Sender: Laura Goostree <•••@••.•••> Something interesting from Edupage.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:06:51 -0500 (EST) From: Edupage Editors <•••@••.•••> To: EDUCOM Edupage Mailing List <•••@••.•••> Subject: Edupage, 31 March 1996 ***************************************************************** Edupage, 31 March 1996. Edupage, a summary of news items on information technology, is provided three times each week as a service by Educom, a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. ***************************************************************** CLINTON ADMINISTRATION BACKS UNIVERSAL ACCESS The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has asked the FCC to pass rules that would make subsidized telephone service more readily available to disadvantaged and rural citizens. NTIA noted that a telephone not only connects "an individual to neighbors and loved ones but with the addition of a computer and a modem, it furnishes a pathway to the Information Age, offering enhanced employment and educational opportunities." Although the administration was careful not to specifically include Internet access in its proposal, the director of telecommunications and technology studies at the Cato Institute worries that might come next: "When they first talked about universal service as a system of subsidies for rural service, I could live with that. But what concerns me now is that they seem to want to extend the universal service doctrine to Internet access, cable TV access... It's always been the case that rich people buy things before poor people do. Natural penetration rates are different for different products. You can't second-guess the market." (Los Angeles Times 30 Mar 96 D1) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Laura Goostree "Big Dog! Big Dog! Bow Wow Wow! Internet: •••@••.••• We'll Crush Evil...Now, Now, Now!" CompuServe: 74353,2037 Space Canine Patrol =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/Library/ CyberJournal: (WWW or FTP) --> ftp://ftp.iol.ie/users/rkmoore Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
