Chapter Event 1996-01-18

Internet Society
Washington, DC Chapter

NEW EVENT!
The Telecommunications Reform Legislation:
Implications For the Internet and The National
Information Infrastructure

Thursday, January 18, 1996
7:00 – 9:00 pm

The Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (DC-ISOC) announces its next event, co-sponsored by the Office of the Senior Information Officer of the Smithsonian Institution, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (Washington D.C. chapter), The Global Telecommunications Society, and The Institute for Computer and Telecommunication Systems Policy, George Washington UniversityWhen: Thursday, January 18, 1996
7:00 – 9:00 pm

Where: Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Auditorium
Freer Gallery of Art
Independence Ave and 12 St., S.W.
Washington, D.C.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of the pending rewrite of the Communications Act of America on both the Internet (e.g. censorship, universal access, etc.) and the broader NII (e.g. competition and concentration of ownership in media markets, the promotion of noncommercial spaces, public interest safeguards, etc).

Speakers:

Ross Stapleton-Gray, Chair, DC-ISOC (moderator)

Bill Drake , Asst. Prof., UC San Diego/Congressionial Fellow, Washington D.C.
Editor, The New Information Infrastructure: Strategies for U.S. Policy .

Tom Kalil, Director to the National Economic Council, The White House

Audrie Krause, Exec. Director, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility .

Nancy Watzman, Director, The Cashing In Project, The Center for Responsive Politics

Chris Casey, Technology Advisor, Democratic Technology and Communications Committee, U.S. Senate

Brock Meeks, Chief Washington Correspondent for Wired/ HotWired.

Event Details

This event will be held in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., northeast corner of Independence Avenue and 12th St., SW. Use the entrance on the Independence Avenue side of the building (there is a street-level wheelchair entrance as well).

Metro:
Smithsonian metro stop on the Blue or Orange lines.
Take the Independence Ave./Holocaust museum exit.
The Freer Gallery is diagonally across the street.

Street parking is available after 6:30 pm on the Mall,
on Independence Avenue and on l’Enfant Promenade.
(If you are still not sure where this is located, take a look at this Map of the Mall. The Freer is labeled on the right side of this photo.)

There is no charge to attend this event.

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