Planning Committee
| Are there major or comprehensive telecommunications planning efforts being made by other states or organizations? | |
| Where are the best sources of general information helpful to the telecommunications planning effort? | |
| Can we learn from the example and experiences of other states? | |
| What surveys of telecommunications needs and services are underway or have been completed? What can we learn from this? | |
| How is telecommunications planning being accomplished in other countires? | |
| Are there other sources of information available on the World Wide Web we should check out? |
The States Inventory Project web site (under development) is a comprehensive database of infrastructure deployment data, initiatives, strategies, and related information for networking education, government, and the public in each of the fifty United States. The Project Team has collected information on communications demographics, state strategic plans for advanced telecommunications deployment and use, state plans for providing universal service/access, state legislative and regulatory developments, state NII-related programs and initiatives, and information on other NII-related issues.
This directory provides a look at where states are heading on the telecommunications front. It includes a look at the planning process and infrastructure commitments that states are instituting regarding telecommunications.
A variety of Web sites contain information on Strategic and Business Planning. A few are at municipalities, some are at Universities, others are state/provincial or federal government sites and related agencies, associations, etc.
The Virtual Institute of Information is a site for communications and mass media research from an economic and policy perspective.
This site contains references to information sources relating to the technical, economic, public policy, and social aspects of telecommunications. All forms of telecommunication, including, voice, data, video, wired, wireless, cable TV, and satellite, are included with pointers to other WWW servers, with a brief description of the type of information.
Work products of the Council are listed at this site. The NIIAC represented many of the key constituencies with a stake in the National Information Infrastructure including private industry; state and local governments; community, public interest, education, and labor groups; creators and distributors of content; privacy and security advocates; and leading experts in NII-related fields.
This site highlights coming activity at the Federal Communications Commission to implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Governments are seeking to establish communications networks for intelligent transportation systems and other governmental functions. It is in this context that there is increased incentive and opportunity for sharing the public resource of highway right-of-way in exchange for private telecommunications expertise and capacity to further both public sector and private corporate objectives.
On this page are links to sites that relate, in some respect, to libraries' use of the Internet and the role of libraries in the evolving National Information Infrastructure.
This page focuses on sections of the act of most immediate interest to the education and library communities namely, 1) provisions for broadening Universal Service to provide lower telecommunication costs for libraries and schools, and 2) the Communications Decency section of the act incorporating language prohibiting transmission of "indecent" information over the Internet.
The purpose of this paper is to look at the interconnection issue from a broad consumer perspective and to underscore certain basic principles. This paper focuses on the big picture: protecting consumer interests while making the transition to competition and afterwards. We will demonstrate that the current interconnection decisions will determine whether or not the rest of the Act works as it was intended; it is the fulcrum for the other major decisions. We illustrate how consumer and public interest objectives-universal access to an advanced public infrastructure regardless of income, location, or disability, and creation of high-paying jobs-are at stake in what might otherwise appear to be arcane technical issues.
The General Social Survey is an "omnibus," personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). The special features of the GSS follow from its unique origin as the first, perhaps only, social science data set designed to be analyzed by "users,"rather than the PIs and project staff. The mission of the GSS is to make timely, high-quality, scientifically relevant data available to the social science research community.
As the MacArthur Foundation and other civic-minded philanthropies grapple with the challenges ahead, there are three vital perspectives that should inform our thinking: the need for a sovereign citizen vision for the new media; the transforming effects of distributed information networks; and the need for a telecommunications architecture that fosters community, democracy and culture.
A Model Telecommunications Policy for California Cities Adopted April, 1994
This site contains - a model bill on Electronic Access to State Legislative Information; model resolutions on Information Privacy, Privacy, Telecommunications Competition, Universal Access; and, file folders with State Telecommunication Legislation and State Information Infrastructure Projects through 1994.
Nua, (Dublin, Ireland), are now offering a Surveys Now! service where the day's additions to Internet Surveys are emailed to you on the day allowing you to remain up to date without having to visit the site or wait for the Internet Surveys Monthly newsletter.
Economics and Technology Incorporated has conducted a study for the Internet Access Coalition which responds to some papers that several Baby Bells submitted to the FCC last summer in which these local phone companies blame Internet use for serious telephone network congestion and increased costs.
The number of Americans going online to an information service or directly to the Internet has more than doubled in the past year, but most consumers are still feeling their way through cyberspace. Few see online activities as essential to them, and no single online feature, with the exception of E-Mail, is used with any regularity.
February 18, 1997--IntelliQuest Information Group, Inc. today announced the results of its latest survey of the online population, showing an Internet/online population of approximately 47 million adults (age 16 and above) in the United States in the fourth quarter of 1996. This represents a 34% growth in the online population from the first quarter of 1996, which was measured at 35 million . Despite this dramatic population growth in 1996, relatively few are "heavy" users with four and a quarter million people using the Internet and online services 20 hours or more per week.
International Plans & Projects
Center for Tele-Information is an initiative of the Denmarks Tekniske Universitet and Tele Danmark, with strong support from the Danish government, to help Denmark developing an information society that is internationally competitive, while preserving its traditional values and culture.
Site contains general articles and memos about communications, computer information & technology, educational institutions, government relations, intellectual property, interactive media & technology, public telecommunications and other topics.
This executive summary has been excerpted from a 119-page comprehensive analysis of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by the law firm of Dow, Lohnes & Albertson. This executive summary has been prepared as an overview and preliminary information resource for clients of DL&A and other interested parties. The content of this analysis is general legal information and is not intended as specific legal advice. Readers should not act upon the information presented without consulting legal counseling.
Taub Urban Research Center, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, November, 1996 - This paper examines the way in which reforms brought on by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and advances in communications technology will influence the economic function of cities in the United States, the delivery of urban public services and the economic condition of inner-city neighborhoods. The paper reviews the major scholarly literature and government documents concerning telecommunications and cities and identifies the critical telecommunications policy issues that cities will face in the years ahead.
The March 1997 issue includes articles such as: Multilingualism on the Internet; Trusted Systems; Searching the Internet; Filtering Information on the Internet; Netsurfing Without a Monitor; Going Digital; Interfaces for Searching the Web; and, Preserving the Internet.
The Internet 2 initiative is a collaborative effort by the nation's leading research universities, teamed with government and industry partners, to accelerate the next stage of Internet development in support of higher education. The Internet 2 project has three basic goals: 1) the creation of a leading edge network capability for the national research community; 2) the development of a new generation of network applications that will support media integration and real time collaboration necessary to support national research objectives, distance education and life long learning; and, 3) the rapid transfer of new network services and applications into the commercial marketplace, thereby improving production Internet services to all members of the academic community.
This new NYSERNet initiative will develop the requirements, technical specifications and funding mechanisms needed to define a new level of network connectivity in support of leading edge research and education applications. The attached white paper, Evolving a High Performance Network Infrastructure for New York State, defines the scope of this project.
by Andrew K. Bjerring and Bill St. Arnaud, January 21, 1997- A background paper and plan for the Canadian version of the Internet 2 project.