At 06:49 PM 4/13/99 -0400, interesting_people wrote:
>>From: "Tim Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "Dave Farber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>
>>FYI, CNN's take on the IPI
>>
>>Latest Internet Policy Group Sprouts In Washington
>>April 12, 1999: 4:52 p.m. ET
>>By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes
>>http://www.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/newsbytes/129140.html
>>
>> WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A. (NB) -- As the Internet becomes more popular in the
>>American public, it tends to gather bills and lobby groups like barnacles.
>>The latest of these, the Internet Policy Institute (IPI), was announced
>>today.
>>The IPI's working group is chaired by Kimberly Jenkins, the chairman and
>>founder of Highway 1, a group known to the political technology followers in
>>Washington as the non-profit corporation that casts itself as a "nonpartisan
>>resource on information technologies" for federal, state and local
>>government.
>>Jenkins told Newsbytes the group has not yet "gotten down to the nitty-
>>gritty" on particular issues on which it will focus, but said that it will
>>analyze economic policy, law and regulation. Some preliminary discussion
>>points may include intellectual property, state issues and general legal
>>frameworks. IPI is designed in a similar frame to Highway 1, in that IPI is
>>supposed to provide "high-quality analysis, research, education and outreach
>>on a full range of economic, social and policy issues affecting and affected
>>by the global development and use of the Internet."
>>In an initial IPI statement, the group said its founding money came from
>>America Online Inc. [NYSE:AOL], the Nasdaq exchange, the Morino Institute,
>>MCI WorldCom [NASDAQ:WCOM], Network Solutions Inc. [NASDAQ:NSOL], the
>>Potomac KnowledgeWay and the World Information Technology and Services
>>Alliance.
>>The Potomac KnowledgeWay, itself another non-profit "educational"
>>organization located outside of Washington in Herndon, Va., hired the
>>Washington Advisory Group, a science and technology consulting firm, to
>>handle the proposal for the IPI.
>>"This is the right idea at the right time," Jenkins said. "In less than a
>>decade the Internet has grown from a network used primarily by university
>>researchers and computer hobbyists to a thriving communications medium that
>>links more than 100 million individuals worldwide. With the policy makers of
>>both the United States and many of the major industrialized nations focusing
>>an increasing amount of attention on the Internet, it has become critical to
>>bring the global thinking, research and debate on these issues together in
>>one central location."
>>The IPI's working group -- it's nerve center -- includes Jenkins; NASDAQ
>>President Alfred R. Berkeley; Virginia Polytechnic Institute for Information
>>Systems Vice President Earving L. Blythe; Microsoft Corp.'s Research
>>Assistant Director Jack Breese; Network Solutions Chairman Michael A.
>>Daniels; Esther Dyson, the chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
>>Names and Numbers (ICANN); George Mason University President Alan G. Merten;
>>University of Maryland, College Park President Dan Mote; Johns Hopkins
>>University Vice Provost for Research Theodore O. Poehler; Freedom Forum Vice
>>President of Technology and Programs Adam C. Powell III; MCI WorldCom Chief
>>Policy Counsel Jonathan Sallet; Washington Post Co. President and CEO Alan
>>G. Spoon; and AOL Senior Vice President for Global and Strategic Policy
>>George Vradenburg III.
>>Noting that the working group and the seed capital sources represent several
>>companies and other groups with very specific high-tech agendas on the Hill,
>>Jenkins said that "we are taking great pains to make sure that the funding
>>comes from diverse sources."
>>
>>Copyright � 1999 CNN America, Inc.
>>
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>>Tim Smith
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