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From: hurst@vistatech.com (Dave Hurst)
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 09:53:02 CDT
To: nexus-gaia@netcom.com, nexus-chicago@mcs.com
Subject: Oregon Coast Rural Information Service C
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From: "Whitney, Mara" <MaraW@fs-gate.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Oregon Coast Rural Information Service C
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From: Phil Agre <pagre@weber.ucsd.edu>
Subject: Oregon Coast Rural Information Service Cooperative
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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 15:27:21 -0700
From: dmitchel@ednet1.osl.or.gov (Dave W Mitchell)
OREGON COAST RURAL INFORMATION SERVICE COOPERATIVE
P.O. Box 851, Waldport OR 97394
(503) 563-4159
A working group centered in Lincoln County and
comprising a variety of individuals, businesses, and
organizations is undertaking formation of the Oregon Coast
Rural Information Service Cooperative. The Cooperative is
intended to be an alliance of information resource and
service providers and information consumers working in
concert to overcome some of the factors responsible for
rural isolation.
The urban business or individual has low-cost or free
access to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of
persons, a wealth of archived data, and manifold streams of
ongoing communication. The rural resident is fortunate to be
capable of reaching a few thousand individuals, and the bulk
of available information lies on the other side of the
telephone tariff barrier or the cost wall of commercial
providers.
Moreover, rural organizations, be they businesses,
public service groups, or educational entities, cannot
procure services in bulk. An urban "small" business, with
hundreds of employees, can purchase a single multiuser
license for an expensive package of computer programs vital
to its activities; the typical rural small business can only
have affordable access to such software by generating a
multiuser base through cooperation with other entities to
distribute the cost.
It is our hope that we can unite the entire central
Oregon Coast into a single information procurement and
distribution cooperative embracing all segments of the
community: business, the educational system, public service
and public interest groups, the retired population, and, in
general, residents wishing to make use of the vast resources
that now exist.
To that end, we are soliciting public input on co-op
organization, data distribution means, forms of information
to be made available, data transfer modes (real-time and
BBS-buffered), and access mechanisms.
Some proposals now under consideration include:
centralized access to commercial software (with
technical support);
a clearinghouse for data procurement from
databases and information network sources (attempting to
find multiple consumers for similar data types to reduce
search and information costs) and for dissemination of
locally generated information;
a network of local bulletin board systems with the
ability to archive frequently used information and provide
doorways to useful programs and services (e.g., map
generation facilities).
We need the views and suggestions of all interested
coastal entities and residents. Please submit them to OCRISC
at the above address, or call me at 563-4159.
Thank you,
Dave Mitchell
Acting Executive
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Dave W. Mitchell Waldport, Oregon
Oregon Coast Rural Information Service Cooperative
"A bit off the superhighway"
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