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<NIC.MERIT.EDU> /nren/nii.1994/gore.gii 24 March 1994
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 13:06:10 -0500
From: Howard Frederick <hfrederick@igc.apc.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <roundtable@cni.org>
Subject: Gore Calls for GII
U.S. CHALLENGES WORLD TO BUILD ``NETWORK OF NETWORKS"
BUENOS AIRES (Reuter) - The United States urged countries to build a
``network of networks" that could pump billions of dollars into the global
economy by linking computers in homes, schools and offices around the world.
Vice President Al Gore Monday told a U.N.-sponsored conference on
telecommunications development that the world has the financial and technical
resources to spin such a web, which he baptized a Global Information
Infrastructure (GII).
``We now can at last create a planetary information network that
transmits messages and images with the speed of light from the largest city
to the smallest village on every continent," Gore said.
Some U.S. experts maintain a world computing network could be built and
run by private industry. In fact, Gore pointed out in his speech, the network
is already being built in bits and pieces as fiber-optic cable is laid under
seas and across continents.
His announcement coincided with the creation of a joint venture between
the founders of Microsoft Corp and of McCaw Cellular Communications Inc,
which appears to share a similar philosophy.
In his speech to an audience including some of the world's top
policy-makers and the biggest names in the communications industry, Gore said
his country would throw all its might behind the global network project.
Gore described a vision of a web capable of improving international
communications, of raising businesses' productivity, taking education to the
farthest corners of the world and even promoting representative democracy.
Transmitted: 94-03-22 05:43:00 EST
Posted to ROUNDTABLE by:
Howard Frederick
<hfrederick@igc.apc.org>