[11248] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Summit 4th Panel: DEMOCRACY -- Are you there?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Civille)
Sun Mar 27 01:45:34 1994
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 21:00:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Civille <rciville@civicnet.org>
Reply-To: Richard Civille <rciville@civicnet.org>
Cc: summit@tmn.com
PLEASE REPOST -- PLEASE REPOST
We've risked over-loading your kind good graces with all these
announcements. Now we really want to ask you all to help spread the word
about this last, final panel and the Summit as far as you can -- to
private systems, the Well, Econet -- offline, anywhere and everywhere.
Please post this in places we're not reaching yet. Please use the summit
mailbox address <summit@tmn.com> to copy comments and questions to us.
Please let us know your questions and concerns for the panelists here to
consider.
Making Democracy Work
The NII could support increased civic participation, or it could push
politics further into sound bites or demagoguery. What steps must be
taken to build an NII that promotes citizen participation, free speech,
free assembly, and privacy? Will it include the electronic equivalent of
"public spaces" where people come together as citizens, or only electronic
malls, where people are targeted as consumers? Will the NII foster broad
public access to government information? Will our privacy be protected or
enhanced, or will it be undermined? What responsibilities do government
and the commercial sector have in making democracy work through the NII?
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
