Information Infraestructure

Papers, Articles, Reports, and Speeches

• National Information Infrastructure: Myths, Metaphors and Realities (Malhotra et al.) This paper, arguably, represents the first initiative to integratively review the key issues and principles that underlie the concept of the NII, the primary stakeholders participating in its implementation, the current status of these issues and the future implications for education, business, industry and government.
• Economist: Telecommunications Survey 1997 Articles: ‘Death of Distance’
• The Framework For Global Electronic Commerce (US Whitehouse)
• “The First 100 Feet” Options for Internet and Broadband Access Papers presented at the Fall 1996 conference held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
• Information Infrastructure Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard The home page of the IIP with links to Current Work, Chronology and Publications.
• The Information Superhighway: Opportunities and Problems (Theobald) This article raises some social issues that need to be paid attention for shaping the knowledge society of tomorrow and calls for active involement of the individuals at the grass roots level.
• Teledemocracy: Using Information Technology to Enhance Political Work (Ytterstad et al.) This online production from the first issue of MISQ Discoveryillustrates the use of information technology in teledemocracy based on the development and field trials of a Norwegian system dubbed POT (Politicians’ Channel in the Telecommunications Network).
• Virtual Institute of Information: Cybercommunications & Mass Media Research Contains Papers, Discussion Forums and Events Calendar.
• Internet Society Also includes links to Proceedings of Annual Conferences of the Internet Society.
• Telecom’s New Age (BusinessWeek Apr. 8 ’96) Deregulation of the U.S. telecommunications industry: opportunity or threat? On one hand we may see more restructurings, mergers, and layoffs, on the other hand it offers a “digital-free-for-all” for the communications giants and perhaps, customer-oriented pricing of competitive services.
• Cyberpower (Huber, Dec ’96) The modern, electronically connected global markets are providing the corporations and the consumers unprecedented control over using their shopping clout and their dollars for influencing the fate of their central and state governments. The new communication technologies have resulted in increased fluidity of capital and labor across the increasingly virtual boundaries of the nation states. Increased competition for the global consumers’ dollars [or dinars] is expected to result in better responsiveness by the government regulators if they want to survive in the new ‘free’ market.
• The Network Observer (TNO) Articles on Networks and Democracy from the online newsletter edited by Phil Agre.
• Some Thoughts on Regulating the NII (Tessler)
• NII Scan: Articles related to the various aspects of NII Aritcles from the archives of NII Scan, a quarterly electronic publication that tracks NII policies. Also provides access to the current issue and links to global resources on related issues.
• NetFuture: Technology and Human Responsibility for the Future This newsletter seeks to address the ‘deep level’ implications of computer technology by going beyond the generally recognized risks such as privacy, access, and censorship. It is affiliated with Confronting Technology webpage that attempts to critically examine the relationship between the humans and machines (computers). This page provides a related bibliography and online articles such as Informing Ourselves To Death.
• Telecommunications Policy: INFO-POLICY-NOTES
• Consumer Project on Technology (CPT) Issues include Telecommunications Regulation, ISDN Pricing, Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Government Information, and Special Issues Relating to Access to Legal Information.
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: Symposium:”The NET”
• Internet@crossroads.
• Forbes ASAP Articles by George Gilder
• Too Cheap to Meter? (Economist Oct 19 ’96) This article compares the pricing structures of the internet communications and those provided by the telephone companies. The multimedia intensive nature of the web imposes costs on those using less intensive applications such as e-mail. Does the increasing congestion imply the need for new settlement and pricing mechanisms? Trends suggest movement toward ‘priority’ based pricing in which high priority users would incur higher charges. However, the use-based pricing is opposed by justifications provided by those favoring a flat-fee structure.
• Let’s Make Sure the Information Highway Is More than a Data Tollway!
• Internet Economics: Special Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing
• Year 2000: Fix It Now: (Datamation: Special Report)
• Four Black Holes In Cyberspace
• Four Ethical Issues of the Information Age: Accuracy, Property, Accessibility & Privacy
• Information Superwhichway?
• Thinking Locally, Acting Globally Censorship of Cyberspace: An Issue of Control?
• Information Policy Articles & Resources
• Telecom Policy Links
• Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications (RAND, 1995)
• Universal Service To Universal Access (Study by the Arizona Governor’s Office of Telecommunications Policy)
• Consolidation of Networks to Enhance Community Telecommunications (Report by the Arizona Governor’s Office of Telecommunications Policy)
• Information Society Theory: Reports & Papers
• Anarchy, State, and the Internet: An Essay on Law-Making in Cyberspace
• Global Information Issues Reports
• Reports & Documents on the Global Information Infrastructure (GII)
• Netsurf: the Reading List
• Law and Order Comes to Cyberspace
• Government Policy and the Information Superhighway (Australia)
• Electronic Frontiers Australia
• I’M-EUROPE (Information Market Europe)
• Japan NII doucments from INFORUM
• Netizen Forum: Archived Discussion on Japan’s Information & Communication Policy
• Singapore NII Documents Also see IT2000 – A Vision of an Intelligent Island
• UK NII Publications & Papers (CCTA, The UK Government Centre for Information Systems)
• Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems (ACM)
• EFF “Global/National Information Infrastructure & Open Platform” Archive
• Academic Work in the Virtual University (Article: Long)
• Peter Huber’s Articles & Reports
• Ramping up for the U.S. Data Highway (MISQ)
• The Villanova Information Law Chronicle
• The NII – An Administrative Perspective (Michael Nelson)
• Where Is the Digital Highway Really Heading?
• Robber Barrons of the Information Highway (Joshua Wolf Shenk)
• TIME Magazine SPECIAL ISSUE ON CYBERSPACE
• Publications of The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy
• Rutgers Universal Service Report sponsored by Bell Atlantic
• Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
• MIT NII Documents in Communications Policy Program
• National Information Infrastructure Sourcebook (Kennedy School, Harvard)
• NII Task Force’s Draft on Intellectual Property Rights