And now, from out of the blue, a postive action proposal! (It was also posted to Cyberspace Society.) -rkm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 Sender: •••@••.••• (Allan Bradley) Subject: Proposal for a Democratic Communications Corporation I don't know the real interest here but I thought I would throw this out to everyone. I would like to propose the formation of Non-profit Corporation dedicated to establishing Democracy based advanced communications infrastructures. The charter of this Corporation would be to provide support, methodologies, tools, financing assistance and technical assistance for public and private institutions that will focus community based networks. The deliverables of this corporation to its customers would be to assure the accurate, fair documentation and cost modeling of *community* controlled networks that will encompass all social, economic and cultural classes . Primary focus would be to education, healthcare, local government and public service utilities in establishing financing, vendor support, logical/physical distribution and technical engineering open standards. The Democratic Communications Corporation (DCC) (It is not aligned with any political party) is a virtual corporation made up from a wide variety of individual talents and expertise accross the nation coming together through the Internet and advanced communications media technologies. The structure of the corporation would be as follows: 1. Board of Directors Board of Directors would have expertise in a multidimensional fields including, healthcare, education, technical systems/networking, social/cultural sciences, legal affairs, government affairs, etc. The Board of Directors would consist of the governing body of the corporation and would establish the corporation's goals, visions and operational values. Estimated hourly time commitments and participants - Yet to be determined. 2. Partners Partners run the core of the company operation and would require an hourly remuneration equitable to their time commitment. Partners expertise would consist of the logistics coordination given contracts, billing, tracking, costing and project coordination of community infrastructure distribution attributes. An established set of Partners would be required to define the company's policies and procedures standard of operation. Estimated hourly time commitments and participants - Yet to be determined. 3. Associates Associates consist of both socio-economic, management and network/systems technical expertise. Associates are either part time or full time depending on community project loads. Associates would be paid an hourly fee depending on project complexity. Efforts would be to first use local expertise in the target community to minimize expense as created by a national Talent Bank. Estimated hourly time commitments and Talent Bank definitions - Yet to be determined. The business model of the Democratic Communications Corporation is a layered approach specifically as defined by the unique local characteristics given the following hierarchy: |------------------------| | Community | | goals/vison | |------------------------| |------------------------| | Strategic Values | | Benefits | |------------------------| |------------------------| | Network Model | |------------------------| |------------------------| | Financing and Vendor | | support | |------------------------| |------------------------| | Technologies, | | Distribution, and | | Bandwidth | |------------------------| |------------------------| | Community | | Participation | |------------------------| It will be the goal of the Democratic Communications Corporation (DCC) to aid and assist on a non-profit fixed fee basis (to be determined by a operating cost formulas per project) to any community requiring special assistance and aid in the establishment, design and coordination of large community networks. Special emphasis will be on financing approaches and vendor participation in spreading costs of the community infrastructure capital expenses overtime and to establish proper connectivity expenses on a pay as able format. Consideration will be given to offset DCCs expenses by entertaining a small percentage of community connection revenues . It is the goal and prime directive of the services of the Democratic Communications Corporation to partner with all parties to establish a profitable and viable community network set of services that will advance the *total* economic viability of the community being served. My company ConsulMetrix, Inc. CMI, has developed an intellectual property that systemizes community infrastructure modeling attributes given Technologies, Bandwidth and Distribution. It also develops the economic models for distribution (leasing) so that technologies are intelligently applied. I am prepared to offer an exclusive unlimited license for one dollar to the Democratic Communications Corporation of sole use of this program methodology. This was developed through work with major universities on multi million dollar networks in defining advanced multimedia (voice, video and data) architectures. We have been attempting to work with the phone companies (i.e. Pacific Bell) but they are not interested in generating objective models, with our company at any rate. I think this proves, regardless of CMI, the urgency of community tools and services to allow more control in society defining its own infrastructure interests with respect to community destiny engineering. I think there is a lot of frustration on seeing what is going to happen with valuable community communications resources. I also think there are a lot of good people that want to get involved if they just knew how. I would stress that this is at a concept level and it is just thrown out to see what can be done. I also stress that anyone and everyone whether a Republican or Democrat get involved. It really isn't a party issue. It is a community issue to us all. Allan Bradley ConsulMetrix, Inc. Setting the Standards in Technology Consulting @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. Moore (•••@••.•••) Wexford, Ireland Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ CyberLib: http://www.internet-eireann.ie/cyberlib Materials may be reposted in their entirety for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
