviewedCurtis, Jean M.; And Others – Government Information Quarterly, 1992
Eight articles discuss the ramifications of the summary report of the 1991 White House Conference on Library and Information Services ("Information 2000") from the perspectives of documents librarians, special libraries, the American Library Association, and Native American library services. The conference themes of democracy, literacy,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, American Indians, Computer Networks, Copyrights
Peer reviewedDoctor, Ronald D. – Internet Research, 1994
Proposals for shaping the National Information Infrastructure (NII) lack sufficient provision for supporting locally controlled information delivery systems, which could serve all the people, regardless of class or community environment. A system of federally sponsored National and Regional Institutes for Information Democracy could help meet this…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Democracy, Federal Programs
