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National Forum on Education Statistics, 2020
The purpose of this document is to provide timely and useful best practice information to help education agencies proactively prepare for, appropriately mitigate, and responsibly recover from a cybersecurity incident. This resource reflects lessons learned by the education community and provides recommendations that will help agencies protect…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Security, Confidential Records, Information Management
Windhausen, John, Jr. – EDUCAUSE, 2008
This white paper proposes bringing the federal government, state governments, and the private sector together as part of a new approach to making high-speed Internet services available across the country. It proposes the creation of a new federal Universal Broadband Fund (UBF) that, together with matching funds from the states and the private…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Telecommunications, Public Sector, Partnerships in Education
Data Research Associates, Inc., St. Louis, MO. – 1992
The topic of open systems as it relates to the needs of libraries to establish interoperability between dissimilar computer systems can be clarified by an understanding of the background and evolution of the issue. The International Standards Organization developed a model to link dissimilar computers, and this model has evolved into consensus…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Equipment Manufacturers, Equipment Standards
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. – 1993
This document contains transcriptions of testimony and prepared statements on national technology policy with a focus on President Clinton and Vice President Gore's initiatives to support the development of a national information infrastructure. On the first day of the hearing testimony was received from Edward H. Salmon, Chairman, New Jersey…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Government Role, Information Networks, Information Technology
Ladner, Sharyn – 1989
In 1988 the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Networking Committee conducted a survey of association members to identify important networking issues and concerns. The survey results, presented in this report, were intended to assist the SLA Board of Directors in determining future directions for the association to take with respect to…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Information Networks, Librarians, Library Associations
Johnson, Bruce; Sharp, Colin – 1987
This two-phase study of the use of networks and information retrieval systems by schools in Australia was designed to inquire as to the extent that schools are using all available networks; how appropriate and effective these sources of information are for schools; how costly such services might be; and what developments can be reasonably expected…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1993
This background paper analyzes technologies for tomorrow's information superhighways. Advanced networks will first be used to support scientists in their work, but will soon be deployed more widely in business, entertainment, health care, and education. Significant progress has been made toward the development of gigabit network technology since…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Information Networks, Information Technology
Johnston, Robert L. – American School Board Journal, 1988
In Dallas, a computerized "voice mail" system keeps board members only a telephone call away from the action and allows them to respond to the messages at their own convenience. (TE)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Dial Access Information Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Networks
Charp, Sylvia; Hines, I. J. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1988
Discussed are the factors to be considered when establishing a computer network. Considered are telecommunications, in general, along with channels, switching, packet switching, transmission, multiplexing, and local area networks (LANS). (TW)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
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Walsh, John – Science, 1988
Discusses the addition of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration database to the National Science Foundation's NSFnet data communication network. Outlines the history of databases in the United States and enumerates proposed upgrades from a new Office of Science and Technology policy report. (TW)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computers, Databases, Government Role
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1989
The Office of Technology Assessment is conducting an assessment of the effects of new information technologies--including high performance computing, data networking, and mass data archiving--on research and development. This paper offers a view of the issues and their implications for current discussions about Federal supercomputer initiatives…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Information Networks
Van Houweling, Douglas E.; McGill, Michael J. – 1993
The rapidly developing and changing networking and telecommunications environment now being implemented in the United States and across the globe is explored. The creation of a flexible and inexpensive digital network allowing instantaneous access by any individual to information of any type is now within our grasp. A primer on the technology…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Kahin, Brian, Ed. – 1993
This volume is designed to provide planners and policymakers with a single volume reference book on efforts to define and develop policy for the National Information Infrastructure. The sourcebook is divided into five sections: (1) official documents; (2) vision statements and position papers; (3) program and project descriptions (all sectors);…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Networks, Federal Government
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1994
The use of information networks for business and government is expanding enormously. Government use of networks features prominently in plans to make government more efficient, effective, and responsive. But the transformation brought about by the networking also raises new concerns for the security and privacy of networked information. This…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer Security, Cryptography
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Accounting and Information Management Div. – 1994
The House Armed Services Committee asked the GAO (General Accounting Office) to examine the HPCC (High Performance Computing and Communications) program in terms of: (1) the effectiveness of the program's management structure in setting goals and measuring progress, and (2) how extensively private industry has been involved in the planning and…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Federal Government, Futures (of Society)
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