[10586] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
More sources for Federal content
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The future Ross Stapleton-Gray)
Sun Feb 27 17:32:35 1994
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 4:45:56 -0700 (MST)
From: The future Ross Stapleton-Gray <STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Still chewing on the issue of Federal vs. private sector provision of
educational content, it occurred to me that there's a significant mass
educational materials already extant in the work of the Federally-funded
museums, and the National Park Services. Anyone who's read "The Mixed-Up
Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" knows that one could practically live
off the richness of a museum...just "walking through" (virtually) the
Museum of American History here in D.C. would have provided more
information than all of the formal texts I got in K-12 on the subject.
What DoEd might become, over time, is a cadre of information
facilitators who develop those Federal resources for better dissemination.
On the government/private sector tension in general, I'd like to see more
understanding that the government itself is changing...if the private
sector workforce is increasingly composed of "information workers," then
so is the Federal government workforce. The general tone of the "get the
government the hell out of my face" theme is that we all must be gray,
inflexible bureaucrats, around which the nimble private-sector
entrepreneurs tinker & invent...
Ross
