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########## ########## ########## | FIGALLO DIRECTS EFF/CAMBRIDGE
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#### #### #### | CLINTON ON HIGH TECH
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######## ######## ######## | ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY
#### #### #### | The Implications
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EFFector Online September 11, 1992 Issue 3.04
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
ISSN 1062-9424
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FIGALLO ONLINE AT EFF.ORG
Cliff Figallo became the new director of EFF-Cambridge at the beginning
of the month. Former director of The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (the
EFF's birthplace), Fig is charged with developing and coordinating the
Cambridge office's outreach activities, increasing active EFF membership,
and expanding overall awareness of the EFF's programs in the computer-
conferencing community and the world at large.
Commenting on his new task, Figallo said, "EFF came upon the online scene
a couple years ago with a big splash. I'd like for us to continue
splashing. EFF is uniquely engaged in many useful and important
activities in the areas of online civil liberties, sane lawmaking and
advocacy of improved electronic highways for the future. I want news of
these activities to get out to the people for whom we are making a
difference. I also want us to develop better channels for these same
people to communicate their wants and needs to those of us with access to
the legal, informational and technical resources. Our purpose is to
serve those wants and needs for the betterment of the world.
"More specifically, I will encourage people to become members of EFF
by demonstrating to them the value of a membership. One should expect
noticeable benefits from paying membership dues and I intend to make it
plain that those benefits exist and will only increase as more people
become involved in telecommunications. I will also be working with
regional groups who may be interested in forming local EFF chapters so
that we can learn together how such affiliations can enhance our mutual
effectiveness.
"I'm excited about working here. I believe in what EFF is all about."
Cliff can be reached as fig@eff.org.
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STATEMENT OF BILL CLINTON FOR THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL
AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS (IEEE)
Bill Clinton for President Committee * 1317 F Street, NW, Suite 902 *
Washington DC 20004 Telephone 202-393-3323 FAX 202-393-3329
e-mail correspondence@dc.Clinton-Gore.org
"We face a fundamental economic challenge today: to create a
high-wage, high-growth national economy that will carry America into
the 21st century. We need a long-term national strategy to meet this
challenge and win.
"Our productivity and income have been growing so slowly
because we've stopped investing in the economic infrastructure that
binds our markets and businesses together, in the education and
training necessary to give our workers world-class skills, and in the
research and development that can restore America to the cutting
edge of the world economy. As a nation, we're spending more on the
present and the past and building less for the future. We need a
President who will turn the country around and refocus on the long
view. As President, I will divide the budget into three parts, creating
a separate 'future budget' for the federal government to make
investments that will enrich our country over the long term. Today
the federal government spends only 9 per cent of the budget on
investments for the future; a Clinton Administration will double that.
We will pay for it by diverting resources no longer needed for
defense, but we will ensure that every dollar we take out of military
R&D goes into R&D for civilian technologies until civilian R&D can
match and eventually surpass our Cold War military R&D commitment.
"As President, I will create an investment tax credit and a new
enterprise tax cut that rewards those who invest in new businesses
that create new jobs. I will also make the research and development
tax credit permanent.
"My administration will create a civilian research and
development agency to support research in the technologies that
scientists have already identified as the basis for launching new
growth industries and revitalizing traditional ones over the next two
decades. This civilian DARPA will coordinate R&D to help companies
develop innovative technologies and bring new products to market.
And without inhibiting the competition that drives innovation, we will
encourage and promote collaborative efforts among firms and with
research institutes for commercial development just as we have done
with defense technologies for 40 years.
"A Clinton Administration will create a high-speed rail network
between out nation's major cities. And in the new economy,
infrastructure means information as well as transportation. More than
half the U.S. workforce is employed in information-intensive
industries, yet we have no national strategy to create a national
information network. Just as the interstate highway system in the
1950s spurred two decades of economic growth, we need a door-to-
door fiber optics system by the year 2015; a link to every home, lab,
classroom and business in America.
"For small defense manufacturers hit by cuts in defense
spending, the Small Business Administration will provide small
conversion loans to help finance their transition, and launch a
Technology Assistance Service -- modeled on the Agricultural
Extension Service -- to provide easy access to the technical expertise
it takes to convert to commercial production.
"To enjoy the full benefit of these investments, we must do
everything possible to open up markets now closed to American
products. My administration will provide the leadership for Japan and
the European countries to join us in coordinating our macroeconomic
policies and in reaching multilateral trade negotiations. But we will
also provide the muscle to open up Japan's markets to competitive U.S.
products using a stronger and more carefully targeted "Super 301"
approach. We favor a free and open trading system, but if our
competitors won't play by those rules, we will play by theirs.
"All the investments in the world won't mean much if our
workers don't have the education or the skills to take advantage of the
opportunities they create. My administration will fully fund Head
Start, increase funding for Chapter 1, and provide seed money for
innovative education projects. However, we will also raise standards
by establishing a national testing system in elementary and secondary
schools and instituting report cards for ever state, school district,
and school in the nation, to measure their progress. We will also
create a nationwide apprenticeship program for those young people who
choose not to go to college, and a national trust fund for college loans
for those who do. These loans will be repaid either as a small
percentage of income over time or with a couple of years of national
service.
"With the strategy I have outlined, we can restore the American
Dream by enabling every citizen and every business to become more
productive, and in so doing, restore our nation to the front lines of
high technology.
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ON ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY AND ITS PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS
by Marilyn Davis, Ph.D.
madavis@igc.org
Principal Software Engineer and Founder
The Electronic Democracy Project on EcoNet
President and Princ