[11170] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Agenda: Public Interest Summit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Civille)
Wed Mar 23 19:42:01 1994
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 00:21:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Civille <rciville@civicnet.org>
Apparently-To: <com-priv@psi.com>
Program Agenda
(as of 3/22, 10:30 am)
8:45 a.m. Welcome:
Andrew Blau, Benton Foundation, on behalf of
foundation co-sponsors & Program Committee;
Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown, Chairman of
the Information Infrastructure Task Force.
9:00 a.m. Access to What? Access for Whom?
Raul Yzaguirre, President, National Council of La
Raza, and Chairman, Independent Sector
9:15 a.m. Delivering the Goods: Meeting Public Needs
Moderator: V. Lane Rawlins, President, Memphis State University
Panelists: C. Everett Koop, Senior Scholar, Koop Institute
David Lytel, Information Infrastructure
Specialist, The White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy
Jean Armour Polly, Director of User Services
New York State Research & Education Network
Anthony Riddle, Chairman, Alliance for Community Media
Connie Stout, Director, Texas Educational Network
Patricia Waak, Director, Human Population and
Resource Use Deptartment, National
Audubon Society
10:30 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. "A Link Into Every Home": How, What and When?
Moderator: Allen Hammond, Director, Communications Media Center
New York Law School
Panelists: Ron Binz, Director, Colorado Office of Consumer
Counsel
Mark Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer
Federation of America
Deborah Kaplan, Vice President, World Institute on
Disability
Robert Larson, President/General Manager, WTVS-Detroit
Michael Nelson, Special Assistant for Information
Technology, The White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy
Andrew J. Schwartzman, Executive Director, Media
Access Project
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Vice President Al Gore
Introduced by Peter Goldmark, President
The Rockefeller Foundation
2:00 p.m. Economics, Community, and Democracy
Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Executive
Director, NAACP
2:15 p.m. Building Communities and the Economy
Moderator: Linda Tarr-Whelan, President and Executive Director,
Center for Policy Alternatives
Panelists: Morton Bahr, President, Communications Workers
of America
Cushing Dolbeare, President, Low-Income
Housing Coalition
Thomas Kalil, Director to the National Economic
Council
Anthony Pharr, Counsel, Office of Communication,
United Church of Christ
Diana Roose, Research Director, 9 to 5, National
Association of Working Women
Randy Ross, Vice President, American Indian
Telecommunications
3:30 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Making Democracy Work
Moderator: Sonia Jarvis, Executive Director, National
Coalition for Black Voter Participation
Panelists: Brian Banks, Policy Research Action Group
Jim Butler, Director, AARP/VOTE, American
Association of Retired Persons
Mitch Kapor, Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, and Chair,
Information Policy Committee, IITF
Ralph Nader, Center for the Study of Responsive Law
Nadine Strossen, President, ACLU
5:00 p.m. Summing Up: Woodward Wickham, Vice President, John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chair, Grantmakers
in Film, Television and Video
5:30-6:30 p.m. Reception: Hors d'oeuvres; Cash Bar
