NII and Articles, Papers, and Reports

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Building the NII: Challenges for Higher Education

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Title:Building the NII: Challenges for Higher Education (ID: ERM94211)
Author(s):Michael M. Roberts
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1994)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:The information revolution has come in from the Cold War and the world isn't the same anymore. A two-decade-old effort to link mainframe computers for use by defense researchers has blossomed into everyman's Internet--a global information system composed of millions of computers and communications links that is doubling in size each year.
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Ken Robinson: Crying FIRE! in a Theater Full of Arsonists

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Title:Ken Robinson: Crying FIRE! in a Theater Full of Arsonists (ID: ERM9514)
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1995)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:The Washington, D.C., communications attorney who writes and publishes Telecommunications Policy Review argues that technology and the NII may be more menace than savior. Is he a cynic or realist?
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Legislation and the NII

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Title:Legislation and the NII (ID: ERM9423)
Author(s):Robert G. Gillespie
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1994)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:In Educom Review's special report on national networking, ten experts report on policy, legislation, ethics, higher education, and the new role of government in determining our future.
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Man Bites Dog: A Government Report Worth Reading

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Title:Man Bites Dog: A Government Report Worth Reading (ID: ERM95110)
Author(s):Carol A. Twigg
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1995)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:The federal Information Infrastructure Task Force's vision of a learning society.
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Privacy and the National Information Infrastructure

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Title:Privacy and the National Information Infrastructure (ID: ERM94212)
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1994)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:In Educom Review's special report on national networking, ten experts report on policy, legislation, ethics, higher education, and the new role of government in determining our future.
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The Information Superhighway Metaphor and the Politics of Public Good

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Title:The Information Superhighway Metaphor and the Politics of Public Good (ID: ERM9467)
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1994)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:By comparing the information superhighway to the nation's interstate highway system, some argue that government involvement is justified. But is the information superhighway really a public good?
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The NII and the New World Trade Agreement

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Title:The NII and the New World Trade Agreement (ID: ERM94214)
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1994)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:In Educom Review's special report on national networking, ten experts report on policy, legislation, ethics, higher education, and the new role of government in determining our future.
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Toward a National Learning Infrastructure

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Title:Toward a National Learning Infrastructure (ID: ERM9424)
Author(s):William H. Graves (SunGard Higher Education)
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1994)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:A carefully structured National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) will ensure that the medium is the message and that higher education's investments and experience in national networking and telecommunications result in an educational medium in which instructional programs can be as accessible and effective as educational leaders dream and as affordable as public and personal fiscal realities demand.
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Trackage Rights On The Cyber-Railroad

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Title:Trackage Rights On The Cyber-Railroad (ID: ERM95314)
Author(s):Michael M. Roberts
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1995)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:The NII must build a path somewhere between too much capitalism and too much regulation.
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Virtual Estate in Cyberspace

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Title:Virtual Estate in Cyberspace (ID: ERM94210)
Author(s):Paul Evan Peters (Coalition for Networked Information)
Origin:Educom Review (Archives) (1994)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:Although commercial and noncommercial providers of network services are guided by very different goals and principles, both models must be recognized in order for the NII to deal effectively with intellectual property issues.
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